1965
Solo tour of England, filmed for Dont Look Back
In the spring of 1965 Dylan toured England with an acoustic show, and D. A. Pennebaker filmed the trip for the documentary Dont Look Back, released in 1967.
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The tour came just after Bringing It All Back Home, an album with one electric side and one acoustic side, yet on stage he still appeared alone with guitar and harmonica. British fans treated him as a star, and the press followed him everywhere. Pennebaker's camera caught the backstage life: sparring with reporters, hotel-room song swaps, Joan Baez in the entourage, a meeting with Donovan, and his manager Albert Grossman at work. The film's opening, with Dylan flipping cue cards to "Subterranean Homesick Blues", became one of the most imitated images in music. It was the last tour of his solo acoustic period. Weeks after returning home he recorded "Like a Rolling Stone", and the sound of his music changed for good.
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His songs from 1965
- It's All Over Now, Baby BlueBringing It All Back Home
- Maggie's FarmBringing It All Back Home
- Mr. Tambourine ManBringing It All Back Home
- Gates of EdenBringing It All Back Home
- Just Like Tom Thumb’s BluesHighway 61 Revisited
- She Belongs to MeBringing It All Back Home
- It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)Bringing It All Back Home
- Tombstone BluesHighway 61 Revisited