Revisiting Bob Dylan’s first electric concert in Minneapolis
Folk music hero Bob Dylan notoriously switched to electric rock in July 1965 at the Newport Folk Festival, sending shock waves through the music world. Four months later, he headed to Minneapolis for ...
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Garth Hudson, one of the men who helped Bob Dylan go electric, has died
Garth Hudson, the last surviving member of The Band, has died, aged 87. His death was confirmed by the Toronto Star, who ...
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Keyboardist Who Played With Bob Dylan the Night He Went Electric Dies at 83
Barry Goldberg, the blues and rock keyboardist who was part of one of music’s most memorable moments in the mid-1960s, has died. He was 83. Goldberg died on Wednesday, Jan. 22, after a 10-year battle ...
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A brief history of rock music: part one
In the early 60s, California was a leading light of the electric guitar with a number of acts moving away from rock’n’roll towards surf music. The most commercially successful act at the time ...