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Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan is an American singer-songwriter. Described as one of the greatest songwriters of all time, Dylan has been a major figure in popular culture over his 69-year career. Dylan added increasingly sophisticated lyrical techniques to the folk music of the early 1960s, infusing it "with the intellectualism of classic literature and poetry". His lyrics incorporated political, social, and philosophical influences, defying pop music conventions and appealing to the burgeoning counterculture.
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“And if my thought-dreams could be seen,They’d probably put my head in a guillotine,But it’s alright, Ma, it’s life, and life only. (ang.)”
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“I think a poet is anybody who wouldn't call himself a poet. Anybody who could possibly call himself a poet just cannot be a poet.”
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“If the songs are dreamed, it's like my voice is coming out of their dream.”
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“I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.”
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“At certain times I read a lot of poetry. My favorite poets are Shelley and Keats. Rimbaud is so identifiable. Lord Byron. I don't know. Lately if I read poems, it's like I can always hear the guitar. Even with Shakespeare's sonnets I can hear a melody because it's all broken up into timed phrases so I hear it. I always keep thinking, 'What kind of song would this be?”
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“I wanted just a song to sing, and there came a certain point where I couldn't sing anything. So I had to write what I wanted to sing 'cos nobody else was writing what I wanted to sing.”
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“I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet.”
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“I used to think that myself and my songs were the same thing. But I don't believe that any more. There's myself and there's my song, which I hope is everybody's song.”
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“You have to be let alone to really accomplish anything.”
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“I accept chaos. I am not sure whether it accepts me. I know there are some people terrified of the bomb, but there are others terrified to be seen carrying a Modern Screen magazine. Experience teaches that silence terrifies the most.”
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“I am speaking for me. Maybe some of this is true for you to. I don”
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“I wrote it thinking about one of my boys and not wanting to be too sentimental”
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“s head of program practices that”
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oigo.com: Bob Dylan quedó fascinado con este legendario músico: "El más grande"
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Indie Hoy: El músico que cautivó a Bob Dylan: "El más grande de los grandes"
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ABC7 Chicago: 'Windy City Weekend' talks back-to-school; singer Brooklyn Dylan performs latest single, 'Ghost'
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Playbill: David Iacono, Owen Painter, Jack Dylan Grazer, Laurie Hernandez Will Lead Industry Reading of Makaio Toft's Heat
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Libertad Digital: Encapuchado, tacaño y aburrido: el ocaso de Bob Dylan
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Lead Stories rated the claim “Stevie Nicks, Tom Brady, Wilie Nelson, Bob Dylan, Elon Musk or three dozen other entertainers, sports stars, or media figures defended Donald Trump from accusations he's authoritarian and trying to cancel elections,” Viet Spam.
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Dylan released The Bootleg Series Vol
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Lead Stories rated the claim “Bob Dylan said "If you want people to speak kindly after you’re gone, speak kindly while you’re alive" in response to the death of Charlie Kirk” Not Bob Too.
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Dylan released The Complete Budokan 1978, containing the full recordings of the February 28 and March 1 Tokyo concerts from his 1978 Tour
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Christie's, London, auctioned a 2021 recording of Dylan singing "Blowin' in the Wind"
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Released album “Rough and Rowdy Ways”.
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Dylan released another new song, "I Contain Multitudes"
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Coinciding with the Covid-19 pandemic, Dylan released "Murder Most Foul", a seventeen-minute song revolving around the Kennedy assassination, on his YouTube channel
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Netflix released Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese, billed as "Part documentary, part concert film, part fever dream"
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Released album “Triplicate”.
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Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature — for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition.
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Snopes.com rated the claim “Singer-songwriter Bob Dylan has rejected his Nobel Prize Award for Literature.” False.
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The Nobel committee announced that it would award Dylan the prize "for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition"
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Released album “Fallen Angels”.
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Released album “Shadows in the Night”.
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Released album “The 50th Anniversary Collection”.
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Released album “Tempest”.
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Released album “L’Explosion Rock: 61/66”.
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Released album “The Real Bob Dylan”.
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Released album “Super Hits”.
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Released album “Folk Singer‐Humdinger: Just About as Good as It Gets!”.
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Released album “Pure Dylan”.
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Released album “Beyond Here Lies Nothin’: The Collection”.
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The universities of Mainz, Vienna, and Bristol invited literary critics and historians to give papers on Dylan's work
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Released album “The Best of the Original Mono Recordings”.
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Released album “The Bootleg Series, Vol. 9: The Witmark Demos: 1962–1964”.
