VIDEO : Bob Dylan's 'Bringing It All Back Home' Was the Cultural Equivalent of a Nuclear Bomb

When Bob Dylan entered Columbia Records' Studio A in mid-January 1965 and blew out an 11-song LP in three days, he didn't merely go electric, invent folk rock and transition from an acoustic troubadour to a boundary-pushing rock & roller. He conjured performances that would completely reimagine how pop music communicated ? not just what it could say, but how it could say it. "Some people say that I am a poet," he wrote coyly in the prose-poem notes on the back cover.