Mike Marqusee (1953–2015) was the author of Anyone but England: An Outsider Looks at English Cricket, War Minus the Shooting: A Journey Through South Asia During Cricket's World Cup, Redemption Song: Muhammad Ali and the Spirit of the Sixties, Wicked Messenger: Bob Dylan and the 1960s, and If I Am Not for Myself: Journey of an Anti-Zionist Jew.
Bob Dylan’s legendary 1965 performance at the Newport Folk Festival takes center stage in the new biopic A Complete Unknown. To really make sense of what happened at Newport, you need to understand the link between US folk music and left-wing politics.