DESCRIPTION:
Arena Presents Tales of Rock 'N' Roll - Highway 61 Revisited (1993)

The 4th and final part of BBC Arena's Tales of Rock 'N' Roll series that looks into Bob Dylan's 1965 recording Highway 61 Revisited.

This documentary takes a musical and historical journey down the road itself that starts off at Thunder Bay ending at New Orleans, there are insights into Bob Dylan's early musical interests and experiments with contributions from John Bucklen a teenage friend of Dylan's plus his origins in hometown Hibbing, Minnesota.

Also to add are inspirations to other recordings using the name of the road and the lyrics to Bob Dylan's track that ended up producing one of his greatest albums. Plus investigations into other facts and happenings that took place on Highway 61.

Originally broadcast on 8th May 1993 (BBC2)

This was taken from a repeat broadcast on 6th September 2005 (BBC FOUR)

ALL COPYRIGHT GOES TO THE BBC.