Great rock 'trilogy
In summer 1965, Dylan releases his first full-fledged rock album - «Highway 61 Revisited». For several years the world of rock music digest the revolutionary charge of the plate. As a major literary magazines began to appear article deals with the words of songs Dylan. Estimated that from 1964 to 1966 more than a hundred different artists perepevali of his new songs. Exit «Highway 61 Revisited» preceded by the single «Like a Rolling Stone» (preview snippet) (2 nd place in the United States), which was also revolutionary in many respects. In addition to penetrating poetic text and a powerful rock-n-rollnogo bits, the single shestiminutny put an end to the era when singles not released the songs in excess of three minutes. In 2004, this song took the lead on a survey compiled by Rolling Stone magazine list of 500 best songs of all time. (In a similar list Album «Highway 61 Revisited» ranked fourth).
Since autumn 1965 and spring of 1966, Dylan was a very busy tour schedule. At the same time developed a stormy affair with the actress of the studios start Andy Warhol - Edie Sedzhvik, about which, apparently, was written by his outstanding ballad «Just Like a Woman». Singer felt that for a large-scale rock-tour he needs a decent team of musicians. In autumn 1965 he began touring with a blues band The Hawks ( «hawks»), which soon changed its name to The Band ( «team») and with great success accompanied him for years. The most intense out of British tour in which Dylan played his most famous concert in Manchester, during which someone in the crowd shouted him «Judas!» (Hint to his departure from the early sixties protest hymns), to which members The Band brilliantly answered wild-violent execution «Like a Rolling Stone». Until 1998, the record of this historic concert was only available as a bootleg. The same applies to the many wonderful songs that Dylan performed at concerts, but that was not destined to enter his studio albums.
In May 1966, went double-album rock Dylan - «Blonde on Blonde», which in many developing theme of the previous two. Himself a musician described the sound of the album as «that wild, thin mercury sound» ( «that wild, mercurial sound refined»). It soon became talk of the existence in his work a kind of rock-trilogy ( «Bringing It All Back Home», «Highway 61 Revisited», «Blonde on Blonde»), which is considered his greatest achievement and one of the biggest events in American culture of XX - th century. Between the rock critics long tail away dispute which of the trilogy of albums should be considered the peak dilanovskogo creativity.