![]() “But I had to sing it, my whole concert takes off from there. “I thought, ‘Wow, how can I open with that song? I’ll get rocks thrown at me,'” he told biographer Anthony Scaduto. The next night, Dylan opened a concert with The Times They Are a-Changin’. Less than a month after Dylan recorded the song, President Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas. The civil rights movement and the folk music movement were pretty close for a while and allied together at that time.” “I wanted to write a big song, with short concise verses that piled up on each other in a hypnotic way. It was influenced of course by the Irish and Scottish ballads …’Come All Ye Bold Highway Men’, ‘Come All Ye Tender Hearted Maidens,'” Dylan said of his tune to Cameron Crowe. “This was definitely a song with a purpose. READ two quotes of Dylan describing his legendary anthem… (1963) Inspired by Irish and Scottish ballads, Dylan wrote the song as a deliberate attempt to create an anthem of change for the tumultuous 60s. 60 years ago today, Bob Dylan recorded The Times They Are A-Changin’ at Columbia Recording Studios in New York City.
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