Like a Rolling Stone: Bob Dylan at the Crossroads

For the fortieth anniversary of the recording of "Like a Rolling Stone," the definitive biography of the song that caught the questing spirit of its time and overnight changed the rules of the possible in popular music for all time.

The Age July 31 2005

"The fun is in keeping up with Marcus' runaway trains...The song stands alone. So does the book."

Greil Marcus is the author of Lipstick Traces, The Dustbin of History (both from Harvard), and The Shape of Things to Come, The Old, Weird America, Mystery Train, and other books.

Werner Sollors is Henry B. and Anne M. Cabot Professor of English Literature and Professor of African and African American Studies at Harvard University.