Even then, fans knew it was a historic moment. By Alan Light On the night of Sunday, July 25, 1965, Bob Dylan appeared at the Newport Folk Festival. He played a Fender electric guitar, and he was ...

"A Complete Unknown" stars Timothée Chalamet as Bob Dylan during his rise to fame in the '60s. The movie's climax is Dylan's performance at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival. Dylan performed with an ...

WARNING: SPOILERS ahead for A Complete Unknown. Bob Dylan had a historic and controversial electric performance at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival in real life and in the new biopic A Complete Unknown.

One of the biggest controversies in music history is when Bob Dylan went electric at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival. This moment not only marked a major moment in music history, but also a major ...

It was Seeger that Bob Dylan was offered a spot at the renowned Newport Folk festival, “Pete Seeger, more than any of the other board members, had a personal connection with Bob Dylan ...

The recent Oscar-nominated film A Complete Unknown drew renewed attention to Bob Dylan’s historic performance at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival, where he caused a stir by performing with an ...

When Newport Folk Festival historian and author Rick Massimo walked into a movie theater to see “A Complete Unknown,” starring Timothee Chalamet as Bob Dylan, he assumed he would have to suspe ...

Chronicles Bob Dylan's appearances at the Newport Folk Festival. This program chronicles Bob Dylan's appearances at the Newport Folk Festival with full-length song performances, including his ...

That number comes courtesy of the instrument’s provenance: It was played by the guitarist Mike Bloomfield during Bob Dylan’s set at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival, when Dylan infamously opted ...

This year’s Newport Folk Festival ... Beck opened up with Dylan’s 1965 track “Maggie’s Farm,” which Dylan himself first debuted to open his set at the festival in 1965.

The country star behind songs like "Beer Never Broke My Heart" says he knows he'll have to work harder to win over ...