• "The Times They Are a-Changin'" is the title track of Bob Dylan's third album, released in January, 1964.
  • Dylan has said he wrote it "with a purpose" and that he "wanted to write a big song, with short concise verses that piled up on each other in a hypnotic way."
  • It's among his most covered songs, with versions in a variety of genres: then-contemporary rock acts like Simon & Garfunkel, The Byrds, The Beach Boys and The Hollies; jazz-inspired artists like Nina Simone and Josephine Baker; folk singers like Joan Baez, Odetta, Judy Collins, Richie Havens and Burl Ives; later pop stylists like Bryan Ferry, Billy Joel, Phil Collins, Tracy Chapman and Keb' Mo'; and most recently the Celtic-punk-folk band Flogging Molly.
  • Oddly, in the 1990s, the song was used in commercials for the accounting firm Coopers and Lybrand and the Bank of Montreal.
  • In 2010, Dylan's handwritten lyrics to four of the song's verses, jotted on a scrap of paper, were sold at auction for $422,500 to hedge fund manager Adam Sender.