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Fact #61452

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Short story:

Bob Dylan releases Like A Rolling Stone in the USA. At six minutes, it becomes the longest single ever recorded up to this date.

Full article:

Bob Dylan : They cut it in half for the disc jockeys. If anybody was interested they could just turn it over and listen to what really happens.

Keith Richards (guitarist, Rolling Stones) : It goes without saying … Dylan came along and released everyone from that whole three minute thing, not to mention making it unnecessary to use sentiments based around I Want To Hold Your Hand.

Bruce Springsteen : The first time that I heard Bob Dylan, I was in the car with my mother, and we were listening to, I think, WMCA, and on came that snare shot that sounded like somebody had kicked open the door to your mind … Like A Rolling Stone. And my mother, she was no stiff with rock'n'roll, she used to like the music, she listened, she sat there for a minute and she looked at me and she said, 'That guy can't sing.' But I knew she was wrong. I sat there and I didn't say nothing, but I knew that I had listened to the toughest voice I had ever heard.

Frank Zappa : 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.'

Elvis Costello : What a shocking thing, to live in a world where there was Manfred Mann and The Supremes and Engelbert Humperdinck and here comes Like A Rolling Stone.

Steve Harley (Cockney Rebel) : To a pre-pubescent 14 year old who wanted to be Byron or Hemingway, this record was life-enhancing. It seemed to combine the best of the classical poets and greatest prose writers. It was life in word-pictures and Dylan's genius was at last undeniably unleashed. The folk poet/protest singer only ever hinted at this.