0:00 Introduction with Loki (Lie Loki Lie)
1:02 Going electric
2:04 Comparison with Beethoven: the volte-face
3:31 Comparisons with Picasso and Stravinsky
4:20 Breaking with tradition provokes a backlash
5:22 The “Judas” incident
6:36 A change of identity
8:36 Friendship with Allen Ginsberg and the “Long Piece of Vomit”
9:58 Radiant C major
11:00 The Hammond organ and accidental raggedness
12:48 Dylan’s lyrics: a curse and a blessing
13:53 Edie Sedgwick and Marianne Faithfull
14:59 The dark side of the 1960s and Dylan’s own experience
16:43 Returning poetry to its ancient home in music
17:54 The chords mirror the words
19:42 “How does it feel?”
20:28 Dylan’s vocal rhythms, speech-song and Schoenberg
22:48 Mysterious lines and the Faust myth
25:03 Opening the door
This video is about the extraordinary cultural shift that occurred in 1965 when Bob Dylan composed ‘Like a Rolling Stone’. Matthew King discusses Dylan’s change of artistic direction in the wider context of other groundbreaking 20th century artists, and examines the famous song’s structure, poetry and meaning as well as Dylan’s unique vocal delivery.
The quotes from Allen Ginsberg came from this journal: https://www.beatdom.com/allen-ginsberg-and-bob-dylan/
This article was a source of some useful information on ‘Like a Rolling Stone’: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Like_a_Rolling_Stone
Robert Cassard’s excellent analysis of ‘Like a Rolling Stone’ and its recording in 1965 can be seen here: https://youtu.be/R8QOVFsK4Zk?si=N1D3sky4WxM21PMo
The ‘Judas’ incident from the 1966 concert in Manchester can be seen in Martin Scorcese’s excellent documentary film ‘No Direction Home’: https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0074sgc/arena-bob-dylan-no-direction-home-part-2
The live film of Dylan singing ‘Like a Rolling Stone’ from the Newport Festival in 1965 (complete with booing in the audience) can be seen here: https://youtu.be/a6Kv0vF41Bc?si=C9Ao1nuxrB0Ao6Tv
The album recording on of ‘Like a Rolling Stone’ on ‘Highway 61 Revisited’ can be heard here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwOfCgkyEj0
The Music Professor review of A Complete Unknown can be seen here: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/jWzAEL7YA3k
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Commentary and piano: Matthew King
Edited by Ian Coulter