From Chapter 2: Another song from Mark's 1967-themed party.
Partygoers were encouraged to come in costume
– 1967 wasn't so far removed from
Cusp's 1975 timeframe, but in many ways it was another era. One guest comes as Bob Dylan. As he leaves, he paraphrases a line from
"Tombstone Blues": "Remember man
– the sun isn't yellow, it's chicken!" He then grabs Karen's friend Gwen and they take off for a night she will regret terribly.
"Tombstone Blues," while unquestionably a quotable classic, wasn't released as a single.
Highway 61 Revisited, the album from which it came, reached number 3 on the
Billboard Album chart in 1965, and spawned the number 2 pop hit "Like a Rolling Stone." (It was probably blocked from the top spot by the Beatles' "Help," but I'd have to check with my friend
Paul Grein to know for sure.)
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