Bob Dylan stuns the 1965 Newport Folk Festival by plugging in his guitar, marking a revolutionary shift and defining moment in 20th century music.
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00:00You're trapped all the way from Minnesota.
00:10Why's that?
00:11I don't want him to catch a spark.
00:14If you're traveling in the North Country Fair,
00:20They say no one wants to hear what a kid wrote last month.
00:24Well, I like your songs.
00:26Where the winds hit heavy on
00:30Who wrote this?
00:32He did.
00:34How about that Joan Baez, folks?
00:37She's pretty.
00:39Sings pretty.
00:41Maybe a little too pretty.
00:44Your songs are like an oil painting at the dentist's office.
00:47You're kind of an asshole, Bob.
01:00For anyone who's gonna hold your attention on stage,
01:03You have to kind of be a freak.
01:05You can be beautiful or you can be ugly,
01:07But you can't be plain.
01:13When's the new album out?
01:15Soon.
01:16200 people in that room,
01:18And each one wants me to be somebody else.
01:20They should just let me be.
01:22Let you be what?
01:24Whatever it is they don't want me to be.
01:27I hear Bob is playing electric.
01:30Not on our stage yet.
01:34It's Bob Dylan.
01:38They just want me singing and blowing in the wind
01:40For the rest of my goddamn life.
01:43Well, this is gonna piss some people off.
01:46You came here with nothing but a guitar.
01:48You never talk about your family, your past.
01:51People make up their past, Sylvie.
01:53They remember what they want, they forget the rest.
01:56I want to know which side he's on.
01:59I'm not sure they want to hear what I want to play, Johnny.
02:04I want to hear it.
02:10Turn it down!
02:14Make some noise, Big D.
02:26Yeah, Rolling Stone.