10 Most Revolutionary Rock Music Videos

A love-him or loathe-him figure (there seems to be no middle ground) Bob Dylan is one of the most critically celebrated and lauded singer-songwriters in popular music, scooping no less than a Noble Prize for Literature, in 2016.

Dylan changed the game, in terms of lyrics, bringing an entirely new level of poetry and sophistication to folk, pop and rock music. He penned works which sound as old as the hills and as new as the dawn, and remains one of the most-covered artists in music history.

Subterranean Homesick Blues, Dylan's first Top 40 hit in the US, was released in 1965 as the lead single from the album, Bringing It All Back Home. It's a wonderful song, full of scatter-shot imagery and delivered in a compelling, sing-along style.

The track makes this particular list, however, thanks to the accompanying promotional film, which stands as a forerunner to the now-standard music video. The clip also served as the opening to D. A. Pennebaker's ground-breaking documentary, Don't Look Back, which followed Dylan's 1965 tour of England. It's a simple concept – Dylan holds up a sequence of cue-cards, on which are written words from the song (with deliberate misspellings and puns). It was shot in an alley close to the Savoy Hotel, in London, and still works brilliantly today.