In his engrossing piece about A Complete Unknown (‘It’s full of things that didn’t happen – but it feels right!’ Inside the making of Bob Dylan film A Complete Unknown. 27 December), Alexis Petridis mentioned that the film is very good at capturing the shock and awe of audiences encountering songs like Blowin’ in the Wind as freshly written material.
I well remember experiencing just that feeling in the early 1960s watching a TV broadcast of Peter, Paul and Mary singing the song. I had never before heard such powerful lyrics and took careful note when Mary said that it had been written by an aspiring young folk singer called Bob Dylan.
