Happy Anniversary, Mr. Jones

Forty years ago today, August 30, 1965, Bob Dylan released the album Highway 61 Revisited.  It went on to peak at number 3 on the Billboard album charts, but it will finish fourth on Rolling Stone’s list of the top albums of all time.  From Ballad of a Thin Man:

You’ve been with the professors
And they’ve all liked your looks
With great lawyers you have
Discussed lepers and crooks
You’ve been through all of
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s books
You’re very well read
It’s well known

Because something is happening here
But you don’t know what it is
Do you, Mister Jones?

[Frank Snyder]