Desire LP

Desire was Bob Dylan's seventeenth studio album, cut in the back half of 1975 with producer Don DeVito and players pulled straight off the Rolling Thunder Revue tour. Playwright Jacques Levy co-wrote seven of the nine songs, and violinist Scarlet Rivera, a woman Dylan spotted on a Greenwich Village street and brought straight into rehearsal, ended up defining the record's sound alongside Emmylou Harris's backing vocals. It topped the Billboard 200, went double-platinum behind the singles "Hurricane" and "Mozambique," and Rolling Stone later slotted it among the 500 greatest albums ever made.