DYLAN GOES ELECTRIC! by Elijah Wald

- NEWPORT, SEEGER, DYLAN AND THE NIGHT THAT SPLIT THE SIXTIES.

The book has been translated into Czech, French, Italian, and Japanese.

     On the evening of July 25, 1965, Bob Dylan took the stage at Newport Folk Festival, backed by an electric band, and roared into his new rock hit Like a Rolling Stone. One of the music world’s pre-eminent critics takes a fresh and much-needed look at the day Dylan “went electric” at the Newport Folk Festival, timed to coincide with the event’s fiftieth anniversary.

      This book inspired A COMPLETE UNKNOWN, the 2024 movie by James Mangold, who co-wrote the screenplay with Jay Cocks, where Timothée Chalamet (who also produces) stars as Bob Dylan.

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Dey Street Books 2015, hardcover with dustjacket, 354 pages. ISBN 978-0-06-236668-9	Dey Street Books 2016, paperback, 354 pages. ISBN 978-0-06-236669-6	same, with 2025 sticker: 'The inspiration for the major motion picture A Complete Unknown'