The 2024 Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown introduced the history of the Newport Folk Festival to an entirely new generation of music fans. But recreations of the 1963, 1964, and 1965 festivals were ...
“Newport & the Great Folk Dream” is a rapturous documentary — elegant and transporting, full of scratchy lyrical black-and-white images and performances that have a timeless power. The movie tells the ...
The Timothée-led biopic (which might win him his first Oscar) covers the music icon's early career years—so how much of it was accurate? We pulled some original evidence for you to judge.
The recent Oscar-nominated film A Complete Unknown drew renewed attention to Bob Dylan’s historic performance at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival, where he caused a stir by performing with an electric ...
Bob Dylan quickly learned that the Newport reaction to his new electric sound was not an isolated incident. He’d be met with an even more violent reaction while performing on Aug. 28, 1965 at the ...
Today, Bob Dylan is considered one of the most influential cultural figures of his time. But you wouldn’t have seen that coming had you seen him getting booed onstage at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival ...
The Bob Dylan Museum in Tulsa, Okla., has announced a new exhibit, titled “Going Electric: Bob Dylan ‘65.” The historic offering of multimedia items and reference points will be on view from July 24, ...
Beginning with the 1956 78 RPM acetate of a 15-year-old Bob Zimmerman playing with his friends in The Jokers, Through the Open Window, 1956-1963 follows the artist who becomes Bob Dylan as he leaves ...