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{{Infobox song
| name          = Like a Rolling Stone
| image         = Like a rolling stone by bob dylan us vinyl side a.png
| alt           = 
| caption       = Side A of retail US single
| type          = single
| artist        = [[Bob Dylan]]
| album         = [[Highway 61 Revisited]]
| B-side        = [[Gates of Eden (song)|Gates of Eden]]
| released      = {{Start date|1965|7|20}}
| recorded      = June 16, 1965
| studio        = [[Columbia Records#Studio A|Columbia 7th Ave]], New York City<ref name="CONSIDINE">Considine, Shaun, [https://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/03/opinion/03considine.html "The Hit We Almost Missed"], ''The New York Times'', December 3, 2004</ref>
| genre         = [[Folk rock]]<ref>{{cite web|last=Unterberger|first=Richie|author-link=Richie Unterberger|title=Great Moments in Folk Rock: Lists of Author Favorites|publisher=www.richieunterberger.com|url=http://www.richieunterberger.com/turnlists.html|access-date=January 26, 2011}}</ref>
| length        = 6:13
| label         = [[Columbia Records|Columbia]]
| writer        = Bob Dylan
| producer      = [[Tom Wilson (record producer)|Tom Wilson]]
| prev_title    = [[Maggie's Farm]]
| prev_year     = 1965
| next_title    = [[Positively 4th Street]]
| next_year     = 1965
| misc          = {{Audio sample
 | type = single
 | file = Bob Dylan - Like a Rolling Stone.ogg
}}
}}
"'''Like a Rolling Stone'''" is a song by the American singer-songwriter [[Bob Dylan]], released on July 20, 1965, by [[Columbia Records]]. Its confrontational lyrics originated in an extended piece of verse Dylan wrote in June 1965, when he returned exhausted from a grueling [[Bob Dylan UK Tour 1965|tour of England]]. Dylan distilled this draft into four verses and a chorus. He recorded "Like a Rolling Stone" a few weeks later for the album ''[[Highway 61 Revisited]]'' as its opening track.

During a difficult two-day preproduction, Dylan struggled to find the essence of the song, which was demoed without success in [[Triple metre|{{music|time|3|4}} time]]. A breakthrough happened when he recorded it in a [[rock music|rock]] format and the rookie session musician [[Al Kooper]] improvised a [[Hammond organ]] riff.

[[Columbia Records]], unhappy with the song's six-minute length and electric sound, hesitated to release it. A month later, a copy leaked to a popular new music club, and influential DJs encountered it. The song was then released as a single. Although many radio stations initially refused to play such a long track, "Like a Rolling Stone" reached No. 2 in the US [[Billboard charts|''Billboard'' charts]] (No. 1 in ''[[Cashbox (magazine)|Cashbox]]'') and became a worldwide hit.

Critics described "Like a Rolling Stone" as revolutionary in its combination of musical elements, the youthful, cynical sound of Dylan's voice, and the directness of the question "How does it feel?". It completed the transformation of Dylan's image from folk singer to rock star, and is considered one of the most influential compositions in postwar [[popular music]]. ''[[Rolling Stone]]'' listed it at No. 1 on their 2004 and 2010 "[[Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time|500 Greatest Songs of All Time]]" lists.<ref name="RollingStonelist" /> It has been covered by many artists, from [[the Jimi Hendrix Experience]] and [[the Rolling Stones]]<ref>{{Citation|title=Rolling Stone singing Like a Rolling Stone|url=https://www.bitchute.com/video/BWEMnEZ1GTuE/|language=en|access-date=2021-09-10}}</ref> to [[Bob Marley and the Wailers|the Wailers]], [[Cat Power]], [[Titus Andronicus (band)|Titus Andronicus]] and [[Green Day]]. At an auction in 2014, Dylan's handwritten lyrics fetched $2&nbsp;million, a [[List of most valuable celebrity memorabilia|record]] for a popular music manuscript.<ref>{{cite magazine|last1=Blistein|first1=Jon|title=Bob Dylan's 'Like a Rolling Stone' Lyrics Sell for $2 Million; Four-sheet draft includes scratched-out ideas, rhymes and doodles|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/bob-dylans-like-a-rolling-stone-lyrics-sell-for-2-million-20140624|magazine=Rolling Stone|date=24 June 2014|access-date=July 1, 2014|archive-date=27 June 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140627065245/http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/bob-dylans-like-a-rolling-stone-lyrics-sell-for-2-million-20140624|url-status=dead}}</ref>

==Writing==
In early 1965, after returning from the tour of England documented in the film ''[[Dont Look Back]]'', Dylan was unhappy with the public's expectations of him and the direction his career was taking, and considered quitting the music business. He said in a 1966 ''[[Playboy]]'' interview: <blockquote>Last spring, I guess I was going to quit singing. I was very drained, and the way things were going, it was a very draggy situation&nbsp;... But 'Like a Rolling Stone' changed it all. I mean it was something that I myself could dig. It's very tiring having other people tell you how much they dig you if you yourself don't dig {{nowrap begin}}you.<ref>Hentoff, Nat. ''Playboy'', March 1966, reprinted in {{harvnb|Cott|2006|p=97}}</ref>{{nowrap end}}</blockquote>

The song grew out of an extended piece of verse. In 1966, Dylan described its genesis to journalist [[Jules Siegel]]:

{{blockquote|It was ten pages long. It wasn't called anything, just a rhythm thing on paper all about my steady hatred directed at some point that was honest. In the end it wasn't hatred, it was telling someone something they didn't know, telling them they were lucky. Revenge, that's a better word. I had never thought of it as a song, until one day I was at the piano, and on the paper it was singing, "How does it feel?" in a slow motion pace, in the utmost of slow motion following {{nowrap begin}}something. It was like swimming in lava.<ref>Siegel, Jules. "Well, What Have We Here?", ''Saturday Evening Post'', July 30, 1966, reprinted in {{harvnb|McGregor|1972|p=159}}</ref>{{nowrap end}}}}

During 1965, Dylan composed prose, poems, and songs by typing incessantly. Footage in ''Dont Look Back'' of Dylan in his suite at London's [[Savoy Hotel]] captures this process. However, Dylan told two interviewers that "Like a Rolling Stone" began as a long piece of "vomit" (10 pages long according to one account, 20 according to another) that later acquired musical form.<ref>{{harvnb|Heylin| 2009|p= 240}}. Dylan biographer Clinton Heylin speculates that Dylan typed a long piece of "vomit" as "quite possibly a conscious effort to emulate [[Jack Kerouac|Kerouac's]] fabled 'scroll' version of ''[[On the Road]]''".</ref> Dylan has never publicly spoken of writing any other major composition in this way. In a 1966 interview with [[CBC Radio]] in [[Montreal]], Dylan called the creation of the song a "breakthrough", explaining that it changed his perception of where he was going in his career. He said that he found himself writing <blockquote>this long piece of vomit, 20 pages long, and out of it I took 'Like a Rolling Stone' and made it as a single. And I'd never written anything like that before and it suddenly came to me that was what I should do&nbsp;... After writing that I wasn't interested in writing a novel, or a play. I just had too much, I want to write {{nowrap begin}}songs.<ref>Dylan interviewed by Marvin Bronstein, CBC, Montreal, February 20, 1966. Quoted by {{harvnb|Marcus|2005 (1)|p=70}}</ref>{{nowrap end}}</blockquote>

From the extended version on paper, Dylan crafted four verses and the chorus in [[Woodstock, New York]].<ref name="Shelton 1986 279">{{harvnb|Shelton|1986|p=279}}</ref> In 2014, when the handwritten lyrics were put up for auction, the four-page manuscript revealed that the full refrain of the chorus does not appear until the fourth page. A rejected third line, "like a dog without a bone" gives way to "now you're unknown". Earlier, Dylan had considered working the name [[Al Capone]] into the rhyme scheme, and he attempted to construct a rhyme scheme for "how does it feel?", penciling in "it feels real", "does it feel real", "shut up and deal", "get down and kneel" and "raw deal".<ref name="nyt">{{cite news| url = http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/04/30/handwritten-manuscripts-for-dylans-like-a-rolling-stone-to-be-auctioned| title = Dylan's Handwritten Lyrics to 'Like a Rolling Stone' to Be Auctioned|author=Kozinn, Allan|author-link=Allan Kozinn| date = April 30, 2014| access-date = April 30, 2014|work= The New York Times}}</ref> The song was written on an upright piano in the key of D flat and was changed to C on the guitar in the recording studio.<ref name="Creswellp534">{{harvnb|Creswell|2006|p=534}}</ref>

