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Bob Dylan released the single "Like A Rolling Stone" from the album Highway 61 Revisited 60 years ago today and changed music forever.
The iconic Bob Dylan song is the story of a debutante who becomes a loner when she falls out of high society. It's a crushing blow, but there is an upside: when you got nothing, you got nothing to lose. Another advantage to being on your own: when you're invisible, you have no secrets to reveal. The title is taken from the proverb "a rolling stone gathers no moss." Dylan got the idea from the 1949 Hank Williams song "Lost Highway," which contains the line, "I'm a rolling stone, all alone and lost."
Thanks to The Rolling Stones, many associate the phrase with a life of glamor, always on the move, but Williams' song is about a hobo paying the price for his life of sin.
Dylan also used the phrase to indicate loneliness and despair: his rolling stone is "without a home, like a complete unknown."
