Dylan Goes Electric! : Newport, Seeger, Dylan, and the Night That Split the Sixties by Elijah Wald

Dylan Goes Electric! : Newport, Seeger, Dylan, and the Night That Split the Sixties by Elijah WaldOne of the music world's pre eminent critics takes a fresh and much needed look at the day Dylan 'went electric' at the Newport Folk Festival, timed to coincide with the event's fiftieth anniversary. On the evening of July 25, 1965, Bob Dylan took the stage at Newport Folk Festival, backed by an electric band, and roared into his new rock hit, Like a Rolling Stone. The audience of committed folk purists and political activists who had hailed him as

Scalpel-sharp storytelling

In a great green room a little bunny is tucked up snugly and safely in bed and is getting ready to say goodnight to all the familiar things in his room

So when ex-SAS major Ben Hope hears former bounty-hunter

earthy risottos

has been filled with these ‘inconvenient places’ which embarrass everyone

with the mask at his feet

with a rope tied around its wrists and tape over each eye

'Did you know the melting point of gallium is so low that it will melt in your hand because of your body heat

Noye's 'Grand Tour on the Run' was as unbelievable as it was unprecedented

But whose fault is it really

' - ANNA MAKIEVSKAInspired by the resilient spirit of Anna Makievska and The Bakehouse

Lucy Worsley's biography is both authoritative and entertaining and makes us realise what an extraordinary pioneer Agatha Christie was - truly a woman who wrote the twentieth century