LECTURE 15: THE BARDS OF POP: Bob Dylan performs “It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue” in this extraordinary documentary film footage from 1965. It’s impossible to overstate Dylan’s impact on The Beatles by the mid-1960s. They made no secret of their love of his music, and they held him up as a role model pointing in new directions for pathways to reinvention and transformation. Dylan, in turn, was one of the few musicians in the early days of Beatlemania to anticipate that The Beatles were a force to be reckoned with, and not just an over-publicized Liverpool mop-top novelty act.