== Recording ==
Dylan invited Chicago blues guitarist [[Mike Bloomfield]] to his Woodstock home for the weekend to learn new material. Bloomfield recalled, "The first thing I heard was 'Like a Rolling Stone'. I figured he wanted blues, string bending, because that's what I do. He said, 'Hey, man, I don't want any of that [[B.B. King]] stuff'. So, OK, I really fell apart. What the heck does he want? We messed around with the song. I played the way that he dug, and he said it was groovy."<ref>{{harvnb|Marcus|2005 (1)|p=110}}</ref>

The recording sessions were held on June 15–16, 1965, in Studio A of [[Columbia Records]] at 799 Seventh Avenue in New York City.<ref name="CONSIDINE" /><ref name="Marcus203">{{harvnb|Marcus|2005 (1)|p=203}}</ref><ref name="Marcus NPR">{{harvnb|Marcus|2005 (2)|p=110}}</ref> Just five months had passed since Dylan had recorded his previous album, ''[[Bringing It All Back Home]]'', with [[Tom Wilson (record producer)|Tom Wilson]] as producer and [[Paul Griffin (musician)|Paul Griffin]] on piano, [[Bobby Gregg]] on drums, and [[Bruce Langhorne]] on tambourine. For the new album, Wilson recruited Griffin, Gregg, and Langhorne, and added Joe Macho Jr. on bass.<ref name="Marcus NPR" /><ref name="irwin3">{{harvnb|Irwin|2008|pp=62–68}}</ref>{{Listen|type=music|filename=Like a Rolling Waltz.ogg
|title="Like a Rolling Stone", 3/4 version|description=The {{music|time|3|4}} "waltz" version of "Like a Rolling Stone", recorded on June 15. This take later appeared on ''[[The Bootleg Series Volumes 1–3 (Rare & Unreleased) 1961–1991]]''.}}

In the first session, on June 15, five takes of the song were recorded in a markedly different style ({{music|time|3|4}} waltz time, with Dylan on piano) from the eventual release. The lack of sheet music meant the song had to be played by ear. However, its essence was discovered in the course of the chaotic session. The musicians did not reach the first chorus until the fourth take, but after the following harmonica fill Dylan interrupted, saying, "My voice is gone, man. You wanna try it again?"<ref name="Marcus234">{{harvnb|Marcus|2005 (1)|p=234}}</ref> The session ended shortly afterward.<ref>{{harvnb|Marcus|2005 (1)|p=210}}</ref> The take was released on the 1991 compilation ''[[The Bootleg Series Volumes 1–3 (Rare & Unreleased) 1961–1991]]''.<ref name="Marcus234" /><ref name="Marcusday1">{{harvnb|Marcus|2005 (1)|pp=203–210}}</ref>

When the musicians reconvened the following day, June 16, [[Al Kooper]] joined the proceedings. The 21-year-old session guitarist was Wilson's guest; he was not supposed to play.<ref name="Marcus104">{{harvnb|Marcus|2005 (1)|p=104}}</ref><ref>{{harvnb|Gray|2006|pp=386–387}}</ref> But when Wilson stepped out, Kooper sat down with his guitar with the other musicians, hoping to take part in recording.<ref name=kooper>{{cite video | people=Kooper, Al|date=2005 |title=[[No Direction Home]]| medium=DVD |publisher=[[Paramount Pictures]]}}</ref> By the time Wilson returned, Kooper, who had been intimidated by Bloomfield's guitar playing, was back in the control room. After a couple of rehearsal takes, Kooper told Wilson he had a good part for the [[Hammond organ]]. Wilson belittled Kooper's organ skills, but did not forbid him to play. As Kooper later put it, "He just sort of scoffed at me&nbsp;... He didn't say 'no'—so I went out there." Wilson was surprised to see Kooper at the organ but allowed him to play on the track. When Dylan heard a playback of the song, he insisted that the organ be turned up in the mix, despite Wilson's protest that Kooper was "not an organ player".<ref name="kooper" /><ref name="Marcus111">{{harvnb|Marcus|2005 (1)|pp=110–111}}</ref><ref name=AKooper>{{cite book |last1=Kooper |first1=Al |title=Backstage Passes & Backstabbing Bastards |date=2008 |publisher=Backbeat Books |location=New York |isbn=978-0-8230-8257-5 |pages=34–36 |edition=Updated}}</ref>

There were 15 recorded takes on June 16.<ref name=irwin>{{harvnb|Irwin|2008|p=72}}</ref> By now the song had evolved into its familiar form, in {{music|time|4|4}} time with Dylan on electric guitar. After the fourth take—the master take that was released as a single{{sfn|Gilliland|1969|loc=show 32, track 3}}—Wilson happily commented, "That sounds good to me."<ref name="Marcusday2">{{harvnb|Marcus|2005 (1)|pp=211–225}}</ref> Despite this, Dylan and the band recorded the song 11 more times.<ref>{{harvnb|Heylin|2009|p=243}}</ref> It was the last song Wilson produced for Dylan.{{sfn|Gilliland|1969|loc=show 32, track 3}}

The complete recording sessions that produced "Like a Rolling Stone", including all 20 takes and the individual "stems" that comprise the four-track master,<ref>{{Cite web|title = Jam in Studio A with Bob Dylan.|url = https://thecuttingedge.bobdylan.com/jam/like-a-rolling-stone|website = Bob Dylan Studio A Revisited|access-date = December 15, 2015}}</ref> were released in November 2015 on the 6-disc and 18-disc versions of ''[[The Bootleg Series Vol. 12: The Cutting Edge 1965–1966]]''.<ref>{{cite web|title=Bob Dylan – The Cutting Edge 1965–1966: The Bootleg Series Vol. 12|url=http://bobdylan.com/thecuttingedge_completetracklisting/|access-date= August 23, 2016}}</ref>

==Themes==
Unlike conventional chart hits of the time, "Like a Rolling Stone" featured lyrics that were interpreted as expressions of resentment rather than love.<ref name=polizzotti1>{{harvnb|Polizzotti|2006|p=33}}</ref><ref name=trager2>{{harvnb|Trager|2004|pp=378–379}}</ref> Author Oliver Trager characterizes the lyrics as "Dylan's sneer at a woman who has fallen from grace and is reduced to fending for herself in a hostile, unfamiliar world". The song's subject, "Miss Lonely", previously opted for easy options in life—she attended the finest schools and enjoyed high-placed friends—but now that her situation has become difficult, it appears that she has no meaningful experiences to define her character.<ref name=trager2/> The opening lines of the song establish the character's former condition:

{{blockquote|<poem>
Once upon a time you dressed so fine
Threw the bums a dime in your prime, didn't you?<ref name=lyrics>{{cite book|title=Bob Dylan Lyrics 1962–2001|author=Dylan, B.|pages=167–168|year=2004|publisher=Simon & Schuster|isbn=0-7432-2827-8}}</ref>
</poem>}}

And the first verse ends with lines that seemingly deride her current condition:

{{blockquote|<poem>
Now you don't talk so loud
Now you don't seem so proud
About having to be scrounging your next meal<ref name=lyrics/>
</poem>}}

Despite the obvious vitriol, the song's narrator also seems to show compassion for Miss Lonely, and expresses joy for her in the freedom in losing everything.<ref name=polizzotti1/> [[Jann Wenner]] commented: "Everything has been stripped away. You're on your own, you're free now&nbsp;... You're so helpless and now you've got nothing left. And you're invisible—you've got no secrets—that's so liberating. You've nothing to fear anymore."<ref>{{harvnb|Polizzotti|2006|p=35}}</ref> The final verse ends with the lines:

{{blockquote|<poem>
When you ain't got nothing, you got nothing to lose
You're invisible now, you got no secrets to conceal<ref name=lyrics/>
</poem>}}

The [[refrain]] seems to emphasize these themes:

{{blockquote|<poem>
How does it feel
How does it feel
To be on your own
With no direction home
Like a complete unknown
Like a rolling stone<ref name=lyrics/>
</poem>}}

Dylan biographer [[Robert Shelton (critic)|Robert Shelton]] gave this interpretation: <blockquote>A song that seems to hail the dropout life for those who can take it segues into compassion for those who have dropped out of bourgeois surroundings. 'Rolling Stone' is about the loss of innocence and the harshness of experience. Myths, props, and old beliefs fall away to reveal a very taxing reality.<ref name="Shelton 1986 279"/></blockquote>

