This January marks the sixtieth anniversary of the release of Bob Dylan's iconic album The Times They Are a-Changin' which captured the mood of upheaval and progress that marked a turbulent decadeIt's sixty years since Bob Dylan’s iconic album The Times They Are a-Changin' first hit the charts and its title track remains as powerfully relevant today as it did when it captured the mood of a generation yearning for social change. After his eponymous debut LP Bob Dylan, followed by The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan, The Times they are a-Changin’ established him, somewhat reluctantly, as a protest singer, says Howard Sounes, author of Down the Highway: The Life of Bob Dylan. “All his contemporaries from that time were amazed by him,” says Sounes, who interviewed 250 people from Dylan’s circle of friends. This guy is incredible’.”Boyd was a tour manager with blues singer Muddy Waters when he met Dylan for the second time in 1964 – and he tells how he lost a potential girlfriend to him. It was fantastic.”And Dylan’s popularity has never waned – nor his desire to perform live, even at the age of 82.

Source: The Times January 06, 2024 18:41 UTC