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Released album “Playlist: The Very Best of Bob Dylan '80s”.
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Released album “The Original Mono Recordings”.
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Released album “Original Album Classics”.
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Released album “Christmas in the Heart”.
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Released album “The Collection”.
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Released album “Together Through Life”.
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Released album “Playlist: The Very Best of Bob Dylan '60s”.
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Released album “Playlist: The Very Best of Bob Dylan '70s”.
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Released album “The Bob Dylan 60’s Collection”.
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Gave the highest profile endorsement of his career to date, appearing with rapper will
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Released album “2cd: Highway 61 Revisited / Blonde on Blonde”.
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Released album “The Bootleg Series, Vol. 8: Tell Tale Signs: Rare and Unreleased 1989–2006”.
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The Pulitzer Prize jury awarded him a special citation for "his profound impact on popular music and American culture, marked by lyrical compositions of extraordinary poetic power"
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Rotolo published a memoir about her life in Greenwich Village and relationship with Dylan in the 1960s, A Freewheelin' Time
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And the 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature "for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition"
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Released album “All Time Best”.
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Columbia Records released the triple CD retrospective Dylan, anthologizing his entire career under the Dylan 07 logo
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Released album “Time Out of Mind / Love and Theft”.
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Released album “Blues”.
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Released album “Modern Times”.
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With his weekly program, Theme Time Radio Hour, on XM Satellite Radio
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Released album “The Best of Bob Dylan”.
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Released album “Bob Dylan's American Journey: 1956-1966”.
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And in 2011, Rolling Stone listed it as number one on "The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time"
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Released album “Oh Mercy / Time Out of Mind / Love & Theft”.
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“was the true voice of the American spirit. I said to myself I was going to be Guthrie”
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Dylan published the first part of his memoir, Chronicles: Volume One
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When Dylan appeared in a TV advertisement for Victoria's Secret
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Released album “Lovesick”.
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Released album “Limited Edition Catalog Box Set”.
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Dylan revisited the evangelical songs from his Christian period and participated in the project Gotta Serve Somebody: The Gospel Songs of Bob Dylan
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Dylan remembered: "Johnny wrote the magazine saying to shut up and let me sing, that I knew what I was doing
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Released album “Greatest Hits Volumes I–III”.
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Released album ““Love and Theft””.
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Released album “The Ultimate Collection”.
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Released album “The Best of Bob Dylan, Volumes 1 & 2”.
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Dylan won an Academy Award for Best Original Song for "Things Have Changed", written for the film Wonder Boys
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Released album “The Essential Bob Dylan”.
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Released album “The Best of Bob Dylan, Volume 2”.
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Released album “The Very Best of Bob Dylan”.
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Released album “The Times They Are A‐Changin’ / Another Side of Bob Dylan”.
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Released album “Cocaine Blues”.
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Released album “11 grandes éxitos en versión original”.
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Released album “Time Out of Mind”.
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Released album “The Best of Bob Dylan, Volume 1”.
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US President Bill Clinton presented Dylan with a Kennedy Center Honor in the East Room of the White House, saying: "He probably had more impact on people of my generation than any other creative artist
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And the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2012
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Gordon Ball of the Virginia Military Institute nominated Dylan for the Nobel Prize in Literature, initiating a campaign that lasted for 20 years
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Released album “Bob Dylan’s Greatest Hits, Volume 3”.
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Released album “All I Really Want to Do”.
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Released album “World Gone Wrong”.
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Released album “Mr. Tambourine Man”.
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Released album “Blowin' In The Wind”.
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Released album “Good as I Been to You”.
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The thirtieth anniversary of Dylan's debut album was celebrated with a concert at Madison Square Garden, christened "Bobfest" by Neil Young and featuring John Mellencamp, Stevie Wonder, Lou Reed, Eddie Vedder, Dylan and
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Released album “Blood on the Tracks + Another Side of Bob Dylan”.
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Released album “The Bootleg Series, Volumes 1–3: 1961–1991: Rare and Unreleased”.
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Released album “Under the Red Sky”.
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Released album “John Wesley Harding + Nashville Skyline”.
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And 1991 Dylan was described by his biographers as drinking heavily, impairing his performances on stage
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Released album “The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan / The Times They Are A‐Changin’ / Another Side Of Bob Dylan”.
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Released album “Highway 61 Revisited & John Wesley Harding”.
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Released album “Forever Young”.
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Released album “Blowing in the Wind”.
