in an epochal musical moment.
they expected him to play acoustic folk.
He opened on the Sunday night
with an amped-up “Maggie’s Farm”,
and changed everything.
Pandemonium ensued.
It was (apocryphally) reported that Pete Seeger
tried chopping through the sound cables with an ax.
How does it feel to be on your own?
On this day in 1965
at Newport, Mr. Dylan began to answer his own question.