History Highlight:

Today in 1965, Bob Dylan's second "electrified" album, Highway 61 Revisited, was released by Columbia. "Like A Rolling Stone" and "Ballad Of A Thin Man" were among the nuggets on this soon-to-be classic record. Dylan named the album after the major American highway which connected his birthplace, Duluth, Minnesota, to southern cities famed for their musical heritage, including St. Louis, Memphis, New Orleans, and the Delta blues area of Mississippi. The album was ranked number four on Rolling Stone's "500 Greatest Albums of All Time".

Also, Today In:

1965 - The King played host to The Beatles, the "successors to the throne," in one of rock's great awkward four-hour meetings at Elvis Presley's Bel Air mansion.

1982 - Robert Plant's first solo album, Pictures At Eleven, was riding high in its fifth straight week in the Top 10.

1995 - Pearl Jam s
erved as Neil Young's back-up band at the Redding Festival in Britain.

Birthdays:

Sarah Neufeld, the violist for Arcade Fire, is 35 today.