'Like I was on ecstasy': When Bob Dylan is giving a concert only for you

'Like I was on ecstasy': When Bob Dylan is giving a concert only for you
(Image credit: Experiment Ensam/YouTube)

Fredrik Wikingsson may be one of the only people ever to get a solo Bob Dylan concert. Dylan wasn't playing solo — he had his band on stage — but Wikingsson was the only person in the Philadelphia Academy of Music concert hall on Sunday afternoon, Rolling Stone says, and that was the point.

The 41-year-old TV personality from Stockholm, a huge Dylan fan, convinced his filmmaker friend Anders Helgeson to let him be the subject of Helgeson's latest Experiment Ensam (Experiment Alone) film series, which captures people experiencing things by themselves that are usually reserved for large crowds.

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Peter has worked as a news and culture writer and editor at The Week since the site's launch in 2008. He covers politics, world affairs, religion and cultural currents. His journalism career began as a copy editor at a financial newswire and has included editorial positions at The New York Times Magazine, Facts on File, and Oregon State University.