Joan Baez Live in 1965: Full Concert

On June 5, 1965, Joan Baez played a spe­cial con­cert at the BBC Tele­vi­sion The­atre in Shep­herd’s Bush, Lon­don. Although her fame at the time was new­ly eclipsed by that of her recent­ly estranged lover Bob Dylan, Baez was very much in her prime.

The con­cert was record­ed less than a month after Dylan’s 1965 tour of Eng­land, chron­i­cled in D.A. Pen­nebak­er’s film Don’t Look Back, in which Dylan failed to invite Baez onstage despite the fact that she had intro­duced him to nation­al audi­ences in Amer­i­ca.

Baez plays sev­er­al Dylan songs in the BBC con­cert, along with oth­er folk and pop songs from her reper­toire. Includ­ed is Baez’s first hit sin­gle, her ver­sion of the Phil Ochs song “There but for For­tune,” which was released the same month in Amer­i­ca but would not come out in the UK until the fol­low­ing month. The con­cert was orig­i­nal­ly broad­cast by the BBC as two sep­a­rate half-hour spe­cials, both end­ing with the clas­sic French love song “Plaisir d’amour.” Baez’s moth­er Joan Senior, or “Big Joan” as she was called (and who died this month at the age of 100), can be seen in the back­ground at the 33:30 and 104:43 marks applaud­ing and smil­ing proud­ly. The set list for the two back-to-back pro­grams is:

1. “I’m a Ram­bler, I’m a Gam­bler”
2. “There but for For­tune”
3. “Cop­per Ket­tle”
4. “Mary Hamil­ton”
5. “Don’t Think Twice, it’s Alright”
6. “I’m Trou­bled and I Don’t Know Why”
7. “We Shall Over­come”
8. “With God on Our Side”
9. “Plaisir d’amour”
10. “Sil­ver Dag­ger”
11. “Oh Free­dom”
12. “She’s a Trou­ble­mak­er”
13. “The Unqui­et Grave”
14. “It Ain’t Me Babe”
15. “Isn’t it Grand”
16. “500 Miles”
17. “Te Ador/Ate Aman­ha”
18. “Plaisir d’amour”

Relat­ed con­tent:

Joan Baez Per­forms at Age 17

Two Leg­ends Togeth­er: A Young Bob Dylan Talks and Plays on The Studs Terkel Pro­gram, 1963

Bob Dylan Shares a Drug-Hazed Taxi Ride with John Lennon (1966)