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"Hurricane" is a protest song by Bob Dylan co-written with Jacques Levy and released as a single in November 1975. It was also included on Dylan's 1976 album Desire as its opening track. The song is about the imprisonment of boxer Rubin "Hurricane" Carter (1937–2014).
The 1975 Bob Dylan song "Hurricane", which proclaimed that Carter was innocent. Carter appeared as himself in Dylan's 1978 movie Renaldo and Clara . [ 56 ] In the 2019 film Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese , Dylan talked about his involvement with the Carter case and Carter was also interviewed in the film, describing ...
Real Songs, Real People. ... ‘Hurricane’ by Bob Dylan. 1975 Bob Dylan’s “Hurricane” was about the boxer Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, who was wrongfully convicted of murder and imprisoned. ...
Dylan wrote most of Desire with theatre director Jacques Levy, including the hit “Hurricane” that protested the murder conviction of boxer Rubin Carter, and it was Dylan’s last multiplatinum ...
In the middle of 1975, Dylan championed boxer Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, imprisoned for triple murder, with his ballad "Hurricane" making the case for Carter's innocence. Despite its length—over eight minutes—the song was released as a single, peaking at 33 on the US Billboard chart , and performed at every 1975 date of Dylan's next tour ...
Soundtrack gem: "Knockin' on Heaven's Door" and "Hurricane," about prizefighter Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, who was wrongly convicted of murder. Entourage: Joan Baez, Sam Shepard, Ramblin' Jack ...
During the tour, Dylan's humanitarian side is also shown when he takes time to pay an unscheduled visit to record company executives to ensure rapid release of his new song "Hurricane", the musician's contribution to efforts to exonerate Ruben "Hurricane" Carter, a celebrated boxer wrongfully convicted of murder.
There’s concert footage, cinéma vérité-style passages, staged interviews, person-on-the-street interviews about Rubin “Hurricane” Carter’s wrongful imprisonment, and scripted vignettes ...