Bob Dylan: Like The Night (Music) - Softcover

Lee, C P

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9781900924078: Bob Dylan: Like The Night (Music)

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ISBN 10: 1900924072 ISBN 13: 9781900924078

Publisher: Helter Skelter Publishing, 1998

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In the early 60s, Bob Dylan was the protest singer who with anthems like The Times They are a Changing' and Blown' in the Wind, personified the folk music revival. Then in 1966 at the height of his popularity he plugged in an electric guitar and merged his poetic lyrics with the sound of one of the great rock 'n' roll bands. The rock world was delighted, but the folk scene felt outraged and betrayed. That summer Dylan toured the world, and every show was accompanied by frenzied booing and catcalls - culminating at the Manchester Free Trade Hall where fans called him Judas. This book is a document of that legendary world tour where Dylan waged a nightly war with his audience, and reinvented rock 'n' roll with an incendiary zeal never subsequently equalled. It also gives a minute by minute account of the much bootlegged legendary Manchester show that was finally released in 1998 as Dylan's Bootleg Series Volume 4.

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It remains the most divisive moment in the history of rock 'n' roll--and yes, it really does merit a whole book: the night in 1966 that Bob Dylan was branded a "Judas". Dylan had always marched to his own tune, but that controversial tour when he appeared with a rock band was seen by purists as an unforgivable betrayal of his folk roots. In hindsight the music he made with The Band was among the most incendiary ever played on stage, but the concerts divided audiences like never before--and over the years, enshrined on bootlegs, the tour has taken its place in rock myth.

For 30 years the bitter shout of "Judas" was believed to have taken place at the Royal Albert Hall, until C P Lee, in a piece of commendable research, traced the incident back to the Manchester Free Trade Hall. To prove his point, he also tracked down and interviewed ushers, fans and critics who had witnessed it all at first hand--providing one of the few genuinely illuminating and enthralling Dylan books to have emerged in recent years. "Dylan was perhaps the only barometer that you possessed", Lee writes. "We needed to know more. Malcolm, Paul, Kath, Barbara, Tricia, Tim, myself and a hundred thousand others looked to Dylan for a signal, a sign." Then, as now. --Patrick Humphries

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"CP Lee was there, but the point is that he can put you there too." -- Greil Marcus

"Essential Reading" -- Uncut

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