Bob Dylan - Press Conference (Full-length) [US Television] 3 December 1965

Bob Dylan's legendary full-length televised press conference recorded at KQED Studios, San Francisco, California, USA on the 3rd of December 1965.

“When Bob Dylan’s five concerts in the San Francisco Bay Area were scheduled in December 1965, the idea was proposed that he hold a press conference in the studios of KQED, the educational television station. Dylan accepted and flew out a day early to make it.

He arrived early for the press conference accompanied by Robbie Robertson and several other members of his band, drank tea in the KQED office and insisted that he was ready to talk about "anything you want to talk about". His only request was that he be able to leave at 3 p.m., so that he could rehearse in the Berkeley Community Theater where he was to sing that night.

At the conclusion of the press conference, he chatted with friends for a while, jumped into a car and went back to Berkeley for the rehearsal. He cut the rehearsal off early to go to the hotel and watch the TV programme which was shown that night (and repeated the following week). This is the only full-length press conference by Dylan ever televised in its entirety.”