Bob Dylan and the electric revolution...
| Dylan began to grow restless with the Folk community. He began to experiment with wild imagery and symbolist lyrics in his work. He released an album called "Another Side of Bob Dylan" which contained mostly personal songs, both shocking and angering the Folk community. |
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Dylan further angered the folk community at the Newport Folk Festival in 1965. Introduced as "bringing the popular face of folk music to the mainstream", with the crowd roaring with anticipation, Dylan appeared onstage with an Electric guitar. The crowd's roar turned into a silenced hush, and then into Boo's. Dylan sang "I ain't gonna work on Maggie's Farm no more" signifying that he wasn't going to play the protest singer game any more. |
| Dylan would go on to release 3 electric albums in just 20 months: Bringing it All Back Home (with the mystical "Mr Tambourine Man"), Highway 61 Revisited (with the scathing "Like a Rolling Stone"), and Blonde on Blonde (pictured right, which some see as the greatest album of Dylan's career). With the release of Blonde on Blonde, Dylan's stardom increased. Dylan revolutionised the way popular music looked at lyrics, with lines such as "And if you hear vague traces of skipping reels of rhyme, throw your tambourine in time". |
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