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Like a Rolling Stone · Bob Dylan

Mid-1965. New York City. The sixth floor of 799 Seventh Avenue, Columbia Records headquarters. Columbia is in the middle of a move. The label’s parent company, CBS, has…

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Like a Rolling Stone
Highway 61 Revisited · Columbia · 1965
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