'I photographed Bob Dylan as fan shouted Judas at Manchester gig'

Music fan Alan Corbett had no idea he would be snapping a piece of pop history when he took a camera to a Bob Dylan gig at Manchester Free Trade Hall, which became famous when a heckler called the singer "Judas" for playing an electric guitar. Corbett, then aged 19, had seen Dylan perform an acoustic set at the venue a year earlier on 7 May where he had seen his hero from the first two rows supported by the legendary Joan Baez. The following year though, it was a different story in more ways than one. For starters, Corbett was up on the balcony, but more memorably, in the second half of his set, Dylan had strapped a 1965 black Fender Telecaster electric guitar to himself. "He was so popular, the only places we could get were in the balcony," said Corbett. The fledgling photographer was still smarting from music newspaper Melody Maker rejecting his shots of jazz luminary Ornette Coleman when he took his camera into the gig. Corbett had been captivated by Dylan's music and lyrics since he was loaned a copy of the performer's second studio album The Freewheelin Bob Dylan by a friend two years earlier. "I let him have it back and then I bought the first Dylan album, which just featured