Barry Goldberg, Bob Dylan’s iconic keyboardist, dies at 83

Barry Goldberg, the iconic keyboardist who famously played with Bob Dylan during his infamous Newport Folk Festival show successful 1965, has died astatine 83 years old.

The stone and blues musician’s typical Bob Merlis confirmed the quality of his passing.

Goldberg died successful hospice attraction aft helium was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma 10 years ago.

According to Merlis, his woman of 53 years, Gail, and lad Aram were by his broadside erstwhile helium passed.

A fixture of the aboriginal blues and stone country successful the 60s, Goldberg was calved successful 1942 successful Chicago and became an exceptional instrumentalist arsenic a young man, specializing successful soulful soft playing.

In the aboriginal 60s, helium was playing successful The Paul Butterfield Blues Band, and this meant helium would everlastingly spell down successful euphony past arsenic helium supported Bob Dylan connected keys astatine the Newport Folk Festival successful 1965.

The acceptable would spell connected to beryllium considered 1 of Dylan’s astir iconic performances arsenic it was the archetypal clip Dylan played with an electrical guitar alongside a unrecorded set – a determination that sparked monolithic backlash.

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