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==Live performances== Dylan has performed the song live 1,685 times up to August 2018. The first was on 13 November 1975 at Veterans Memorial Coliseum, [[New Haven, Connecticut|New Haven]]. <ref name="BDTUIB">{{cite web |title=Tangled Up in Blue |url=http://www.bobdylan.com/songs/tangled-blue/ |author=<!--Not stated--> |website=bobdylan.com |publisher=Sony Music Entertainment |access-date=24 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191217050224/http://www.bobdylan.com/songs/tangled-blue/ |archive-date=December 17, 2019 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="BDTUIBSL">{{cite web |title=Setlists that contain Tangled Up in Blue |url=http://www.bobdylan.com/setlists/?id_song=26001 |author=<!--Not stated--> |website=bobdylan.com |publisher=Sony Music Entertainment |access-date=7 October 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200106015233/http://www.bobdylan.com/setlists/?id_song=26001 |archive-date=January 6, 2020 |url-status=live }}</ref> The most recent live performance as of October 2020 was on 28 August 2018 at [[Christchurch Arena|Horncastle Arena]], Christchurch, New Zealand.<ref name="BDTUIBSL" /> Dylan played the song solo on acoustic guitar during the first leg of the [[Rolling Thunder Revue]] tour in 1975, a performance of which is featured in Dylan's 1978 film ''[[Renaldo and Clara]]'' and which later became the song's official music video.<ref name="Trager2004">{{cite book|first=Oliver|last=Trager|title=Keys to the Rain: The Definitive Bob Dylan Encyclopedia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MuEHAQAAMAAJ|year=2004|publisher=Billboard Books|isbn=978-0-8230-7974-2|page=606|access-date=October 8, 2020|archive-date=July 29, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230729162733/https://books.google.com/books?id=MuEHAQAAMAAJ|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Citation|title=Bob Dylan - Tangled Up In Blue (Video)|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwSZvHqf9qM|language=en|access-date=2021-05-02|archive-date=May 2, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210502055947/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwSZvHqf9qM|url-status=live}}</ref> On the second leg of the Rolling Thunder Revue, in 1976, the song was performed with a full band in what [[Clinton Heylin]] has called a "gear-crunching heavy-metal" arrangement.<ref name="Heylin2010" /> The [[Bob Dylan World Tour 1978|1978 World Tour]] performances were slower, with a [[big band]].<ref name="Trager2004" /> After 1978, the next live performances were in [[Bob Dylan/Santana European Tour 1984|1984]],<ref name="BDTUIBSL" /> again solo on acoustic guitar but this time with radically reworked lyrics.<ref name="Heylin2010" /> Versions performed after 1984 have been closer to the original.<ref name="GRAYENC" />
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