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The 1970’s; famed as the decade that The Beatles dispersed, Simon & Garfunkel went their separate ways and Punk went pop.
For those who weren’t painting themselves in PVC patching and pushing their progressive views to a new nation of new radical rebels, booming the likes of The Sex Pistols and The Ramones through rioted streets across the globe, there lay a post-beatnik empire of young adults who had said goodbye to the days of the British invasion and American folk-rock revolution that guided them through the 60’s, Bob Dylan, one of the most predominant and influence front-running freedom riders of the swinging sixties transformation, wasn’t waving goodbye to his adoring domain that easily, unlike many other acts who didn’t go on to ride the tide of the 1970s.
By time the 60’s were over, Dylan was on his 10th studio album, Self-portrait, releasing nine more albums throughout the decade. It was in ’76 that Dylan released his two time platinum winning album, ‘Desire’, that saw the release of renowned folk-rock protest tale, the ‘Hurricane’.
Recorded on this date, 24th October in 1975, the ‘Hurricane’ was one of the most influential tracks to hit the mid 70’s, dealing with themes of racism, corporate corruption and injustice around the profiling of fighter Rubin ‘Hurricane’ Carter, whom Bob deemed to be innocent in a crime lay convicted of.
After many revising sessions of the track taking place in CBS studios, Dylan decided to take his ready recorded, stripped down, slow ballad and revamp the melodys with a more upbeat tempo, stronger harmonies , extensive vocals and a change in lyrics to disassociate the song with it’s controversial attachments that were said to have possible caused an outlandish lawsuit against Alfred Bello and Arthur Dexter Bradley.
‘Hurricane’ proved to be Dylan’s fourth most successful single of the decade, reaching #33 on the Billboard chart and #43 in the UK chart.