On July 25, 1965 Bob Dylan played a brief set at the Newport Folk Festival that evoked boos and changed rock music.
His sin: rocking.
Leading up to the summer of 1965, the singer songwriter had released four folk albums in his fledgling young career: Bob Dylan (1962), The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan (1963), The Times They Are a-Changin’ (1964), and Another Side of Bob Dylan (1964).
But in the spring of 1965 he provided a little foreshading to what would happen that fateful summer night in Newport, Rhode Island, when he released Bringing It All Back Home, an album that on one side contained folk songs with acoustic instruments; but on the flip side, hold your hat, were electric songs.
Those electric tunes, sacrilege to purists who previously held Dylan in the highest regard as a folk protest singer, included “Maggie’s Farm,” the first thing he sang in the set.
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