Too young to get into it when it first came out it sure created an enormous impression when I started listening to Dylan in the Seventies. One of Dylan's big put down songs it just seemed totally in tune with the changing times of the mid sixties. And I really was into sixties music. Even though I was there at the time I was a bit too young to realise what was going on. So in the early seventies I started going back. There was this magazine that came out that over a period of time built up to be an encyclopeadia of rock and pop. It was called The Story of Pop. And I bought every issue, devouring all the information. Just some of the images of the musicians from the sixties did for me. Dylan in his pomp and prime doing Rolling Stone while crowds booed him. Marvellous. Never understood it though. The single was already number one when all this happened.
Then when I bought NME it would regularly appear as the number one single ever in all the polls. It's definitely a contender. How many times have I sang with a bunch of mates "how does it feel?" at the top of my lungs. Many many times. And we knew all the words. I was in Munich in 1991 and the DJ put this on in a club and the reaction blew me away. The whole crowd singing. Very loudy. Probably gave me some ideas for the Lizard.
Brilliant!
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