Once Upon A Time

Tomorrow, 25th July 2015, marks 50 years since Bob Dylan‘went electric’ at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival.

Dylan made history when he plugged in his FenderStratocaster and launched into an electrified version of ‘Maggie’s Farm’. Theboos from the audience were so loud they drowned out the next two songs – his now-iconicsingle, ‘Like A Rolling Stone’ and ‘Phantom Engineer’, which was later releasedas ‘It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Take a Train to Cry’. Whether this reaction wasdue to a sense of betrayal or the poor quality of the festival's amplification is debatable, but there’s no doubt this appearance rocked the music world.

‘I thought Dylan going electric was a natural progression; Icouldn’t see what all the fuss was about. I actually thought that it was abouttime that he was heard!’ – Ronnie Woodin HOW CAN IT BE? A ROCK & ROLL DIARY

Pictured left: Dylan at Newport Folk Festival on 26th July1963. This photograph by Jim Marshall is one of only three remaining in Dylan’ssigned BEHIND THE PICTURE FRAME series.To view the collection of fine art prints and order yours today, click here.