" Desolation Row " is a song by the American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan. It was recorded on August 4, 1965, and released as the closing track of Dylan's sixth studio album, Highway 61 Revisited.

To Desolation Row” Now at midnight all the agents And the superhuman crew Come out and round up everyone That knows more than they do Then they bring them to the factory Where the heart-attack …

"You Belong to Me I Believe" And someone says, "You're in the wrong place, my friend, you'd better leave" And the only sound that's left after the ambulances go Is Cinderella sweeping up on ...

The 9th and final track on Bob Dylan’s highly acclaimed “Highway 61 Revisited”, Desolation Row is a perfect closer, running at just over 11 minutes to sum up every topic discussed in the album...

Across its 11 published verses, the song introduces a rolling cast of characters, including Robin Hood, Cinderella, the Good Samaritan, and Cain and Abel, in a bid to ultimately debase the declining …

In this poem, Eliot comments on what he sees to be a world in social and cultural decline in response to the horrors of World War I. The structure of Eliot’s masterpiece is broken into five highly metaphorical …

Jan 16, 2024 · While rife with overt commentary, the deeper resonance of ‘Desolation Row’ lies in its portrayal of alienation and the search for authenticity. The song is a mosaic of estrangement, where …

Information on Bob Dylan's song Desolation Row . Lyric interpretation, musical roots, live performances, historical context.

Every character who lives on desolation row has defied authority or is in some way different to the box of regular society. Even people such as Cinderella fit this description, having defied her step-mother …

Dylan played the Isle of Wight Festival 1969, and "Desolation Row" was the name given to the hillside area used by the 600,000 ticketless fans at the 1970 event, before the fence was torn down.