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Highway 61 Revisited is the sixth studio album by the American singer-
songwriter Bob Dylan, released in August 1965. Having until then
recorded mostly acoustic music, Dylan used rock musicians as his backing
band on every track of the album, except for the closing 11-minute
ballad, "Desolation Row". Critics have focused on the innovative way in
which Dylan combined driving, blues-based music with the subtlety of
poetry to create songs that captured the political and cultural chaos of
contemporary America. Leading with the single "Like a Rolling Stone" (a
top-10 hit in several countries), the album features songs that Dylan
has continued to perform live over his long career, including "Ballad of
a Thin Man" and "Highway 61 Revisited". He named the album after the
major North American highway connecting his birthplace, Duluth,
Minnesota, to southern cities famed for their musical heritage,
including St. Louis, Memphis, and New Orleans. The album, which peaked
at No. 3 in the United States charts and No. 4 in the United Kingdom,
was ranked No. 4 on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.
"Like a Rolling Stone" was listed at No. 1 on Rolling Stone's 500
Greatest Songs of All Time list.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highway_61_Revisited>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1874:
In one of the longest cases ever heard in an English court, the
defendant was convicted of perjury for attempting to assume the identity
of the heir to the Tichborne baronetcy.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tichborne_case>
1893:
USS Indiana (pictured), the lead ship of her class and the
first battleship in the United States Navy comparable to foreign
battleships of the time, was launched.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Indiana_(BB-1)>
1972:
Japanese police stormed a mountain lodge near Karuizawa, Nagano
prefecture, to end a ten-day siege by members of the paramilitary group
United Red Army.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asama-Sans%C5%8D_incident>
1975:
In London an underground train failed to stop at Moorgate
terminus station and crashed into the end of the tunnel, killing 43
people.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moorgate_tube_crash>
2002:
During the 2002 Gujarat violence in India, mobs of Hindus
attacked Muslims in Naroda Patiya and Chamanpura, resulting in 166
deaths.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulbarg_Society_massacre>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
compere:
(chiefly UK) A master of ceremonies in a television, variety or quiz
show. Also used more generally for any master of ceremonies.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/compere>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
My single pair of eyes Contain the universe they see; Their mirrored
multiplicity Is packed into a hollow body Where I reflect the many, in
my one.
--Stephen Spender
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Stephen_Spender>