Bob Dylan: No Direction Home: Part 1

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26th September 2005 Season 1 Episode 576

Director Martin Scorsese enlists the help of Dylan himself, Joan Baez , film-maker DA Pennebaker , Greenwich Village folk icon Dave Von Ronk , and beat poet Allen Ginsberg , for an emotional, musical and intellectual journey through the singer/songwriter's early career, up to the controversial 1966 tour of the British Isles. From being a rock 'n' roll loving kid in the Midwest. Dylan tells how he became smitten with folk music and what influenced him. As his fame and notoriety grew, his skill as a performer matured rapidly and the songs began to flow: Blowin' in the Wind; Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall; Masters of War; Don't Think Twice, It's All Right.

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Season 1 · Episode 577

Bob Dylan: No Direction Home: Part 2

Martin Scorsese delicately balances Dylan's internal world with signpost images from the external as he follows the newsworthy phenomenon of a 23-year-old star laden with expectations - from the old left to become a political activist, and from the media to articulate the concerns of America's youth. But Dylan was already on the move, finding a new musical vocabulary with which to capture the complexity of a seismic cultural shift, injecting a heightened sense of poetry into his writing and committing the crime of adding electricity to his music. By 1966 Dylan's personal world had become a never-ending journey of touring and press conferences - with no direction home.

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