Home Music Murray Lerner, Documentarian Who Filmed Bob Dylan’s First Electric Performance, Dead at...

Murray Lerner, Documentarian Who Filmed Bob Dylan’s First Electric Performance, Dead at 90

137

Murray Lerner, a filmmaker who captured Bob Dylan at the dawn of his electric era and Jimi Hendrix at the end of his life, has died, Variety reports. He was 90 years old.

Lerner is best known for Festival, a documentary about the Newport Folk Festival between 1963 and 1966, which included footage of Dylan’s first…