Bob Dylan England Tour 1965

Bob Dylan England Tour 1965

Tour by Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan performing in an unknown concert venue on his 1965 tour of England. This tour would be his last performed solo and acoustic.
Start date	April 30, 1965
End date	May 10, 1965
Bob Dylan concert chronology

The Bob Dylan England Tour 1965 was a concert tour by American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan during late April and early May 1965. The tour was widely documented by filmmaker D. A. Pennebaker, who used the footage of the tour in his documentary Dont Look Back.

Tour dates

Date	City	Country	Venue
April 30, 1965	Sheffield	England	Sheffield City Hall
May 1, 1965	Liverpool		Liverpool Odeon Theatre
May 2, 1965	Leicester		De Montfort Hall
May 5, 1965	Birmingham		Birmingham Town Hall
May 6, 1965	Newcastle		Newcastle City Hall
May 7, 1965	Manchester		Free Trade Hall
May 9, 1965	London		Royal Albert Hall
May 10, 1965

Set lists

As Dylan was still playing exclusively folk music live, much of the material performed during this tour was pre-1965. Each show was divided into two halves, with seven songs performed during the first, and eight during the second.^[1] The set consisted of two songs from The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan, three from The Times They Are a-Changin', three from Another Side of Bob Dylan, a comic-relief concert staple "If You Gotta Go, Go Now" issued as a single in Europe, and six songs including the entire second side of his then-recent album, Bringing It All Back Home.

First half

1. "The Times They Are a-Changin'"
2. "To Ramona"
3. "Gates of Eden"
4. "If You Gotta Go, Go Now (or Else You Got to Stay All Night)"
5. "It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)"
6. "Love Minus Zero/No Limit"
7. "Mr. Tambourine Man"

Second Half

1. "Talkin' World War III Blues"
2. "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right"
3. "With God on Our Side"
4. "She Belongs to Me"
5. "It Ain't Me Babe"
6. "The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll"
7. "All I Really Want to Do"
8. "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue"

Set list per Olof Bjorner.^[1]

Aftermath

Joan Baez accompanied him on the tour, but she was never invited to play with him in concert. In fact, they did not tour together again until 1975. After this tour, Dylan was hailed as a hero of folk music, but two months later, at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival, he would alienate his fans and go electric. Dylan was the only artist apart from the Beatles to sell out the De Montfort Hall in the 1960s. Even the Rolling Stones did not sell out this venue.

References

1. Bjorner (August 7, 2000) Manchester, England, May 7, 1965 Bjorner's Still on the Road. Retrieved July 27, 2010

• Howard Sounes: Down the Highway. The Life of Bob Dylan.. 2001.

External links

• Bjorner's Still on the Road 1965: Tour dates & set lists