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...That would have been the summer of 1965; the song, the rock ballad "Like a Rolling Stone." But Springsteen came late to Dylan, as did Martin Scorsese, director of last year's Dylan documentary No Direction Home, who acknowledged that he was ignorant of the singer's folk period and only caught on when Bobby D. went electric. By then, Dylan was already nearing the end of his artistic prime - a five-year stretch from 1961 to '66, when he revolutionized first folk, then rock, infusing his music with astringent, haunting imagery that fully justified critic Richard Goldstein...
...sides of a single: Cozy Cole's"Topsy," Ray Charles'"What'd I Say," the Isley Brothers' "Twist and Shout" and, in the early 50s, Johnny Standley's comedy homily "It's in the Book." But the 1965 "Like a Rolling Stone" was, I believe, the first epic rock ballad issued as a one-side, 6min. single. (Within two years, Richard Harris' "MacArthur Park and the Beatles' "Hey, Jude" went Dylan one minute longer, though not better...
...told she's no longer the group's lead singer; her resentment is momentarily soothed by the others' singing that they're all one "Family." Then Beyoncé gets the star treatment - a photo montage worthy of Audrey Hepburn's in Funny Face - and Foxx sings the love ballad "When I First Saw You." Finally comes the title number, put over in sensational style and with de luxe production values...
...Henry Krieger, who composed the original score to Tom Eyen's lyrics, has written four new songs with different lyricists. (Eyen died of AIDS 15 years ago this week.) Hudson gets another tune; Murphy has a Marvin Gaye-style protest number, "Patience"; Beyoncé has a second-act ballad; and there's a playful homage to the Jackson Five...
...touring Europe. They don't subscribe to Foreign Affairs, but they are daily newspaper readers who back up their positions with a solid understanding of current events. It struck them as natural that in front of a largely antiwar crowd in London, Maines would preface Travelin' Soldier, an apolitical ballad about a heartsick Vietnam G.I., with a reference to the world outside the theater. As Maines spoke, though, Robison admits, "I got hot from my head to my toes--just kind of this rush of 'Ohhh, s___.' It wasn't that I didn't agree with...