For decades, Bob Dylan's performance in Manchester was incorrectly labelled, The Royal Albert Hall Concert. Now, for the first time, the REAL Royal Albert Hall concert, originally recorded for a live album by CBS Records, is finally being released as a standalone 2CD set, titled The Real Royal Albert Hall 1966 Concert. This show is also included in the 1966 Live Recordings box set.
Dylan is accompanied on these recordings by Robbie Robertson (guitar), Rick Danko (bass, backing vocals), Richard Manuel (piano), Garth Hudson (organ) and Mickey Jones (drums).
These recordings put a fiery exclamation point on Dylan's great mid-60s
creative epoch that produced – in an 18-month span – Bringing It All Back
Home, Highway 61 Revisited and Blonde On Blonde, the trilogy of album
masterpieces which secured Dylan's reputation as a songwriter and performer of
unprecedented depth, power and originality while significantly impacting the
course of popular music and culture. These concert recordings from the same
period document Dylan's evolution as an on-stage phenomenon whose
transformative vision
saw no limits.
Adam Block, President, Legacy Recordings proclaims, “The intensity of Bob's live performances and his fantastic delivery of these songs in concert add another insightful component in understanding and appreciating the musical revolution Bob Dylan ignited some 50 years ago.”