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AYD Weekly | Bob Dylan, Harvard Square, 1963

The true story of "Talkin' World War III Blues" and how the past gets saved

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James O'Brien
Sep 05, 2023
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Sometime around the start of the gig, that Sunday evening in 1963, someone went downstairs at Club 47, in Harvard Square, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and performed a typical before-show task. They turned on a reel-to-reel recorder.

Upstairs, a microphone — probably suspended from the ceiling, according to Betsy Siggins, who helped manage the club at the…

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