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On This Day in Dylan History
For May 8, explore a featured Bob Dylan concert from the archive, including venue details, tour information, location, and available setlist data, plus other Dylan performances from this same calendar date in history.
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Featured performance
May 8, 1996
15 songs
- Drifter's Escape
- Tonight I'll Be Staying Here With You
- All Along the Watchtower
- Simple Twist of Fate
- It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry
- Silvio
- Tangled Up in Blue
- It's All Over Now, Baby Blue
- Friend of the Devil
- Seeing the Real You at Last
- Ballad of a Thin Man
- Highway 61 Revisited
- Alabama Getaway
- Girl From the North Country
- Rainy Day Women #12 & 35 (last song)
Also played on this date
- May 8, 2002 — Telewest Arena — Newcastle upon Tyne, England, United Kingdom
- May 8, 2017 — Echo Arena — Liverpool, England, United Kingdom
- May 8, 1976 — Hofheinz Pavilion — Houston, TX
- May 8, 1991 — Palace Theatre — Albany, New York, United States
- May 8, 1992 — Berkeley Community Theatre — Berkeley, California, United States
- May 8, 2000 — Hanns-Martin-Schleyer-Halle — Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
- May 8, 1980 — Bushnell Memorial Hall — Hartford, Connecticut, United States
- May 8, 2003 — nTelos Wireless Pavilion — Portsmouth, Virginia, United States
- May 8, 1994 — The River Stage — Memphis, Tennessee, United States
- May 8, 1965 — Savoy Hotel — London, England, United Kingdom