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24 unusual facts about Bob Dylan


A Fire in the Sun

The title of the novel comes from "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue", a song by Bob Dylan: "Yonder stands your orphan with his gun / crying like a fire in the sun".

Alitalia Flight 112

In reality, the song is inspired by “Winterlude” of Bob Dylan.

Aust Ferry

The Martin Scorsese film No Direction Home about the life of Bob Dylan has a promotional shot of Dylan standing in front of the Aust ferry terminal in May 1966, not long before it closed for good.

Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits Vol. II

The "Wallflower" recording was set aside and would later be released on The Bootleg Series Volumes 1-3 (Rare & Unreleased) 1961-1991, but was recorded, with Dylan's backing vocal, for Doug Sahm's 1973 recording Doug Sahm and his Band.

After submitting a set of excerpts from the The Basement Tapes that Davis found unsatisfactory, Dylan returned to the studio in September 1971 to recut several Basement songs, with Happy Traum providing backup.

David Downing

In the 1970s, Downing contributed to the music magazine Let It Rock and published a study of utopian and science fiction explorations of the future in music, Future Rock, analysing the work of Bob Dylan, David Bowie, Pink Floyd and others.

Edward Rafeedie

During his tenure on the Superior Court, Rafeedie presided over several high-profile civil cases, including the contested conservatorship of Groucho Marx, the Britt Ekland and Rod Stewart palimony trial and part of the Bob Dylan divorce case.

Eric Lott

Bob Dylan is widely reported to have taken the title of his album Love and Theft from that of Lott's book; Lott, in turn, considered his own title "a riff on" Leslie Fiedler's Love and Death in the American Novel.

Feeding America

In August 2009, Columbia Records announced that all U.S. royalties from Bob Dylan's album Christmas in the Heart would be donated to Feeding America, in perpetuity.

FirstEnergy Park

It is also used for outdoor concerts, featuring touring musical artists such as Bob Dylan.

Grand Street and Grand Avenue

The street is referenced in songs and books from many local artists, including Bob Dylan ("Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again"), Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan ("I Don't Wanna Grow Up", popularized by the Ramones) and Matt & Kim (the title of their album Grand, as well as in the lyrics of their songs "Cameras" and "Daylight").

Histoplasmosis

Bob Dylan was hospitalized due to histoplasmosis in 1997, causing the cancellation of concerts in the United Kingdom and Switzerland.

History of the Dylan programming language

August 1994: After Apple distributes Dylan CDs at WWDC, folk singer Bob Dylan sues Apple for trademark infringement.

Joëlle Mogensen

She began singing at a young age and as a fan of Bob Dylan, developed a folk song repertoire, appearing on American and Danish television variety shows, playing a guitar and singing.

Jones Street

Jones Street also features on the front cover of the 1963 Bob Dylan album, The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan.

LJVM Coliseum Annex

It also serves as an occasional concert venue, hosting Bob Dylan on two occasions, in 1991 and 2002.

María Sabina

Many 1960s celebrities visited María Sabina, including rock stars such as Bob Dylan, John Lennon, Mick Jagger and Keith Richards.

Mason Hoffenberg

In the 1960s, he replaced his literary friends with friends from the pop music world, including Bob Dylan, who he met in London.

Peter Gzowski

The song - advocating Canadian unity - was performed by Ian and Sylvia, as well as by Bob Dylan and The Band in their 1967 "Basement session".

Sears Centre

The venue opened on October 26, 2006, with performances by Duran Duran and Bob Dylan; it was estimated to attract over 750,000 visitors annually.

South Village

These South Village establishments were frequented by some of the most significant players in these cultural movements, including Bob Dylan, Jack Kerouac, James Agee, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Sam Shepard and Jackson Pollock.

The Oxford Companion to Music

The work was significantly broader in coverage than Scholes' original (there was for instance a perceptive article on Bob Dylan), and is the most extensively illustrated of the three versions.

Wootton Bridge

Bob Dylan was the main act that was featured at the concert.

Writings and Drawings

The book contained Dylan's lyrics from 1962's Bob Dylan to selections from 1971's Greatest Hits, Volume 2.


2003 Sundance Film Festival

At the 2003 Sundance Film Festival, unseasonably warm weather attracted record numbers of attendees, among them singing artist Bob Dylan.

Band of Gypsys

In some markets, including the UK, the album was released with a cover photograph that featured dolls of Hendrix, Brian Jones, Bob Dylan and British DJ John Peel, an early supporter of Hendrix.

Cardiff Rose

The album, produced by Mick Ronson, was recorded on the heels of Bob Dylan's Rolling Thunder Revue 1975 tour, in which both McGuinn and Ronson had participated.

City of Glenorchy

Some of the artists that have played here include: Dire Straits, INXS, Elton John, John Farnham, Kylie Minogue and Bob Dylan.

