“the man who did to popular music what Einstein did to physics”, even if it initially seems like hyperbole, in reality it is not (Gates, quoted in Detmarr, 2009, p.20) Why was Highway 61 revisited in such a culturally important album? The year is 1965, 8 years since the start of the Vietnam War and 2 years in the shadow of a presidential assassination, marking the beginning of an artistic vision, cut on vinyl. Bob Dylan's reimagining of Highway 61 is a testament to the state of America in the 1960s, using poetic devices and engaging rock and roll music to capture the imagination of a wide range of people, unwittingly, it seems, brought about a change in the minds of Americans. By opening their eyes to what was happening and inflicting a sense of newfound justice in their hearts, living vicariously through the intense imagery of Bob Dylan, due to the events that occurred during that time, people latched onto Dylan's lyrics and I impose my own expression and feelings. his songs. Bob Dylan was considered one of the greatest influences on popular culture of all time, and while influential, Bob Dylan's rise to idol status in popular culture was driven more by historical factors, his life was influenced by many historical events including, The Cuban Missile Crisis, the Vietnam War, the Kennedy assassination, and the Civil Rights Movement, just to name a few. His songs became known as protest songs, despite Bob Dylan's apparent lack of understanding of the meaning the public attributed to his writings. In an interview with Time magazine, Dylan said: "I have nothing to say about the things I write, just write them, I have nothing to say about them, I don't write them for any reason, there's no big message" ", if you want to tell other people then go ahead and say it..... .middle of article ......modernizing physics the way Dylan modernized folk tradition.(Polizzotti,M,2009) , It could also be argued that Dylan is cynically claiming that Einstein helped make the atomic bomb which caused the "hide and cover" propaganda to saturate his childhood, since the early 1950s American schools taught young during the Cold War that the threat of a nuclear attack could be imminent and as a "protection" against this if there was no time to evacuate, look for any nearby structure to duck into and "duck and take cover" to save yourself Civil Protection television station states that there are fires and car accidents, but that we have safety measures that allow us to be ready, and goes on to explain the duck and cover procedure. This type of media was inevitable in the 1950s and had a direct impact on the young Dylan.