Dylan’s decision to play an electric guitar on a largely acoustic bill stunned the crowd, with many booing and jeering. Audiences for his world tour were similarly polarised, one disgruntled heckler in Manchester yelling: “Judas!” at the former folk hero. Photograph: Pictorial Press Ltd/AlamyFranklin & Marshall College, Pennsylvania, 1966A show in a college gym was the breakthrough that made arena rock possible. But it represented a shift in rock music: no more Beatles gigs meant more time in the studio – and albums that would change everything, again. LSBeyoncéCoachella festival, California, 14 April 2018This spectacular feat of artistic and musical ingenuity disrupted and decolonised homogenous modern festival culture.

Source: The Guardian February 12, 2022 09:14 UTC