Fact #39260
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Short story:
Bob Dylan plays a second night at the Royal Albert Hall, London, England, UK, Europe, with The Beatles in the audience. This is the final show of the UK tour.
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Mickey Jones : I do think the best set we did was probably the Albert Hall, the last night. Everybody was lookin’ forward to goin’ home and we wanted to kinda leave with a bang.
Norman Jopling (Record Mirror reviewer) : After the interval, he returned with his group and launched into an ear-splitting cacophony …. The hecklers were in full force and just about everything possible was hurled at Bob (verbally - no missiles were seen).
Peter Willis (Peace News reviewer) : Dylan remained beatifically unaffected by this; during one of the few enfeebled bursts of slow-handclapping he simply made faces, giggled and remarked “This isn’t English music, this is American music.”
Norman Jopling : The highlight came when Bob sat down at the piano and did Ballad Of A Thin Man, which silenced even the folksier elements. He ended up with Like A Rolling Stone, jumping and yelling all over the stage and looking (as all the girls said) very sweet.
D.A. Pennebaker : I’m not sure how badly the British audiences affected Dylan. During that tour, we were with him, often filming all night long, and at no point did Bob indicate that felt these audiences hated him.
George Harrison (Beatle) : The thing I remember most about it was all these people who’d never heard of folk until Bob Dylan came around and two years later they’re staunch folk fans and they’re walking out on him when he was playing the electric songs. Which is so stupid. He actually played rock’n’roll before. Nobody knew that at the time but Bob had been in Bobby Vee’s band as the piano player and he’d played rock’n’roll. And then he became Bob Dylan The Folk Singer so, for him, it was just returning back.
I felt a bit sad for him because he was a bit wasted at that time. He’d been on a world tour and he looked like he’d been on a world tour. He looked like he needed a rest…
Mickey Jones : I’ve heard people say he did it for the money. The reality is he made less money on that tour than any tour he’d ever done. To take that many people and all that equipment and all that air freight cost so much more than if he had done the tour alone. By himself, he would have tripled the money he made so, obviously, he did not do it for the money. He did it because his musical tastes were changin’ too.
Robbie Robertson : Dylan had every opportunity to say, ‘Fellows, this is not working out. I’m going to go back to folk music, or get another band where they won’t boo every time.’ Everybody told him to get rid of these guys, that it wasn’t working. But he didn’t. That was very commendable.
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Norman Jopling (Record Mirror reviewer) : After the interval, he returned with his group and launched into an ear-splitting cacophony …. The hecklers were in full force and just about everything possible was hurled at Bob (verbally - no missiles were seen).
Peter Willis (Peace News reviewer) : Dylan remained beatifically unaffected by this; during one of the few enfeebled bursts of slow-handclapping he simply made faces, giggled and remarked “This isn’t English music, this is American music.”
Norman Jopling : The highlight came when Bob sat down at the piano and did Ballad Of A Thin Man, which silenced even the folksier elements. He ended up with Like A Rolling Stone, jumping and yelling all over the stage and looking (as all the girls said) very sweet.
D.A. Pennebaker : I’m not sure how badly the British audiences affected Dylan. During that tour, we were with him, often filming all night long, and at no point did Bob indicate that felt these audiences hated him.
George Harrison (Beatle) : The thing I remember most about it was all these people who’d never heard of folk until Bob Dylan came around and two years later they’re staunch folk fans and they’re walking out on him when he was playing the electric songs. Which is so stupid. He actually played rock’n’roll before. Nobody knew that at the time but Bob had been in Bobby Vee’s band as the piano player and he’d played rock’n’roll. And then he became Bob Dylan The Folk Singer so, for him, it was just returning back.
I felt a bit sad for him because he was a bit wasted at that time. He’d been on a world tour and he looked like he’d been on a world tour. He looked like he needed a rest…
Mickey Jones : I’ve heard people say he did it for the money. The reality is he made less money on that tour than any tour he’d ever done. To take that many people and all that equipment and all that air freight cost so much more than if he had done the tour alone. By himself, he would have tripled the money he made so, obviously, he did not do it for the money. He did it because his musical tastes were changin’ too.
Robbie Robertson : Dylan had every opportunity to say, ‘Fellows, this is not working out. I’m going to go back to folk music, or get another band where they won’t boo every time.’ Everybody told him to get rid of these guys, that it wasn’t working. But he didn’t. That was very commendable.