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Forty years ago today, May 12, 1963 Bob Dylan walked off the Ed Sullivan show because he was told he couldn't perform the "Talking John Birch Society Blues". He never came back.

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Unreformed hawkish Hoosier hillbilly Al Barger runs the still squeezin' down the psychodelic Kentucky moonshine at More Things. What with the paranoid religious visions, the Pentecostal music, visions of God and anarchy running amok and such, somebody …

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  • 1 - andy

    May 13, 2003 at 12:58 pm

    I just got Don't Look Back on DVD. IT's a great film!

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