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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 ...
The Hurricane is a 1999 American biographical sports drama film directed and produced by Norman Jewison.The film stars Denzel Washington as Rubin "The Hurricane" Carter, a former middleweight boxer who was wrongly convicted of a triple murder in a bar in Paterson, New Jersey.
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 ...
Bob Dylan recorded the song, "Hurricane" in 1975 based on Carter's story. Dylan also held a concert, called " Night of the Hurricane ", playing for 20,000 people in December, 1975, just 3 months before Carter's first conviction was overturned.
Rubin "Hurricane" Carter (May 6, 1937 – April 20, 2014) was an American-Canadian middleweight boxer, convicted of murder and later released following a petition of habeas corpus after serving almost 20 years in prison.
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.
The case drew national attention through Carter's 1974 biography, "The Sixteenth Round," and Bob Dylan's 1976 song "Hurricane". The New Jersey Supreme Court overturned their conviction in 1976, after two key witnesses recanted their testimony. [20]