Dylan humorously commented on the song's moral perspective at a press conference at [[KQED (TV)|KQED]] television studio on December 3, 1965. When a reporter, suggesting that the song adopted a harsh perspective on a girl, asked Dylan, "Are you hard on [people in your songs] because you want to torment them? Or to change their lives and make them know themselves?", Dylan replied while laughing, "I want to needle them."<ref>{{harvnb|Cott|2006|p=64}}</ref><ref>{{cite video | people=Dylan, Bob |date=2006
|title=Dylan Speaks: The Legendary 1965 Press Conference in San Francisco| medium=DVD |publisher=[[Eagle Rock Entertainment]]}}</ref>

Commentators attempted to tie the characters in the song to specific people in Dylan's personal life in 1965. In his book ''[[Popism: The Warhol Sixties|POPism: The Warhol '60s]]'', [[Andy Warhol]] recalled that some people in his circle believed that "Like a Rolling Stone" contained hostile references to him; he was told, "Listen to 'Like a Rolling Stone'—I think you're the diplomat on the chrome horse, man."<ref>{{harvnb|Warhol|1980|p=108}}</ref> The reason behind Dylan's alleged hostility to Warhol was supposedly Warhol's treatment of actress and model [[Edie Sedgwick]]. It has been suggested that Sedgwick is the basis of the Miss Lonely character.<ref name="h2g2">{{cite web|url=https://h2g2.com/edited_entry/A23814911 |title=No Direction Home—the Life and Death of Edie Sedgwick|publisher=BBC |date=June 20, 2007 |access-date=June 7, 2008}}</ref> Sedgwick was briefly involved with Dylan in late 1965 and early 1966, around which time there was some discussion of the two making a movie together.<ref name=stein>{{harvnb|Stein|1992|pp=283–285}}</ref> According to Warhol's collaborator [[Paul Morrissey]], Sedgwick may have been in love with Dylan, and was shocked when she found out that Dylan had secretly married [[Sara Lownds]] in November 1965.<ref name=stein/> However, in ''[[The Bob Dylan Encyclopedia]]'', [[Michael Gray (author)|Michael Gray]] argues that Sedgwick had no connection with "Like a Rolling Stone", but states "there's no doubt that the ghost of Edie Sedgwick hangs around ''[[Blonde on Blonde]]''".<ref>{{harvnb|Gray|2006|pp=603–604}}</ref>

[[Greil Marcus]] alluded to a suggestion by art historian [[Thomas E. Crow]] that Dylan had written the song as a comment on Warhol's scene:

<blockquote>
I heard a lecture by Thomas Crow&nbsp;... about "Like a Rolling Stone" being about Edie Sedgwick within Andy Warhol's circle, as something that Dylan saw from the outside, not being personally involved with either of them, but as something he saw and was scared by and saw disaster looming and wrote a song as a warning, and it was compelling.<ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.moreintelligentlife.com/blog/j-gabriel-boylan/qa-greil-marcus-critic-scholar| title = The Q&A: Greil Marcus, Critic, Scholar| author = Boylan, J. Gabriel| date = April 20, 2010| access-date = April 21, 2010| work = More Intelligent Life| archive-date = August 16, 2011| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110816021216/http://moreintelligentlife.com/blog/j-gabriel-boylan/qa-greil-marcus-critic-scholar| url-status = dead}}</ref></blockquote>

[[Joan Baez]], [[Marianne Faithfull]] and [[Bob Neuwirth]] have also been suggested as possible targets of Dylan's scorn.<ref name="My Back Pages"/><ref name=heylin09/><ref>{{harvnb|Williamson|2006|pp=226–227}}</ref> Dylan biographer [[Howard Sounes]] warned against reducing the song to the biography of one person, and suggested "it is more likely that the song was aimed generally at those [Dylan] perceived as being 'phony{{'"}}. Sounes adds, "There is some irony in the fact that one of the most famous songs of the [[folk-rock]] era—an era associated primarily with ideals of peace and harmony—is one of vengeance."<ref>{{harvnb|Sounes|2001|pp=178–179}}</ref>

[[Mike Marqusee]] has written at length on the conflicts in Dylan's life during this time, with its deepening alienation from his old folk-revival audience and clear-cut leftist causes. He suggests that the song is probably self-referential: "The song only attains full poignancy when one realises it is sung, at least in part, to the singer himself: he's the one 'with no direction home.{{' "}}<ref>{{harvnb|Marqusee|2003|p=157}}</ref> Dylan himself has noted that, after his motorcycle accident in 1966, he realized that "when I used words like 'he' and 'it' and 'they,' and talking about other people, I was really talking about nobody but me."<ref name=heylin09>{{harvnb|Heylin|2009|p=241}}</ref>

The song is also notable for the amazing characters who surround the heroine. Andy Gill recalls the strangeness contained in the lyrics: "Who, fascinated fans debated, was Miss Lonely, Napoleon in rags and—most bizarre of all—the diplomat who rode a chrome horse while balancing a Siamese cat upon his shoulder? What on earth was going on here?"<ref>{{harvnb|Gill|1998|p=82}}</ref> The diplomat in question, in the third verse:

{{blockquote|<poem>
You used to ride on the chrome horse with your diplomat
Who carried on his shoulder a Siamese cat
Ain't it hard when you discover that
He really wasn't where it's at
After he took from you everything he could steal<ref name=lyrics/>
</poem>}}

One interpretation was formulated in Jean-Michel Buizard's 2021 essay, ''Like a Rolling Stone Revisited: Une relecture de Dylan'' [French:''A Re-reading of Dylan''], which sheds new light on the possible identity of Miss Lonely and company. The central idea is that in 1965, the young Dylan remained secretly haunted by the country blues, which formed the framework of his first album (''[[Bob Dylan (album)|Bob Dylan]]'', 1962) and of which he would say in 2004 in his ''[[Chronicles: Volume One|Chronicles]]'': "it was a counterpart of myself".<ref>{{harvnb|Dylan|2005|p=240}}</ref> The song is then conceived as a half-historical half-imaginary tale in which the old blues, once sovereign in the Southern countryside, surrounded by its servants, the bluesmen, finds itself alone and abandoned in the 1940s, when these same bluesmen, following the great wave of migration of the black population, left for the cities of the North and founded there a modern blues, electrified and emptied of its roots. Miss Lonely is thus "an allegory of country blues".<ref>{{harvnb|Buizard|2021|p=52}}</ref>

[[Muddy Waters]], author in 1950 of a well-known blues entitled "[[Rollin' Stone (Muddy Waters song)|Rollin' Stone]]", is emblematic of this great history of the blues. He is the one we find as a "diplomat" shouldering his guitar (the "Siamese cat") on the train (the "chrome horse") that took him to Chicago in 1943, where he transformed the blues of his childhood into the city blues that made him famous ("he took from you everything he could steal"). Other legendary bluesmen appear in the song: presumably [[Blind Lemon Jefferson]] as "the mystery tramp" in the second verse and [[Robert Johnson]], "Napoleon in rags", in the final one.<ref>{{harvnb|Buizard|2021|pp=82–89}}</ref>

==Release==
According to Shaun Considine, release coordinator for [[Columbia Records]] in 1965, "Like a Rolling Stone" was first relegated to the "graveyard of canceled releases" because of concerns from the sales and marketing departments over its unprecedented six-minute length and "raucous" rock sound. In the days following the rejection, Considine took a discarded [[acetate disc|acetate]] of the song to the New York club Arthur—a newly opened disco popular with celebrities and the media—and asked a DJ to play it.<ref name="CONSIDINE"/><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.americanheritage.com/articles/magazine/ah/1999/7/1999_7_43.shtml |title=Disco |author=Braunstein, Peter |date=March 5, 1997 |access-date=January 9, 2010 |work=American Heritage |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100205223044/http://www.americanheritage.com/articles/magazine/ah/1999/7/1999_7_43.shtml <!--Added by H3llBot--> |archive-date=February 5, 2010}}</ref> At the crowd's insistence, the demo was played repeatedly, until finally it wore out. The next morning, a disc jockey and a programming director from the city's leading top 40 stations called Columbia and demanded copies.<ref name="CONSIDINE"/> Shortly afterward, on July 20, 1965, "Like a Rolling Stone" was released as a single with "[[Gates of Eden (song)|Gates of Eden]]" as its B-side.<ref>{{harvnb|Krogsgaard|1991|p=44}}</ref><ref name="Guardian">{{harvnb|Marcus|2005 (3)}}</ref>

