Search

Home > HistoryPod > 25th July 1965: Bob Dylan goes electric at the Newport Folk Festival
Podcast: HistoryPod
Episode:

25th July 1965: Bob Dylan goes electric at the Newport Folk Festival
Category: Society & Culture
Duration: 0
Publish Date: 2017-07-24 21:05:01
Description: On the 25th July 1965, American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan performed at the Newport Folk Festival with an electric band. His dramatic shift away from his traditional instruments of acoustic guitar and harmonica was said to have, “electrified one half of his audience, and electrocuted the other”. Dylan came to prominence in the early years of the 1960s with songs that chronicled the social situation in the USA at the time. Labelled as the “spokesman of a generation” by the media he had released four acoustic albums in the first three years of his recording career. But, in March 1965, Bringing ...
Total Play: 0

Users also like

100+ Episodes
Chips with e .. 50+     9
700+ Episodes
Desert Islan .. 2K+     90+
200+ Episodes
Learn Spanis .. 1K+     100+
90+ Episodes
LSE IQ podca .. 90+     10+
100+ Episodes
ITV 6 Nation .. 20+     1