This year marks 60 years since Bob Dylan’s world tour laid bare a collision between the press of the era and a man who had become famous at breakneck speed. At a series of now-famous, elusive press conferences around the concerts, the young musician—his hair growing ever wilder—was heckled by reporters from Stockholm to Paris. With microphones and cameras, they asked Dylan to explain the changes of the time.

The protagonist described himself as a ‘song and dance-man,’ but he refused to sing or dance to the choreography the press had drawn up.