Timeline Sunday 25 July 1965

Sunday 25 July 1965

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Events on Sunday 25 July 1965 1

1965 Bob Dylan performs electric set at Newport Folk Festival Folk icon's shift to rock divides audience On 25 July 1965 Bob Dylan took the stage at the Newport Folk Festival backed by an electric rock band, breaking with his acoustic folk image and drawing a famously mixed reaction from the crowd. The performance is remembered as a pivotal, controversial moment in the evolution of popular music. It signaled Dylan's turn toward the electric sound of albums like Highway 61 Revisited.