Despite its length, the song is Dylan's most commercially successful release,{{sfn|Gilliland|1969|loc=show 32, track 3}}<ref name="My Back Pages">{{harvnb|Gill|1998|pp=82–83}}</ref> remaining in the US charts for 12 weeks, where it reached number 2. The song that held it from the top spot was [[the Beatles]]' "[[Help! (song)|Help!]]"<ref>{{cite web|url={{AllMusic|class=artist|id=p4147/charts-awards/billboard-singles|pure_url=yes}} |title=Like A Rolling Stone|work=Allmusic |access-date=October 24, 2009}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|author=Schlansky, Evan|url=http://www.americansongwriter.com/2009/05/the-30-greatest-bob-dylan-songs-2-like-a-rolling-stone/|title=The 30 Greatest Bob Dylan Songs: #2, "Like A Rolling Stone" |date=May 18, 2009 |work=American Songwriter |access-date=May 10, 2010}}</ref> The promotional copies released to disc jockeys on July 15 had the first two verses and two refrains on one side of the disk, and the remainder of the song on the other.<ref name=cb/> DJs wishing to play the entire song would simply flip the vinyl over.<ref name="Marcus3">{{harvnb|Marcus|2005 (1)|p=3}}</ref><ref>{{harvnb|Irwin|2008|p=78}}</ref> While many radio stations were reluctant to play "Like a Rolling Stone" in its entirety, public demand eventually forced them to air it in full.<ref name="Guardian"/><ref name="Irwin 79-80">{{harvnb|Irwin|2008|pp=79–80}}</ref> This helped the single reach its number 2 peak, several weeks after its release.<ref name="Irwin 79-80"/> It was a Top 10 hit in other countries, including [[RPM (magazine)|Canada]], [[Irish Singles Chart|Ireland]], the [[Dutch Top 40|Netherlands]], and the [[UK Singles Chart|UK]].<ref name=rpm>{{cite web |url=http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/rpm/028020-119.01-e.php?brws_s=1&file_num=nlc008388.5644&volume=4&issue=1&issue_dt=August%2031%201965&type=1&interval=24&PHPSESSID=m89iq841abagb37ld9c0fdc1f3 |title=Top Singles&nbsp;– Volume 4, No. 1, August 31, 1965 |work=[[RPM (magazine)|RPM]] |date=August 31, 1965 |access-date=January 13, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111128100513/http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/rpm/028020-119.01-e.php?brws_s=1&file_num=nlc008388.5644&volume=4&issue=1&issue_dt=August%2031%201965&type=1&interval=24&PHPSESSID=m89iq841abagb37ld9c0fdc1f3 |archive-date=November 28, 2011 }}</ref><ref name=irishcharts>{{cite web|url=http://www.irishcharts.ie/search/placement |title=Search the Charts|publisher=Irish Recorded Music Association |access-date=October 27, 2009}}</ref><ref name=dutchcharts>{{cite web |url=http://www.radio538.nl/538/programmas/top40/pdf/pdf.jsp?chartid=5050 |title=Bob Dylan&nbsp;– "Like a Rolling Stone" |format=PDF |publisher=[[Radio 538]] |language=nl| access-date=October 27, 2009| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110617103046/http://www.radio538.nl/538/programmas/top40/pdf/pdf.jsp?chartid=5050 |archive-date=June 17, 2011}}</ref><ref name=ukcharts>{{cite web|url=http://everyhit.com/ |title=UK Top 40 Database |work=everyHit.com |access-date=February 5, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080319091720/http://everyhit.com/ |archive-date=March 19, 2008 }}</ref>

In its contemporary review, ''[[Cash Box]]'' described "Like a Rolling Stone" as a "funky, rhythmic ode which proclaims the artist's philosophy of rugged individualism".<ref name=cb>{{cite magazine |title=CashBox Record Reviews |date=July 17, 1965 |page=12 |access-date=2022-01-12 |url=https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Cash-Box/60s/1965/CB-1965-07-17.pdf |magazine=Cash Box}}</ref>

Besides appearing on ''Highway 61 Revisited'', the song's standard release can be found on the compilations ''[[Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits]]'', ''[[Biograph (album)|Biograph]]'', ''[[The Best of Bob Dylan (1997 album)|The Best of Bob Dylan]]'' (1997), ''[[The Essential Bob Dylan]]'', ''[[The Best of Bob Dylan]]'' (2005), and ''[[Dylan (2007 album)|Dylan]]''. The mono version appears on ''[[The Original Mono Recordings]]''. In addition, the early, incomplete studio recording in {{music|time|3|4}} time appears on ''[[The Bootleg Series Volumes 1–3 (Rare & Unreleased) 1961–1991|The Bootleg Series Vol. 2]]''.<ref name="Marcusday1" /><ref name="Home page">{{cite web |title=Bob Dylan: Like a Rolling Stone |url=http://www.bobdylan.com/songs/rolling.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080517091658/http://www.bobdylan.com/songs/rolling.html |archive-date=May 17, 2008 |access-date=May 18, 2008 |publisher=Columbia Records}}</ref>

==Music video==
In November 2013, forty-eight years after the release of the song, Dylan's website released an official music video for "Like a Rolling Stone".<ref name="RS">{{cite magazine| url = https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/inside-bob-dylans-brilliant-like-a-rolling-stone-video-20131120| title = Inside Bob Dylan's Brilliant 'Like a Rolling Stone' Video| author = Edwards, Gavin| date = November 20, 2013| access-date = May 2, 2014| magazine = Rolling Stone| archive-date = November 21, 2013| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20131121205145/http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/inside-bob-dylans-brilliant-like-a-rolling-stone-video-20131120| url-status = dead}}</ref> Created by the digital agency Interlude, the video is interactive, allowing viewers to use their keyboards to flip through 16 channels that imitate TV formats, including game shows, shopping networks and reality series. People on each channel appear to lip-sync the song's lyrics. Video director [[Vania Heymann]] stated, "I'm using the medium of television to look back right at us&nbsp;– you're flipping yourself to death with switching channels [in real life]."<ref name="Mashable">{{cite web |url=http://mashable.com/2013/11/19/bob-dylan-like-a-rolling-stone-interactive-video/ |title=Bob Dylan's 'Like a Rolling Stone' Interactive Video Mimics TV Surfing |work=[[Mashable|Uncut]] |date=19 November 2013 |access-date=November 19, 2013}}</ref> The video contains an hour and 15 minutes' worth of content in all<ref name=InsideMV>{{cite magazine|last1=Edwards|first1=Gavin|title=Inside Bob Dylan's Brilliant 'Like a Rolling Stone' Video|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/inside-bob-dylans-brilliant-like-a-rolling-stone-video-20131120|magazine=Rolling Stone|date=20 November 2013|access-date=May 27, 2015|archive-date=21 November 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131121205145/http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/inside-bob-dylans-brilliant-like-a-rolling-stone-video-20131120|url-status=dead}}</ref> and features appearances from comedians [[Marc Maron]], [[Carly Aquilino]], [[Jessimae Peluso]], and [[Nicole Byer]], rapper [[Danny Brown]], ''[[The Price Is Right (U.S. game show)|The Price Is Right]]'' host [[Drew Carey]], ''[[SportsCenter]]'' anchor [[Steve Levy]], TV personality [[Nessa]], Jonathan and Drew Scott of ''[[Property Brothers]]'', and ''[[Pawn Stars]]'' cast members [[Rick Harrison]] and [[Chumlee|Austin "Chumlee" Russell]].<ref name="avclub">{{cite web|url=http://www.avclub.com/article/marc-maron-drew-carey-danny-brown-star-in-an-inter-105783|title=Now there's an interactive channel-surfing video for Dylan's 'Like A Rolling Stone'|work=[[The A.V. Club]]|date=19 November 2013 |access-date=November 19, 2013}}</ref> The video was released to publicize the release of a 35-album box set, ''[[Bob Dylan: The Complete Album Collection Vol. One]]'', containing Dylan's 35 official studio albums and 11 live albums.<ref name="RS"/> The ''[[Guinness Book of World Records]]'' recorded it as the longest wait for an official music video.

