ABSTRACT
Bob Dylan’s 1965 British acoustic tour began on April 30 and concluded on May 10. It comprised eight concerts in seven British cities: Sheffield, Liverpool, Leicester, Birmingham, Newcastle, Manchester, and London, with two concluding appearances at the Royal Albert Hall on May 9 and 10. Dylan met the British press first at Heathrow airport and then two days later at the Savoy Hotel on the Strand in London, where he was staying. The album itself was groundbreaking in terms of both Dylan’s musical career and the future direction of popular music, since, as Howard Sounes has observed, it ‘integrated what he had learned from the success of British bands like the Beatles with his own, more poetic lyrics’. As for the 1965 British concert tour that the film documented, commercially and artistically it had been a success. As for the 1965 British concert tour that the film documented, commercially and artistically it had been a success.
