1 INTRODUCTION

Bob Dylan goes electric and the tempo in his career and life accelerates: two outstanding albums in one year, two major tours, one film, the end of the folk music era at Newport. On top of that he is during the whole of this year constantly writing on his book Tarantula. He meets Sara Lowndes and they marry in November.

2 THE YEAR AT A GLANCE

3 CALENDAR

January	Sing Out! publishes a prose piece that is taken from a book called Walk Down Crooked Highway later to be Tarantula.
January	Robert Shelton interviews Dylan for Cavalier magazine.
13-15 January	Recording of Bringing It All Back Home.
17 February	Les Crane TV Show.
March	The Maura Davies interview for Cavalier, concentrating on his tie and it's importance for his song-writing.
March	Dylan again tours with Joan Baez.
14 March	Daniel Kramer photographs Dylan and Sara Lowndes at Albert Grossman's cabin in Woodstock. One shot is later included in Kramer's book about Dylan.
22 March	Release of Bringing It All Back Home.
Late March	Paul Jay Robbins from the L.A. Free Press interviews Dylan. One of the few interviews from this period that are serious through out.
April	Release of single Subterranean Homesick Blues/She Belongs To Me. In US this single spent 8 weeks at the charts, peaking at a modest #39. It fared a little better in England where it spent 9 weeks in Top 50, peaking at #9.
26 April	Dylan arrives to London for his English tour.
8 May	Shooting of the promotional film for Subterranean Homesick Blues at the side of Savoy Hotel in London. "Actors" in the background are Allen Ginsberg and Bob Neuwirth. The cards are painted by Alan Price and Joan Baez
10 May	Last show in Royal Albert Hall in London.
12 May	Laurie Henshaw from Disc and Music Echo interviews Dylan.
Mid May	Vacation in Portugal with Sara Lowndes.
1 June	Recording of two BBC shows.
2 June	Bob Dylan and Sara Lowndes leaves England.
15-16 June	Recording of Highway 61 Revisited starts in New York.
20 July	Release of single Like A Rolling Stone/Gates Of Eden. First hit single, peaked at #2 in the US with a total of 12 weeks. In England it reached #4, also 12 weeks in the Top 50.
24 July	Dylan performs All I Really Wanna Do at the afternoon workshop on the first day of the Newport Folk Festival.
25 July	Famous live electric debut with the Paul Butterfield Blues Band. The historic event is included in the film called Festival. This year's programme contains a new prose piece by Dylan called Off The Top Of My Head.
29 July – 4 August	Completion of Highway 61 Revisited.
28 August	The fall tour starts with a concert at the Forest Hills Tennis Stadium. Dylan plays the first set solo and is backed by a band consisting of Robbie Robertson, Levon Helm, Harvey Brooks and Al Kooper in the second set. This format, one acoustic and one electric set is kept through out the fall and during the 1966 World tour.
30 August	Release of Highway 61 Revisited.
September	Release of single Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window/From A Buick 6. Withdrawn.
7 September	Release of single Positively 4th Street/From A Buick 6. This single reached #7 and was listed for 7 weeks. In UK it spent three months at Top 50, reaching $8.
15 September	Harvey Brooks and Al Kooper decides not to continue touring and are replaced by Garth Hudson, Rick Danko and Richard Manuel, thus re-uniting the Hawks.
22 November	In the midst of the extensive fall tour Bob Dylan and Sara Lowndes gets married at a private ceremony in New York. The wedding is kept secret for a long time.
26 November	Joseph Haas from the Chicago Daily News interviews Dylan.
30 November	Release of single Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window/Highway 61 Revisited.
3 December	San Francisco press conference at the KQED studios, hosted by Ralph Gleason and with Allen Ginsberg in the audience.
16 December	Los Angeles press conference.

4 CONCERTS 1965

Here’s an incomplete list of live appearances in 1965, J means that a recording has survived.

4.1 Solo concerts

February		Bridgewater, Massachusetts	State College
	12	Troy, New York	Troy Armory

March	5	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania	Convention Hall with Joan Baez
	6	New Haven, Connecticut	New Haven Arena with Joan Baez
		Trenton, New Jersey
		Princeton, New Jersey	Princeton University
		Newark, New Jersey	Symphony Hall, Mosque Theater
		Buffalo, New York
	24	Pittsburg, Pennsylvania	two shows with Joan Baez
	27	Santa Monica, California	Civic Auditorium	J
	28	Berkeley, California	Berkeley Community Theater

April	3	Berkeley, California	Berkeley Community Theater
		Seattle
	9	Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada	Queen Elizabeth Theater
	30	Sheffield, England	The Oval, City Hall	J

May	1	Liverpool, England	Odeon	J
	2	Leicester, England	DeMontfort Hall	J
	5	Birmingham, England	Town Hall
	6	Newcastle, England	City Hall	J
	7	Manchester, England	Free Trade Hall	J
	9	London, England	Royal Albert Hall	J
	10	London, England	Royal Albert Hall	J

July	24	Newport, New York	Newport Folk Festival	J

4.2 Concerts with backing

4.3

July	26	Newport, New York	Newport Folk Festival	J

August	28	New York City, New York	Forest Hills Tennis Stadium	J

September	3	Los Angeles, California	Hollywood Bowl	J
	24	Austin, Texas	Austin Municipal Auditorium
	25	Dallas, Texas	Southern Methodist University Coliseum

October	1	New York City, New York	Carnegie Hall
	2	Newark, New Jersey	Symphony Hall, Mosque Theater
		Baltimore, Maryland	Civic Center
	9	Atlanta, Georgia	City Auditorium
	16	Worcester, Massachusetts	Memorial Auditorium
		Princeton, New Jersey	Princeton University
	22	Providence, Rhode Island	Rhode Island Auditorium
	23	Burlington, Vermont	UVM Patrick Gymnasium
	24	Detroit, Michigan	Cobo Hall
	29	Boston, Massachusetts	Back Bay Theater
	30	Hartfort, Connecticut	Bushnell Memorial Auditorium
	31	Boston, Massachusetts	Back Bay Theater
		Madison, Wisconsin	Orpheum Theater

November	5	Minneapolis, Minnesota	Auditorium
	6	Buffalo, New York	Kleinhans Music Hall
		Yellow Springs, Ohio	Antioch College
	12	Cleveland, Ohio	Music Hall
	14	Toronto, Ontario, Canada	Massey Hall
	15	Toronto, Ontario, Canada	Massey Hall
	18	Cincinnati, Ohio	Music Hall
	19	Columbus, Ohio	Veterans Memorial Auditorium
	20	Rochester, New York
	21	Syracuse, New York	Onondaga County War Memorial
	26	Chicago, Illinois	Arie Crown Theater	J
	27	Chicago, Illinois	Arie Crown Theater
	28	Washington, DC	Washington Coliseum
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