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8/28/1965 Bob Dylan angers fans with electric set in New York

 

Bob Dylan performs Desolation Row for the first time during his seven song solo acoustic set at on this day in 1965 the Forest Hills Tennis Stadium in Queens, NY. He gets loudly heckled and booed  by hostile audience members for going electric during his  second set, during which he was backed by Robbie Robertson, Levon Helm, Al Kooper and Harvey Brooks.

 

Other Noteworthy Classic Rock events on August 28 include...

1942 Velvet Underground founding guitarist  Sterling Morrison born.

1948 Original Chicago drummer Danny Seraphine born.

1949 Fairport Convention drummer Martin Lamble born.

1951 Molly Hatchet guitarist Dave Hlubek born.

1964 Beatles meet Bob Dylan for first time. 

1965 The Rolling Stones add Allen Kline as co-manager with Andrew Loog Oldham on the same day they sign with Decca Records.

1966 The Beatles play Dodger Stadium in LA.

1967 The Grateful Dead and Big Brother and the Holding company perform at the funeral of a Hells Angles member killed in a motorcycle - car wreck.

1978 Television breaks-up. 

1986 Tina Turner awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk Of Fame 

1999 Cheap Trick does a 25th anniversary concert in their hometown of Rockford, Illinois.

2005 Jonathan Caine of Journey has emergency appendectomy after Long Island concert. 

2010 Patti Smith is joined by Eddie Vedder, Johnny Depp, Dhani Harrison during Little Rock AK benefit concert for three men convicted in questionable murder case.

2014 Original Jethro Tull bassist Glenn Cornick dies of congestive heart failure at 67.

2016 John Lennon's killer, Mark David Chapman, is denied parole for the ninth time.

2020 The Allman Betts Band releases Bless Your Heart.