o POST DE NÚMERO 100

Date/Time: 1964-02-25
Place: Hollywood, Ca
Aspects: Transiting Sun & Mars conjunct natal Mars in Pisces
Description: Following a cross-country road trip with friends, Dylan appears on national television on the Steve Allen Show.

Story: Bob Dylan was a young folksinger when he first surfaced in the early Sixties with a series of albums that came to embody the activist spirit of the times. However, following John F. Kennedy’s assassination on November 22, 1963, he began to distance himself from the topical/protest song material he was known for, and started writing more personal songs, with lyrics masked in an ambiguous, impressionist style. In February 1964, he sat in the back seat of a station wagon that traveled cross-country from New York to California, typing song lyrics and listening to the radio. It was during this trip that he first heard the Beatles, who were taking America by storm and soon held the top five spots of the top ten. On February 25, 1964, he performed his song The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll on the Steve Allen Show, a national TV broadcast. With his latest album, The Times They Are-A Changing, released that month, Dylan had, like the Beatles, also captured America’s attention. However, by the time he played this night, he was already looking well ahead into his next phase, one which would take its cue from the electric rock of the Fab Four. Unknown to him at this time, the Beatles were also listening to his albums and thinking along similar lines.

Stars: On the night he performed on television, transiting Mars and the Sun were conjunct his natal Mars in Pisces, square his natal Sun in Gemini, signifying his changes in musical and lyric style at this time, and the inspiration to collaborate with a group.


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