Blonde on Blonde

With the apologia for the Church in place, Dylan then asks the fundamental question of Blonde on Blonde, which is the refrain of Sad-Eyed Lady's five stanzas:

Expecting Rain 2008

That transformation took place primarily in the years 1965-66, when Dylan released his great trilogy of albums, Bringing It All Back Home, Highway 61 Revisited, and Blonde on Blonde, and embarked on a world tour with the Band that is often called the greatest rock'n'roll tour of all time.

Bob Dylan: Writings 1968-2010 by Greil Marcus – review 2011

Like this: I am not someone who stays up all night, ever, but when my first book was due and I was just 21 and so scared, I sat at the typewriter until dawn, playing Dylan's Blonde on Blonde over and over as I wrote, and then, as the business day started, I walked the manuscript to my publisher with a confidence I wish I felt every day.

Jesse Kornbluth: Leonard Cohen, At 77, Calls His New CD Old Ideas. It's Anything But Jesse Kornbluth 2012

Like this: I am not someone who stays up all night, ever, but when my first book was due and I was just 21 and so scared, I sat at the typewriter until dawn, playing Dylan's Blonde on Blonde over and over as I wrote, and then, as the business day started, I walked the manuscript to my publisher with a confidence I wish I felt every day.

Jesse Kornbluth: Leonard Cohen, At 77, Calls His New CD Old Ideas. It's Anything But Jesse Kornbluth 2012

Like this: I am not someone who stays up all night, ever, but when my first book was due and I was just 21 and so scared, I sat at the typewriter until dawn, playing Dylan's Blonde on Blonde over and over as I wrote, and then, as the business day started, I walked the manuscript to my publisher with a confidence I wish I felt every day.

Jesse Kornbluth: Leonard Cohen, At 77, Calls His New CD Old Ideas. It's Anything But Jesse Kornbluth 2012

Like this: I am not someone who stays up all night, ever, but when my first book was due and I was just 21 and so scared, I sat at the typewriter until dawn, playing Dylan's Blonde on Blonde over and over as I wrote, and then, as the business day started, I walked the manuscript to my publisher with a confidence I wish I felt every day.

Jesse Kornbluth: Leonard Cohen, At 77, Calls His New CD Old Ideas. It's Anything But Jesse Kornbluth 2012

Like this: I am not someone who stays up all night, ever, but when my first book was due and I was just 21 and so scared, I sat at the typewriter until dawn, playing Dylan's Blonde on Blonde over and over as I wrote, and then, as the business day started, I walked the manuscript to my publisher with a confidence I wish I felt every day.

Jesse Kornbluth: Leonard Cohen, At 77, Calls His New CD Old Ideas. It's Anything But Jesse Kornbluth 2012

The stuff on the recording of Blonde on Blonde is fascinating – how could it not be?

Bob Dylan in America by Sean Wilentz 2010

Others, like Bob Dylan's Blonde on Blonde , with its simple portrait of the artist, did fine in the smaller size.

Design Artwork for a Shrinking Album Cover Steven Heller 2009

Several months later, Dylan released Blonde on Blonde and then stopped touring - after his famous motorcycle accident, which some still suggest was faked to give him an excuse to give up the rigors, and controversy, of the road.

Greg Mitchell: My First Rock Concert: When Dylan Went Electric 2009