Blonde on Blonde is the seventh studio album by American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan. It was released as a double album on June 20, 1966 by Columbia Records. The album peaked at number nine on the Billboard 200 chart in the US, where it eventually was certified double platinum, and it reached number three in the UK. Critics often rank it as one of the greatest albums of all time. It is on Rolling Stone’s 500 Greatest Albums of All Time list.
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Blonde on Blonde is the seventh studio album by American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan. It was released as a double album on June 20, 1966 by Columbia Records. The album peaked at number nine on the Billboard 200 chart in the US, where it eventually was certified double platinum, and it reached number three in the UK. Critics often rank it as one of the greatest albums of all time. It is on Rolling Stone’s 500 Greatest Albums of All Time list. Two of the songs on the album have been named as among Dylan’s greatest compositions and were featured in Rolling Stone’s 500 Greatest Songs of All time list. The song “I Wanna Be Your Lover’’ was later retitled “Visions of Johanna” and appeared on the 1985 box set, Biograph Out Of The Blue. The single “Rainy Day Women No. 12 & 35” was a top-twenty hit in the U.S. and the UK, and was the first single to reach the top ten in both countries. The track “One of Us Must Know” has been described as “a unique mixture of the visionary and the colloquial’”. The song was recorded in New York in October 1965 with numerous backing musicians, including members of Dylan’s live backing band, the Hawks. The sessions continued until January 1966, but yielded only one track that made it onto the final album. In February and March all the remaining songs for the album were recorded in Nashville, Tennessee, with some of Nashville’s top session musicians.
The songs were recorded with the help of a touring band, Levon Helm, Robbie Robertson, Rick Danko, Richard Manuel and Garth Hudson. The band was formed in Canada by John Hammond, Jr. and Mary Martin, who had signed Dylan to Columbia Records in 1961. Dylan’s manager, Albert Grossman, was in the process of setting up a grueling concert schedule that would keep Dylan on the road for the next nine months, touring Australia, Europe, and the United States. In 1999, the album was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame and it is on the Rolling Stone list of the top 10 greatest albums ever recorded, along with Bringing It All Back Home, Highway 61 Revisited, and The Beatles’ Crawl Out Your Window? Three further songs were attempted, but none progressed into completed songs. They concentrated on a new arrangement of “Can You Please Pleaserawl Out your Window?”, a song recorded during the Highway 61 revisited sessions but not included on album. Three further tracks were recorded, butNone progressed into a completed song, but one became “Freeze Out Your Man”. On November 30 the Hawks joined Dylan again at Columbia Studio A, but drummer Gregg Helm had tired of playing in a backing band and quit. They began a new composition, “Temporary Like Achilles Like Achilles’”, which later evolved into a song that evolved into “Medicine Sunday”
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