==Live performances==
Dylan performed the song live for the first time within days of its release, when he appeared at the [[Newport Folk Festival]] on July 25, 1965, in Newport, Rhode Island.<ref name="Newport uncut">{{cite web|url=http://www.uncut.co.uk/features/bob-dylan-like-a-rolling-stone-44089|title=Bob Dylan – Like a Rolling Stone|work=[[Uncut (magazine)|Uncut]]|date=9 May 2005 |access-date=October 27, 2009}}</ref> Many of the audience's folk enthusiasts objected to [[Electric Dylan controversy|Dylan's use of electric guitars]], looking down on rock 'n roll, as Bloomfield put it, as popular amongst "greasers, heads, dancers, people who got drunk and boogied".<ref name="Guardian"/> According to Dylan's friend, music critic [[Paul Nelson (critic)|Paul Nelson]], "The audience [was] booing and yelling 'Get rid of the electric guitar{{' "}}, while Dylan and his backing musicians gave an uncertain rendition of their new single.<ref name="Guardian"/> Al Kooper, who offers a different version of the crowd's reaction, claims that it was due to the length of the set they had just played, being only 15 minutes while other artists had done 45-minute sets.<ref name=AKooper/>

''Highway 61 Revisited'' was issued at the end of August 1965. When Dylan went on tour that fall he asked the future members of [[The Band]] to accompany him in performing the electric half of the concerts. "Like a Rolling Stone" took the closing slot on his setlist and held it, with rare exceptions, through the end of his 1966 "world tour". On May 17, 1966, during the last leg of the tour, Dylan and his band performed at Free Trade Hall in [[Manchester]], England. Just before they started to play the track, an audience member yelled "Judas!", apparently referring to Dylan's supposed "betrayal" of folk music. Dylan responded, "I don't believe you... You're a liar!" With that, he turned to the band, ordering them to "play it fucking loud!"<ref name="Newport uncut"/>{{efn|[[Mickey Jones]]—the drummer for that part of the tour—maintains that it was not Dylan who said to "play it fucking loud", but most likely a member of their British road crew. Jones argues that in footage of the performance, the movement of Dylan's lips does not match the utterance, and that the words were spoken in a British accent (see Jones, Mickey in ''{{harvnb|Down in the Flood}})''.}}

Since then, "Like a Rolling Stone" has remained a staple in Dylan's concerts, often with revised arrangements.<ref name=trager1>{{harvnb|Trager|2004|p=380}}</ref> It was included in his 1969 [[Isle of Wight]] show and in both his reunion tour with [[The Band]] in 1974 and the [[Rolling Thunder Revue]] tour in 1975–76. The song continued to be featured in other tours throughout the 1970s and 1980s.<ref name=trager1/> According to Dylan's official website, he performed the song live over 2,000 times, as of 2019.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.bobdylan.com/songs/rolling-stone/|title=Like a Rolling Stone {{!}} The Official Bob Dylan Site|website=www.bobdylan.com|access-date=July 25, 2019}}</ref>

Live performances of the song are included on ''[[Self Portrait (Bob Dylan album)|Self Portrait]]'' (recorded at the Isle of Wight, August 31, 1969), ''[[Before the Flood (album)|Before the Flood]]'' (recorded February 13, 1974), ''[[Bob Dylan at Budokan]]'' (recorded March 1, 1978), ''[[MTV Unplugged (Bob Dylan album)|MTV Unplugged]]'' (recorded November 18, 1994), ''[[The Bootleg Series Vol. 4: Bob Dylan Live 1966, The "Royal Albert Hall" Concert]]'' (recorded in Manchester, UK, May 17, 1966; same recording also available on ''[[The Bootleg Series Vol. 7: No Direction Home: The Soundtrack]]''), [[The Band|The Band's]] 2001 reissue of ''[[Rock of Ages (The Band album)|Rock of Ages]]'' (recorded January 1, 1972),<ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.bobdylan.com/#/songs/like-a-rolling-stone| title = Like A Rolling Stone| access-date = May 24, 2010|work=BobDylan.com}}</ref> and ''[[The Bootleg Series Vol. 13: Trouble No More 1979–1981]]'' (Deluxe Edition) (recorded June 27, 1981). In 2016, all Dylan's recorded live performances of the song from 1966 were released in the boxed set ''[[The 1966 Live Recordings]]'', with the May 26, 1966 [[Royal Albert Hall]] performance released separately on the album ''The Real Royal Albert Hall 1966 Concert''.

The July 1965 Newport performance of the song is included in [[Murray Lerner]]'s film ''[[The Other Side of the Mirror (film)|The Other Side of the Mirror]]'', while a May 21, 1966, performance in Newcastle, England, is featured in [[Martin Scorsese]]'s documentary ''[[No Direction Home]],'' along with footage of the above-mentioned May 17 heckling incident.

At the 1988 [[Rock and Roll Hall of Fame]] induction ceremony, Dylan performed "Like a Rolling Stone" and "[[(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction|Satisfaction]]" with [[Mick Jagger]] and about 30 other people. In 1998, Dylan performed the song with the [[The Rolling Stones|Rolling Stones]], after opening for them at a concert in Brazil; Jagger introduced the song by saying Dylan had written for them.<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Greene |first=Andy |date=2012-08-30 |title=Flashback: Dylan and Stones Do 'Like a Rolling Stone' |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/flashback-bob-dylan-and-the-rolling-stones-perform-like-a-rolling-stone-58392/ |url-access=limited |access-date=2024-04-06 |magazine=Rolling Stone |language=en-US}}</ref> Jagger repeated the claim during a 2024 Stones concert in Las Vegas.<ref>{{cite web|last=Rolli|first=Bryan|date=May 12, 2024|title=Rolling Stones cover Dylan and add tour debuts in Vegas: set list|work=Ultimate Classic Rock|access-date=May 12, 2024|url=https://ultimateclassicrock.com/rolling-stones-las-vegas-tour-debuts/}}</ref>

==Legacy==
The song's sound has been described as revolutionary in its combination of electric guitar licks, organ chords, and Dylan's voice, at once young and jeeringly cynical.<ref name="Gray413">{{harvnb|Gray|2006|p=413}}</ref> Critic [[Michael Gray (author)|Michael Gray]] described the track as "a chaotic amalgam of blues, impressionism, allegory, and an intense directness in the central chorus: 'How does it feel{{' "}}.<ref name="Gray413"/> The song had an enormous impact on popular culture and rock music. Its success made Dylan a pop icon, as [[Paul Williams (Crawdaddy)|Paul Williams]] notes:

{{blockquote|Dylan had been famous, had been the center of attention, for a long time. But now the ante was being upped again. He'd become a pop star as well as a folk star&nbsp;... and was, even more than the Beatles, a public symbol of the vast cultural, political, generational changes taking place in the United States and Europe. He was perceived as, and in many ways functioned as, a leader.<ref name="Performing artist">{{harvnb|Williams|1991|p=155}}</ref>}}

[[Paul Rothchild]], producer of [[the Doors]]' first five albums, recalled the elation that an American musician had made a record that successfully challenged the primacy of the [[British Invasion]] groups. He said, <blockquote>What I realized when I was sitting there is that one of US—one of the so-called [[Greenwich Village|Village]] hipsters—was making music that could compete with THEM—[[the Beatles]], and [[The Rolling Stones|the Stones]], and [[the Dave Clark Five]]—without sacrificing any of the integrity of folk music or the power of rock'n'roll.<ref>{{harvnb|Marcus|2005 (1)|pp=144–145}}</ref></blockquote>

The song had a huge impact on [[Bruce Springsteen]], who was 15 years old when he first heard it. Springsteen described the moment during his speech inducting Dylan into the [[Rock and Roll Hall of Fame]] in 1988 and also assessed the long-term significance of "Like a Rolling Stone":

{{blockquote|The first time I heard Bob Dylan, I was in the car with my mother listening to [[WMCA (AM)|WMCA]], and on came that snare shot that sounded like somebody'd kicked open the door to your mind&nbsp;... The way that Elvis freed your body, Dylan freed your mind, and showed us that because the music was physical did not mean it was anti-intellect. He had the vision and talent to make a pop song so that it contained the whole world. He invented a new way a pop singer could sound, broke through the limitations of what a recording could achieve, and he changed the face of rock'n'roll for ever and ever.<ref name="Bruce springsteen">{{cite magazine|url=http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1197784,00.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060614165954/http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1197784,00.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=June 14, 2006 |title=Bob Dylan at 65 |last=Corliss |first=Richard |date=May 24, 2006 |magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]] |access-date=May 12, 2008}}</ref><ref>{{harvnb|Bauldie|1992|pp=191–192}}</ref>}}

