Dylan’s Newport Performance Was a Great Political Drama

Bob Dylan’s electric set at the Newport Folk Festival in July 1965 was to become, in Clinton Heylin’s words, “the most written about performance in the history of rock.” And not without cause. Dylan’s clash with the constituency from which he’d emerged, including individuals who’d sponsored his early career, was high Oedipal drama, marked by overreaction on all sides.

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