Tommy’s Coffee Break Calendar for June 16th

Two truly classic singles and one album of monstrous influence...really...

6/16/1965 (51 years ago today) - Bob Dylan records "Like A Rolling Stone" for his forthcoming "Highway 61 Revisited" album at Columbia Studios in New York City. At 6-minutes-and-13-seconds, by 1965 standards, it was wa-aa-yyy too long to be played on the radio...but it was also too powerful to ignore; four weeks later, it would peak at No. 2 on the Billboard chart.

6/16/1967 (49 years ago today) - Pink Floyd released their second single "See Emily Play", which was written by founding member/front man Syd Barrett. The slide guitar sound on the song was done by Syd using a plastic ruler. Of course.

6/16/1972 (44 years ago today) - David Bowie released his fifth studio album "The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars". Because vaguely conceptual observations of fictional bisexual alien rock stars were just what the public expected. From opener "Five Years", to closer "Rock And Roll Suicide", it's an absolutely perfect and compelling masterwork that no one -- NO ONE ELSE -- could have possibly pulled off. Still sounds amazing...

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"My brain hurt like a warehouse/It had no room to spare...", xoxo!