At the Newport Folk Festival, Bob Dylan surprises the audience with his hard-rocking set. Accounts vary as to whether the crowd was unhappy over his new style of music or over the quality of the sound system.
-- Photo from Michael Ochs Archives
* Summary (www.history.com): @* Summary (www.smithsonianmag.com): @
* Set list (www.bobdylan.com): @
* Excerpt from "No Direction Home: The Life and Music of Bob Dylan" (Robert Shelton, 1986): @
* "No Direction Home": @
* "Newport: It's All Right, Ma, I'm Only Playing R & R" (The Village Voice, August 5, 1965): @
* "The Legend of Dylan at Newport" (Sam Allis, The Boston Globe, 2002): @
* "Dylan Goes Electric! Newport, Seeger, Dylan, and the Night That Split the Sixties" (Elijah Wald, 2015): @
* "Newport: It's All Right, Ma, I'm Only Playing R & R" (The Village Voice, August 5, 1965): @
* "The Legend of Dylan at Newport" (Sam Allis, The Boston Globe, 2002): @
* "Dylan Goes Electric! Newport, Seeger, Dylan, and the Night That Split the Sixties" (Elijah Wald, 2015): @
* "Dylan at Newport, 1965: Music, Myth and Un-Meaning" (Edward Renehan, 2015): @
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