Profile: Media and eyewitness accounts of Bob Dylan's 1965 performance at the Newport Folk Festival

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Profile: Media and eyewitness accounts of Bob Dylan's 1965 performance at the Newport Folk Festival

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Tomorrow Bob Dylan returns to the Newport Folk Festival stage for the first time since 1965. Legend has it that Dylan was booed off the stage for bringing an electric band to t...

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