Like RIAA in the U. BPI in the United Kingdom certifies recorded music based on sales. BPI certified Dylan’s Like a Rolling Stone GOLD – of course. From his album, Highway 61 Revisited, “. Rolling Stone” is the most iconic FOLK/ROCK song of all time. In fact, Rolling Stone Magazine as the award’s dedication plaque denotes, voted it the GREATEST SONG OF ALL TIME. That’s saying something as Mr. Kittinger’s gold & platinum awards (which he made over his 50 years in the music industry) reflects in other dedication plaques, songs rank for example, . Rolling Stone Magazine voted this song # 256 of the Greatest 500 Songs of All Time. ” Anything in the top 100 of Rolling Stone’s list would be considered a “monster hit, such as Thriller, or Lennon’s Imagine. You get the picture. Award comes with very nice framed photo with reproduced autograph of Bob at Nobel ceremony. Like a Rolling Stone is the story of a debutante who becomes a loner when she falls out of high society. It’s a crushing blow, but there is an upside: when you got nothing, you got nothing to lose. Another advantage to being on your own: when you’re invisible, you have no secrets to reveal. Those who love Dylan were not surprised when he won the Nobel Prize for Literature. Dylan fans lost their minds with delight, while defenders of the sanctity of high culture dropped the. Ir jaws and tried to protest in those voices that sounded like their teeth were superglued together. Alas, some journalists opined that we should think about it like this: In Shakespeare’s moment in time, his plays were today’s Breaking Bad and Mozart was today’s Freddie Mercury’s heart-stopping performance at the Aids Concert. Bob Dylan created a paradigm shift in cultural change in America. I became a rock DJ and then transitioned into eventually becoming a network broadcast journalist who had a different perspective of life at large. I adore Bob Dylan and his namesake, Irish poet, Dylan Thomas. Radio stations – by and large – did not like the idea of playing a 6-minute and 13-second record on the air. Too long, and that alone kept….. Rolling Stone from topping the charts HERE as it did in a dozen other countries. This is a rare award made for the Brit’s by Ken Kittinger, the premier gold & platinum awards maker for five decades. His passing in 2016 was noted in Billboard Magazine. You can google: Ken Kittinger Gold Records and get a bit more about him. He was my father, and he left more than 5,000 items of memorabilia in his Music Row estate in Nashville. BLACK TEXTURED LEATHER BACKING. Painstakingly searching through three storage units of box after box of his treasures, I just came across these. As with all of my listings, I don’t charge what they’re worth. Packed with extreme care and an “Estate COA” is included. Please provide the award recipient’s name for the Certificate of Authenticity.