Dylan's contemporaries in 1965 were both startled and challenged by the single. [[Paul McCartney]] remembered going around to [[John Lennon]]'s house in [[Weybridge]] to hear the song. According to McCartney, "It seemed to go on and on forever. It was just beautiful&nbsp;... He showed all of us that it was possible to go a little further."<ref name="Heylin205">{{harvnb|Heylin|2003|p=205}}</ref> [[Frank Zappa]] had a more extreme reaction: "When I heard 'Like a Rolling Stone', I wanted to quit the music business, because I felt: 'If this wins and it does what it's supposed to do, I don't need to do anything else&nbsp;...' But it didn't do anything. It sold but nobody responded to it in the way that they should have."<ref name="Heylin205"/> Nearly forty years later, in 2003, [[Elvis Costello]] commented on the innovative quality of the single. "What a shocking thing to live in a world where there was [[Manfred Mann]] and [[the Supremes]] and [[Engelbert Humperdinck (singer)|Engelbert Humperdinck]] and here comes 'Like a Rolling Stone{{'"}}.<ref>{{cite journal |first=Elvis |last=Costello |title=What I've Learned |journal=Esquire |date=September 2003}}</ref>

Although CBS tried to make the record more "radio friendly" by cutting it in half and spreading it over both sides of the vinyl, both Dylan and fans demanded that the full duration of the recording should be placed on one side and that radio stations play the song in its entirety.<ref name="Crossroads p145.">{{harvnb|Marcus|2005 (1)|p=145}}</ref> The success of "Like a Rolling Stone" was influential in changing the music business convention regarding the length of singles, whereby they were restricted to durations of less than three minutes. In the words of the magazine ''Rolling Stone'', which took its name from the song and the 1950s blues song "[[Rollin' Stone (Muddy Waters song)|Rollin' Stone]]",<ref>{{cite magazine|last=Wenner|first=Jann|author-link=Jann Wenner|date=November 9, 1967|title=A Letter from the Editor|magazine=Rolling Stone|page=2}}</ref><ref name="Deep">{{Cite book|last=Palmer|first=Robert|url=https://archive.org/details/deepblues00palm/page/104|title=Deep Blues|publisher=Penguin Books|year=1981|isbn=0-14-006223-8|page=[https://archive.org/details/deepblues00palm/page/104 104]|url-access=registration}}</ref> "No other pop song has so thoroughly challenged and transformed the commercial laws and artistic conventions of its time, for all time."<ref>''Rolling Stone'', page 66, issue number 963, December 9, 2004</ref> Richard Austin, of [[Sotheby's]] auction house, said: "Before the release of Like a Rolling Stone, music charts were overrun with short and sweet love songs, many clocking in at three minutes or less. By defying convention with six and a half minutes of dark, brooding poetry, Dylan rewrote the rules for pop music."<ref name="Sale">{{cite news|title=Bob Dylan Like a Rolling Stone lyrics to go on sale|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-27229983|access-date=May 4, 2014|newspaper=BBC News|date=May 1, 2014}}</ref>

In 1966, Dylan told [[Ralph Gleason]]: "Rolling Stone's the best song I wrote."<ref>"The Children's Crusade" by Ralph Gleason, reprinted in {{harvnb|McGregor|1972|p=187}}</ref> In 2004, speaking to [[Robert Hilburn]], Dylan still felt that the song had a special place in his work: "It's like a ghost is writing a song like that, it gives you the song and it goes away. You don't know what it means. Except that the ghost picked me to write the song."<ref>Hilburn, Robert, "How To Write Songs and Influence People" (interview from 2004), ''Guitar World Acoustic'', February 2006, quoted in {{harvnb|Polizzotti|2006|pp=32–33}}</ref>

More than 50 years since its release, "Like a Rolling Stone" remains highly regarded among commentators. James Gerard, writing for [[AllMusic]], characterized the song as "one of the most self-righteous and eloquent indictments ever committed to wax", and declared it significant for beginning a new phase in Dylan's career as a songwriter and performer.<ref>{{Citation |title=Like a Rolling Stone by Bob Dylan - Track Info {{!}} AllMusic |url=https://www.allmusic.com/song/like-a-rolling-stone-mt0033221747 |language=en |access-date=2023-01-04}}</ref> In an analysis of Dylan's vocal performance in "Like a Rolling Stone" published in ''Far Out,'' Sam Kemp highlighted the ironic quality his delivery lent the song, while also praising the ambiguity of the lyrics.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-08-14 |title=Bob Dylan's isolated vocals on 'Like A Rolling Stone' |url=https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/bob-dylans-isolated-vocals-like-a-rolling-stone/ |access-date=2023-01-04 |website=faroutmagazine.co.uk |language=en-US}}</ref>

"Like a Rolling Stone" generally ranks highly in polls of the greatest songs ever written, measured by reviewers and fellow songwriters. A 2002 ranking by ''[[Uncut (magazine)|Uncut]]'' and a 2005 poll in ''[[Mojo (magazine)|Mojo]]'' both rated it as Dylan's number one song.<ref>{{cite web |title=Uncut&nbsp;– Top 40 Dylan Tracks|work=Uncut |date=June 2002 |url=http://www.rocklistmusic.co.uk/uncut.htm#Dylan |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060209230455/http://www.rocklistmusic.co.uk/uncut.htm#Dylan |url-status=usurped |archive-date=February 9, 2006 |access-date=October 16, 2009}}</ref><ref name="Mojo">{{cite web |title=100 Greatest Dylan Songs|work=Mojo |date=November 2005|url=http://www.rocklistmusic.co.uk/mojo_p4.htm#Bob%20Dylan%20Songs |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060214175208/http://www.rocklistmusic.co.uk/mojo_p4.htm#Bob%20Dylan%20Songs |url-status=usurped |archive-date=February 14, 2006 |access-date=October 16, 2009}}</ref> As for his personal views on such polls, Dylan told [[Ed Bradley]] in a 2004 interview on ''[[60 Minutes]]'' that he never pays attention to them, because they change frequently.<ref>{{cite episode |title=Dylan Looks Back|series=60 Minutes|series-link=60 Minutes|air-date=December 5, 2004}}</ref> Dylan's point was illustrated in the "100 Greatest Songs of All Time poll" by ''Mojo'' in 2000, which included two Dylan singles, but not "Like a Rolling Stone". Five years later, the magazine named it his number one song.<ref name="Mojo" /><ref>{{cite web |title=100 Greatest Songs of All Time|work=Mojo |date=August 2000|url=http://www.rocklistmusic.co.uk/mojo.html#100%20Greatest |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051207104904/http://www.rocklistmusic.co.uk/mojo.html#100%20Greatest |url-status=usurped |archive-date=December 7, 2005 |access-date=November 5, 2009}}</ref> ''Rolling Stone'' picked "Like a Rolling Stone" as the number two single of the past 25 years in 1989,<ref>{{cite web |title=The 100 Best Singles of the Last 25 years|url=http://www.rocklistmusic.co.uk/rstone.html#singles |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060211024228/http://www.rocklistmusic.co.uk/rstone.html#singles |url-status=usurped |archive-date=February 11, 2006 |work=Rock List Music |access-date=May 9, 2010}}</ref> and then in 2004 placed the song at number one on its list of the "[[Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time|500 Greatest Songs of All Time]]".<ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.rocklistmusic.co.uk/rstone.html#500Songs| archive-url = https://archive.today/20110718180414/http://www.rocklistmusic.co.uk/rstone.html#500Songs| url-status = usurped| archive-date = July 18, 2011| title = The Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Songs of All Time| access-date = May 2, 2010|work= Rock List Music}}</ref> In 2010, ''Rolling Stone'' again placed "Like a Rolling Stone" at the top of their list of "500 Greatest Songs Of All Time".<ref name="RollingStonelist">{{cite magazine|title = Bob Dylan, 'Like a Rolling Stone' – 500 Greatest Songs of All Time|url = https://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/the-500-greatest-songs-of-all-time-20110407/bob-dylan-like-a-rolling-stone-20110516|access-date = January 3, 2016|magazine = Rolling Stone|archive-date = September 8, 2015|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150908170729/http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/the-500-greatest-songs-of-all-time-20110407/bob-dylan-like-a-rolling-stone-20110516|url-status = dead}}</ref> ''Rolling Stone'' then re-ranked it at number 4 in their 2021 "500 Greatest Songs of All Time" list.<ref name="Rolling Stone">{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/best-songs-of-all-time-1224767/bob-dylan-like-a-rolling-stone-3-1225334/|title=Like a Rolling Stone ranked No. 4 on Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Songs List|magazine=Rolling Stone|date=15 September 2021 |access-date=16 September 2021}}</ref> In 2006, [[Pitchfork Media]] placed it at number 4 on its list of "200 Greatest Songs of the 1960s".<ref name="Pitchfork">{{cite web|url=http://pitchfork.com/features/staff-lists/6405-the-200-greatest-songs-of-the-1960s/2/|title=The 200 Greatest Songs of the 1960s—Part Five: #20-1|work=Pitchfork.com|date=August 18, 2006|access-date=November 21, 2011}}</ref> In 2020, ''[[The Guardian]]'' and ''[[GQ]]'' ranked the song number one and number two, respectively, on their lists of the 50 greatest Bob Dylan songs.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/apr/09/bob-dylans-50-greatest-songs-ranked|title=Bob Dylan's 50 greatest songs – ranked!|first=Alexis|last=Petridis|work=[[The Guardian]]|date=April 9, 2020|access-date=April 17, 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/culture/article/bob-dylan-songs|title=The 50 best Bob Dylan songs of all time|first1=Charlie|last1=Burton|first2=Bill|last2=Prince|work=[[GQ]]|date=June 15, 2020|access-date=April 17, 2022}}</ref>

