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Featured performance

November 21, 1978

1. My Back Pages
2. She's Love Crazy
3. Mr. Tambourine Man
4. Shelter From the Storm
5. It's All Over Now, Baby Blue
6. Tangled Up in Blue
7. Ballad of a Thin Man
8. Maggie's Farm
9. I Don't Believe You (She Acts Like We Never Have Met)
10. Like a Rolling Stone
11. I Shall Be Released
12. Señor (Tales of Yankee Power)
13. Watching the River Flow
14. The Times They Are A-Changin'
15. Rainy Day Women #12 & 35
16. It Ain't Me, Babe
17. Am I Your Stepchild?
18. One More Cup of Coffee (Valley Below)
19. Blowin' in the Wind
20. Girl From the North Country
21. We Better Talk This Over
22. Masters of War
23. Just Like a Woman
24. To Ramona
25. All Along the Watchtower
26. All I Really Want to Do
27. It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)
28. Forever Young
29. Changing of the Guards (last song)

Also played on this date

• November 21, 1981 — Lakeland Civic Center — Lakeland, Florida, United States
• November 21, 1980 — The Warfield — San Francisco, California, United States
• November 21, 2001 — Verizon Wireless Arena — Manchester, New Hampshire, United States
• November 21, 1975 — The Music Hall — Boston, MA
• November 21, 2002 — First Union Arena — Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, United States
• November 21, 2015 — Teatro degli Arcimboldi — Milan, Lombardy, Italy
• November 21, 2017 — Beacon Theatre — New York, New York, United States
• November 21, 1975 — The Music Hall — Boston, MA
• November 21, 2014 — Academy of Music — Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
• November 21, 2019 — Metropolitan Opera House — Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
• November 21, 2005 — Carling Academy Brixton — London, England, United Kingdom
• November 21, 2008 — United Palace Theatre — New York, New York, United States
• November 21, 1979 — Santa Monica Civic Auditorium — Santa Monica, California, United States
• November 21, 2003 — NEC Arena — Birmingham, England, United Kingdom
• November 21, 2021 — Beacon Theatre — New York, New York, United States
• November 21, 2023 — Prudential Hall, New Jersey Performing Arts Center — Newark, New Jersey, United States
• November 21, 2004 — Gordon Indoor Track — Boston, Massachusetts, United States
• November 21, 2012 — Barclays Center — Brooklyn, New York, United States
• November 21, 1996 — Hill Auditorium — Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
• November 21, 2011 — HMV Hammersmith Apollo — London, England, United Kingdom
• November 21, 1965 — Onondaga War Memorial Auditorium — Syracuse, New York, United States
• November 21, 1964 — Oriental Theatre — Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States