Michael Gray
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Titled Bringing It All Back Home, it aims to reclaim rock and roll for America since the genre's shift to the UK with bands like The Beatles.
Songs like Subterranean Homesick Blues bring a new electric energy, while Side 2 offers acoustic numbers, including Mr Tambourine Man.
But overall it's not an album for folk purists.
Reaching number six in the charts, the album is his most successful yet.
In the spring of 1965, Dylan embarks on a triumphant UK solo tour.
As well as Joan Baez, he's accompanied by a film crew who shoot a behind-the-scenes documentary called Don't Look Back.
The footage shows Dylan running rings around British journalists and holding court with his entourage at the Savoy Hotel, while a forlorn-looking Baez is increasingly ignored.
Eventually she calls it a day and goes home.
Flush with his new commercial success, Dylan buys a rambling house in the hills above Woodstock, New York, where he plans to live with Sarah and the child they're soon to welcome.
Meanwhile, he works at crafting what will become one of his most famous songs, Like a Rolling Stone.
Bruce Springsteen, a teenager in New Jersey, is bowled over by the song, later saying that the opening snare sounded like somebody had kicked open the door to your mind.
Not long after the release of Like a Rolling Stone in July 1965, Dylan performs the song at the Newport Folk Festival, backed by an electric band, sending shockwaves through the folk community.
In November, he quietly marries Sarah and adopts her oldest daughter, Maria, before the couple are joined by their baby, Jesse Dylan, the following January.
But even that's not enough to keep Dylan from the studio or from heading out to perform in Europe and Australia just months later.
Around this time, friends notice that he is looking strung out and thin.
Though he always maintains he can take or leave drugs, when it comes to marijuana, there often seems to be more taking than leaving.
This tour is perhaps most famous for a moment at the Manchester show in May.
Disgruntled by the electric nature of the set, between songs, an audience member heckles Dylan by shouting, Judas.