On June 24, 2014, [[Sotheby's]] sold Dylan's original hand-written lyrics of "Like a Rolling Stone" at a New York auction devoted to rock memorabilia.<ref name="nyt"/><ref name="Sale"/> The lyrics were sold for $2&nbsp;million, a record price for a popular music manuscript.<ref name="Sale"/><ref name =BBCLARS>{{cite news| url = https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-28009344| title = Dylan's Like a Rolling Stone lyrics fetch $2m record| date = June 24, 2014| access-date = June 24, 2014| work = BBC News}}</ref><ref>{{cite news| url = https://www.theguardian.com/music/shortcuts/2014/jun/25/bob-dylans-original-lyrics-like-a-rolling-stone| title = How does it feel – to own Bob Dylan's original lyrics to Like a Rolling Stone?| author = Dowling, Tim| date = June 25, 2014| access-date = June 26, 2014| work = theguardian.com}}</ref>

==Accolades==
{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders"
|+Accolades for "Like a Rolling Stone"
|-
!scope="col"| List
!scope="col"| Publisher
!scope="col"| Rank
!scope="col"| Year of publication
|-
!scope="row" rowspan="2"| 500 Greatest Songs of All Time<ref name="RollingStonelist"/><ref name="Rolling Stone"/>
| ''Rolling Stone'' || 1 || 2010, 2004
|-
| ''Rolling Stone'' || 4 || 2021
|-
!scope="row"| 200 Greatest Songs of the 1960s<ref name="Pitchfork"/>
| [[Pitchfork Media]] || 4 || 2006
|-
!scope="row"| 100 Greatest Rock Songs<ref>{{cite web|title=VH1 – '100 Greatest Rock Songs'|url=http://www.rockonthenet.com/archive/2000/vh1rocksongs.htm|publisher=www.rockonthenet.com|access-date=August 16, 2012}}</ref>
| [[VH1]] || 4 || 2000
|-
!scope="row"| 500 Songs That Shaped Rock<ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.rocklistmusic.co.uk/steveparker/halloffame.htm
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20100219104535/http://www.rocklistmusic.co.uk/steveparker/halloffame.htm
| url-status = usurped
| archive-date = February 19, 2010
| title = Rock and Roll Hall of Fame – 500 Songs That Shaped Rock| last = Henke| first = James| access-date = August 27, 2016| publisher = Rocklist}}</ref>
| Rock & Roll Hall of Fame || || 1995
|-
!scope="row"| The 100 Greatest Songs of All Time<ref>{{cite web| url = https://consequence.net/2012/09/top-100-songs-ever-50-1/full-post/| title = The 100 Greatest Songs of All Time| last = Madden| first = Mike| date = 21 September 2012| access-date = August 27, 2016| website=[[Consequence of Sound]]}}</ref>
| ''[[Consequence of Sound]]'' || 3 || 2012
|-
!scope="row"| The 1001 Greatest Singles Ever Made<ref>{{cite web| url = https://www.discogs.com/lists/1001-Greatest-Singles-Ever-Made/249164
| title = The 1001 Greatest Singles Ever Made| last = Marsh| first = Dave| access-date = August 27, 2016| publisher = Discogs.com}}</ref>
| [[Dave Marsh]] || 7 || 1989
|-
!scope="row"| The 40 Most Influential Records of the 20th Century<ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.inmusicwetrust.com/articles/27f01.html
| title = Gary Pig Gold's Top 40 Most Influential (Pop) Records of the 20th Century!| author = Gary Pig Gold| access-date = August 27, 2016| publisher = inmusicwetrust.com}}</ref>
| [[Gary Pig Gold]] || || 1999
|}

==Personnel==
According to the Dylan researcher [[Olof Björner]],<ref name="OB">{{cite web |last=Björner |first=Olof |author-link=Olof Björner |title=Still On The Road: 1965 Concerts, Interviews & Recording Sessions |url=https://www.bjorner.com/DSN00785%20(65).htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220822153419/https://www.bjorner.com/DSN00785%20%2865%29.htm |archive-date=August 22, 2022 |access-date=August 9, 2024 |website=About Bob}}</ref> except where noted:

*[[Bob Dylan]] – vocals, guitar, harmonica
*[[Mike Bloomfield]] – guitar
*[[Bobby Gregg]] – drums
*[[Paul Griffin (musician)|Paul Griffin]] – piano
*[[Al Kooper]] – organ
*[[Bruce Langhorne]] – tambourine<ref name="Marcus NPR"/>
*Joe Macho Jr. – bass guitar

==Jimi Hendrix Experience versions==
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During the earlier part of his career with [[the Jimi Hendrix Experience]], guitarist [[Jimi Hendrix]] occasionally performed "Like a Rolling Stone" in concert. Hendrix was an admirer of Bob Dylan, and especially liked "Like a Rolling Stone"; "It made me feel that I wasn't the only one who'd ever felt so low", Hendrix explained.<ref name=Lawrencep32>{{harvnb|Lawrence|2005|p=32}}</ref>

A live recording from the 1967 [[Monterey Pop Festival]] is the best known version and was first released in 1970 on the split album with [[Otis Redding]] ''[[Historic Performances Recorded at the Monterey International Pop Festival]]''. Music critic [[Greil Marcus]] described the atmosphere of the Hendrix recording as "Huge chords ride over the beginning of each verse like rain clouds; the tune is taken very slowly, with Hendrix's thick, street-talk drawl sounding nothing at all like Dylan's Midwestern dust storm."<ref name=Marcusp89>{{harvnb|Marcus|2005 (1)|p=89}}</ref> The Experience's performance has been re-released several times, including on ''[[Jimi Plays Monterey]]'' (1986) and ''[[Live at Monterey]]'' (2007) albums and associated DVDs.
<ref>{{cite web |last=Unterberger |first=Richie |author-link=Richie Unterberger |title=Jimi Hendrix: ''Jimi Plays Monterey''{{snd}}Review |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/jimi-plays-monterey-mw0000194107 |work=[[AllMusic]] |access-date=October 16, 2009}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Ruhlmann |first=William | title=Jimi Hendrix: ''Live at Monterey'' |website=[[AllMusic]] |url= https://www.allmusic.com/album/live-at-monterey-mw0000076274 |access-date=October 10, 2021}}</ref>

