The Life of a Song: A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall

FT Life of a Song

English - May 14, 2017 22:00 - 7 minutes - 10.8 MB - ★★★★★ - 14 ratings
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David Cheal looks at how Bob Dylan took inspiration from an old Scottish border ballad while writing this era-defining apocalyptic vision of what he saw as the violent, ignorant and hypocritical socio-political landscape of 1960s America. Credits: Sony Music Entertainment Inc, A Wing & A Prayer Ltd, Vanguard Records, Virgin Records. Patti Smith Nobel ceremony recording courtesy of: Nobelprize.org.

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