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19894 items
Released album “Oh Mercy”.
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Released album “The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan + Nashville Skyline”.
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And 1991, he appeared on the Chabad telethon
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Released album “Bob Dylan”.
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Performing with a back-up band featuring guitarist G
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Released album “Down in the Groove”.
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Released album “The Times They Are A-Changin'”.
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Resulting in the live album Dylan & The Dead, which received negative reviews; Erlewine said it was "quite possibly the worst album by either Bob Dylan or the Grateful Dead"
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Dylan starred in Richard Marquand's movie Hearts of Fire, in which he played Billy Parker, a washed-up rock star turned chicken farmer whose teenage lover (Fiona) leaves him for a jaded English synth-pop sensation (Ruper
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Released album “Knocked Out Loaded”.
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And 1987, Dylan toured with Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, sharing vocals with Petty on several songs each night
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Released album “Biograph”.
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Appeared at the Live Aid concert at JFK Stadium, Philadelphia
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Released album “Empire Burlesque”.
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Dylan sang on USA for Africa's famine relief single "We Are the World"
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Released album “Infidels”.
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Released album “Shot of Love”.
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Stephen Holden wrote in The New York Times that "neither age (he's now 40) nor his much-publicized conversion to born-again Christianity has altered his essentially iconoclastic temperament"
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Released album “Saved”.
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Released album “Slow Train Coming”.
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Released album “Street‐Legal”.
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Released album “Masterpieces”.
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It received negative, sometimes scathing, reviews
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“I had a couple of bad years. I put a lot of money into the movie, built a big house ... and it costs a lot to get divorced in California.”
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Dylan embarked on a year-long world tour, performing 114 shows in Japan, the Far East, Europe and North America, to a total audience of two million
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Released album “Il Meglio Di Bob Dylan N. 2”.
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Released album “Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits, Volume I”.
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Released album “Desire”.
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Released album “The Basement Tapes”.
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Released album “Blood on the Tracks”.
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Released album “Planet Waves”.
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Released album “Dylan”.
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Dylan joined Sam Peckinpah's film Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid, providing the soundtrack and playing "Alias", a member of Billy's gang
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Released album “Bob Dylan’s Greatest Hits, Vol. II”.
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Dylan recorded "George Jackson", which he released a week later
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Attracted media coverage as his live appearances had become rare
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Dylan visited Israel, and also met Rabbi Meir Kahane, founder of the New York-based Jewish Defense League
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19703 items
Released album “New Morning”.
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Released album “Self Portrait”.
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“He was kind of like a Colonel Tom Parker figure ... you could smell him coming.”
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19693 items
After rejecting overtures to appear at the Woodstock Festival closer to home
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Released album “Nashville Skyline”.
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“I was on the road for almost five years. It wore me down. I was on drugs, a lot of things ... just to keep going, you know?”
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19674 items
Released album “John Wesley Harding”.
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Released album “Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits 2”.
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Released album “Bob Dylan’s Greatest Hits, Vol. III”.
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Released album “Greatest Hits”.
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Dylan crashed his motorcycle, a Triumph Tiger 100, near his home in Woodstock, New York
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Released album “Blonde on Blonde”.
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Released album “Bob Dylan’s Greatest Hits”.
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And end with the Royal Albert Hall concert in London on May 27
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Dylan ceased touring for seven years
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19654 items
Dylan quietly married 25-year-old former model Sara Lownds
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Released album “Highway 61 Revisited”.
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Headlining the Newport Folk Festival, Dylan performed his first electric set since high school with a pickup group featuring Mike Bloomfield on guitar and Al Kooper on organ
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Released album “Bringing It All Back Home”.
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Released album “Another Side of Bob Dylan”.
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Released album “The Times They Are A‐Changin’”.
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“The Times They Are a-Changin'”
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“Advice for Geraldine on Her Miscellaneous”
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Released album “The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan”.
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And 1964, but in 1965 he was met with cheering and booing and left the stage after three songs
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Dylan legally changed his name to Robert Dylan in the St
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To his motorcycle crash in 1966, featuring interviews with Suze Rotolo, Liam Clancy, Joan Baez, Allen Ginsberg, Pete Seeger, Mavis Staples and Dylan himself
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19592 items
17-year-old Dylan saw Buddy Holly perform at the Duluth Armory, four days before Holly's fatal plane crash
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Dylan's high school yearbook carried the caption "Robert Zimmerman: to join 'Little Richard'"
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“s family was originally from the Kağızman District of Kars Province, northeastern Turkey. Dylan”
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