==Chart performance==
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===Weekly charts===
{| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders"
|+1965 weekly chart performance for "Like a Rolling Stone"
|-
! scope="col"| Chart (1965)
! scope="col"| Peak<br>position
|-
!scope=row|Australia ([[Kent Music Report]])<ref>{{cite book |last=Kent |first=David |title=Australian Chart Book 1940-1969 |year=2005 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=F7KlYgEACAAJ |publisher=Australian Chart Book |location=Turramurra, New South Wales |isbn=9780646444390 |page=218}}</ref>
| style="text-align:center;"|7
|-
!scope=row|Belgium ([[Ultratop]])<ref>{{Cite web |title=Bob Dylan - Like A Rolling Stone |url=https://www.ultratop.be/fr/song/791d/Bob-Dylan-Like-A-Rolling-Stone |access-date=2022-03-30 |publisher=[[Ultratop]]}}</ref>
| style="text-align:center;"|13
|-
!scope=row|Canada ([[CHUM Chart|CHUM]] Hit Parade)<ref>{{cite web |title=CHUM Hit Parade (week of September 13, 1965) |url=http://chumtribute.com/65-09-13-chart.jpg |publisher=[[CHUM Chart|CHUM]] |via=chumtribute.com |access-date=28 June 2022}}</ref>
| style="text-align:center;"|2
|-
!scope=row|Canada ([[RPM (magazine)|''RPM'']]) Top Singles<ref name=rpm/>
| style="text-align:center;"|3
|-
!scope=row|Finland ([[Suomen virallinen lista]])<ref>{{cite book|first=Jake|last=Nyman|year=2005|title=Suomi soi 4: Suuri suomalainen listakirja|edition=1st|publisher=Tammi|location=Helsinki|isbn=951-31-2503-3|language=fi}}</ref>
| style="text-align:center;"|18
|-
!scope=row|Ireland ([[Irish Singles Charts|IRMA]])<ref name=irishcharts/>
| style="text-align:center;"|9
|-
!scope=row|Netherlands ([[Dutch Top 40]])<ref name=dutchcharts/>
| style="text-align:center;"|7
|-
!scope=row|Netherlands ([[Single Top 100]])<ref name=dutchcharts100>{{cite web|url=http://dutchcharts.nl/showitem.asp?interpret=Bob+Dylan&titel=Like+A+Rolling+Stone&cat=s|title=Bob Dylan – 'Like a Rolling Stone' (Nummer)|work=Dutchcharts.nl|access-date=September 11, 2013}}</ref>
| style="text-align:center;"|7
|-
!scope=row|New Zealand (Lever hit parade)<ref>{{cite web | last=Hung | first=Steffen | title=1965 Chart (General) | website=charts.org.nz | date=1965-01-07 | url=https://charts.nz/forum.asp?todo=viewthread&id=47551&pages=3 | access-date=2025-08-16}}</ref>{{better source needed|date=August 2025|reason=User forums and other user generated content are usually not considered reliable sources}}
| style="text-align:center;"|1
|-
!scope=row|Sweden ([[Kvällstoppen]])<ref>{{Cite book|last=Hallberg|first=Eric|title=Eric Hallberg presenterar Kvällstoppen i P3: Sveriges radios topplista över veckans 20 mest sålda skivor 10 Juli 1962 - 19 Augusti 1975|publisher=Drift Musik|year=1993|isbn=9163021404|pages=}}</ref>
| style="text-align:center;"|9
|-
!scope=row|UK [[UK Singles Chart|''Record Retailer'' Chart]]<ref name=ukcharts/>
| style="text-align:center;"|4
|-
{{single chart|Billboardhot100|2|artist=Bob Dylan|rowheader=true}}
|-
!scope=row|US [[Cashbox (magazine)|''Cash Box'' Top 100]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://cashboxmagazine.com/archives/60s_files/1965.html|title=Cash Box Top Singles 1965|access-date=December 31, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090103091406/http://cashboxmagazine.com/archives/60s_files/1965.html|archive-date=January 3, 2009|url-status=dead}}</ref>
| style="text-align:center;"|1
|-
!scope=row|West German [[Media Control Charts|Media Control]] Singles Chart<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.musicline.de/de/chartverfolgung_summary/artist/Dylan%2CBob/single |title=Chartverfolgung&nbsp;– Dylan, Bob |work=Musicline |language=de |access-date=October 27, 2009 |archive-date=June 17, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110617103046/http://www.radio538.nl/538/programmas/top40/pdf/pdf.jsp?chartid=5050 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
| style="text-align:center;"|13
|}
{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders"
|+2016 weekly chart performance for "Like a Rolling Stone"
|-
! scope="col"| Chart (2016)
! scope="col"| Peak<br>position
|-
!scope=row|Sweden Heatseeker ([[Sverigetopplistan]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.sverigetopplistan.se/chart/215?dspy=2016&dspp=42|title=Veckolista Heatseeker, vecka 42, 2016|publisher=[[Sverigetopplistan]]|language=sv|access-date=May 9, 2021}}</ref>
| style="text-align:center;"|18
|}
{{col-2}}

===Year-end charts===
{| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders"
|+Annual chart performance for "Like a Rolling Stone"
|-
! scope="col"| Chart (1965)
! scope="col"| Position
|-
!scope="row"|US ''Billboard'' Hot 100<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.musicoutfitters.com/topsongs/1977.htm |title=Top 100 Hits of 1965/Top 100 Songs of 1965 |website=Musicoutfitters.com |access-date=October 12, 2016}}</ref>
| style="text-align:center;"|41
|-
!scope="row"|US ''Cash Box'' Top 100<ref>{{cite web|url=http://cashboxmagazine.com/archives/60s_files/1965YESP.html|title=Cash Box YE Pop Singles – 1965|date=December 31, 2014|access-date=May 21, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121005101409/http://cashboxmagazine.com/archives/60s_files/1965YESP.html|archive-date=October 5, 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref>
| style="text-align:center;"|38
|}
{{col-end}}

==Certifications==
{{Certification Table Top|caption=Certifications for "Like a Rolling Stone"}}
{{Certification Table Entry|type=single|region=Italy|artist=Bob Dylan|title=Like a Rolling Stone|award=Gold|certyear=2016|relyear=1965|id=3848|access-date=May 5, 2021}}
{{Certification Table Entry|type=single|region=Mexico|artist=Bob Dylan|title=Like a Rolling Stone|award=Gold|certyear=2020|relyear=1965|access-date=May 24, 2020}}
{{Certification Table Entry|type=single|region=New Zealand|artist=Bob Dylan|title=Like a Rolling Stone|award=Platinum|certyear=2022|source=radioscope|access-date=September 25, 2025}}
{{Certification Table Entry|type=single|region=Spain|artist=Bob Dylan|title=Like a Rolling Stone|award=Platinum|certyear=2024|relyear=1965|access-date=September 8, 2024}}
{{Certification Table Entry|type=single|region=United Kingdom|artist=Bob Dylan|title=Like a Rolling Stone|award=Platinum|id=14726-497-1|certyear=2025|relyear=2005|note=sales since 2005|access-date=February 11, 2025}}
{{Certification Table Bottom|nosales=yes|noshipments=true|streaming=true}}

==Notes==
{{Notelist}}

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==Bibliography==
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* {{cite book|editor-first=John|editor-last=Bauldie|title=Wanted Man: In Search of Bob Dylan| publisher=Penguin Books|year=1992|isbn= 0-14-015361-6}}
* {{cite book|language=fr|first=Jean-Michel|last=Buizard|title=Like a Rolling Stone Revisited : Une relecture de Dylan | publisher=Camion Blanc|year=2021}}
* {{cite book|editor-first=Jonathan|editor-last=Cott |title=Dylan on Dylan: The Essential Interviews | publisher=Hodder & Stoughton |year=2006|isbn= 0-340-92312-1}}
* {{cite book|last=Creswell |first=Toby |title=1001 Songs: The Great Songs of All Time and the Artists, Stories and Secrets Behind Them |publisher=Thunder's Mouth Press |year=2006 |isbn=1-56025-915-9}}
* {{cite book|last=Dylan |first=Bob |title=Chronicles: Volume One|publisher=Simon & Schuster |year=2005}}
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* {{cite web|last=Marcus|first=Greil|url=https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4585682 |title=Greil Marcus on Recording 'Like a Rolling Stone' |date=April 11, 2005|publisher=NPR |access-date=November 25, 2010|ref={{SfnRef|Marcus|2005 (2)}}}}
* {{cite web|last=Marcus |first=Greil |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2005/may/13/bobdylan |title=How does it feel? |date=May 13, 2005 |work=The Guardian |access-date=June 16, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150527050802/http://www.theguardian.com/music/2005/may/13/bobdylan |archive-date=May 27, 2015 |url-status=live |ref={{SfnRef|Marcus|2005 (3)}} }}
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{{refend}}

==External links==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20130920223624/http://www.bobdylan.com/us/songs/rolling-stone Lyrics] at Bob Dylan's official website
* [http://video.bobdylan.com/desktop.html Like a Rolling Stone music video] at Bob Dylan website
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20160304094221/http://journal.oraltradition.org/files/articles/22i/Daley.pdf "Vocal performance and speech intonation: Bob Dylan's 'Like a Rolling Stone{{'"}}] by Michael Daley, York University, Toronto
* [https://www.npr.org/2015/11/06/454900076/the-day-dylan-got-it-right "The Day Dylan Got It Right"], ''[[All Things Considered]]'', [[NPR]], November 6, 2015

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[[Category:Songs written by Bob Dylan]]
[[Category:The Jimi Hendrix Experience songs]]
[[Category:The Rolling Stones songs]]