When you think of “Farewell, Angelina,” you might remember Bob Dylan’s maze of images—those surreal lines that feel like prophecies whispered through smoke and thunder. But when Joan Baez lifted the song in 1965, something extraordinary happened. The farewell softened. The riddles bled into sorrow. And the revolution suddenly had a heartbeat. In Baez’s hands, the song wasn’t merely sung—it was felt. Her voice, clear as morning light yet trembling at the edges, carried the weight of a generation

August 28, 1963: Dylan performs during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, where civil rights activist Martin Luther King, Jr. delivers his “I Have a Dream” speech. | Bob Dylan