Colin Linden

He has worked with a wide variety of artists including Bruce Cockburn, Lucinda Williams, T-Bone Burnett, Colin James, Leon Redbone, Rita Chiarelli, Chris Thomas King, The Band, and Bob Dylan.

Cyril Tawney

Tawney's song, Sally Free And Easy, written in the late 1950s, was covered by numerous folk artists, including Carolyn Hester, Dorris Henderson and John Renbourn, Davey Graham, Pentangle, The Corries, Marianne Faithfull and Bob Dylan.

Dafydd Iwan

Dafydd Iwan's earliest material was Welsh translations of tunes by American folk / protest singers: Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, and Bob Dylan.

David Fennario

His pen name, "Fennario," given to him by a former girlfriend, is from a Bob Dylan song, "Pretty Peggy-O."

Dinkytown

Notable landmarks include the Dinky Dome (a former theological seminary converted to a food court), the Loring Pasta Bar (formerly Gray's Drug and also the building where Bob Dylan lived in Minneapolis), and Al's Breakfast (arguably the city's smallest restaurant).

Fairport Convention discography

Founded in 1967 and initially covering songs by artists such as Bob Dylan and Joni Mitchell, they developed a devoted niche following by providing electrified and upbeat versions of traditional folk tunes mixed with their own compositions.

Fox Oakland Theatre

It has hosted many concerts by various recognizable artists such as My Chemical Romance, Beirut, Air, Bob Dylan, Green Day, Wolfmother, Ween, Alice in Chains, Mastodon (band), Kylie Minogue, Animal Collective & The Decemberists since its opening.

Galen Tyrol

In the cliffhanger Season 3 finale, "Crossroads, Part II", he, along with Samuel Anders, Saul Tigh, and Tory Foster become aware that they are Cylons, based on hallucinatory music (which turns out to be a cover of "All Along The Watchtower" written by Bob Dylan) that only they can hear, and a "switch" Tyrol believes has gone off within them.

Gentleman's Pact

The third track, "Corrina, Corrina", is a traditional folk song and has been covered by many musicians including Bob Dylan.

Get Up, Stand Up: The Story of Pop and Politics

The series feature an impressive list of interviewees, including Joan Baez, Tom Paxton, Bono, David Bowie, Johnny Cash, Daniel Cohn-Bendit, Bob Dylan, Ice-T, Bob Geldof, Willie Nelson, Roger Waters, Bruce Springsteen, Pete Seeger, and Neil Young.

Hannah Trigwell

Sarabeth has previously played alongside the likes of Bob Dylan and Ray LaMontagne.

Jacksonville Coliseum

The Coliseum hosted hundreds of concerts and shows during its 43-year history, including Rush, Bob Dylan, Duran Duran, Billy Joel, Bon Jovi, Frank Sinatra, Jimi Hendrix, Elvis Presley, David Bowie, Bruce Springsteen, Led Zeppelin, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Journey, AC/DC, Deep Purple and Iron Maiden.

Jill Furmanovsky

She has photographed many of the biggest names in rock music, including: Bob Dylan, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Mike Oldfield, The Ramones, Bob Marley, Eric Clapton, Blondie, The Police, The Plea, The Clash, The Sex Pistols, The Pretenders and Oasis.

Judy Collins 3

He would later bring with him the acoustic arrangements of the Pete Seeger songs "Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There Is a Season" and "The Bells of Rhymney" (as well as the notion of covering Dylan-material in an unusual fashion) when he went on to co-found the folk rock group The Byrds, where they would get a full electrified rock'n'roll-band treatment.

Jules Siegel

His articles about Brian Wilson, Bob Dylan, Thomas Pynchon and other prominent Americans were primary (and often unique) sources of information based on his personal acquaintance and extensive direct interviews with the subjects.

Kate Maki

In 2005, Maki, Nathan Lawr, Ryan Bishops, Ruth Minnikin and Dale Murray participated in two national concert tours, A Midautumn Night's Dream and A Midwinter Night's Dream, which were reportedly inspired by Bob Dylan's Rolling Thunder Revue.

Khimki Forest

Asking Russian rock star Yuri Shevchuk, an outspoken critic of the highway's planned route, who had made headlines confronting Vladimir Putin in a face-to-face meeting in May, to join him on stage at a concert, Bono and Shevchuk sang a Bob Dylan tune (Knockin' on Heaven's Door) in front of 60,000 people.

Life Under Mike

Music was provided for the movie soundtrack by rock stars Bruce Springsteen and Bob Dylan.

Luke Faust

Luke’s contributions to music has been described in Bob Dylan's book Chronicles, and Dave Van Ronk's The Mayor of MacDougal Street.

Mbanx

It launched to much fanfare, with an advertising campaign featuring Bob Dylan's "The Times They Are a-Changin'".

Mountain City Four

In addition to the role of the McGarrigle sisters in the band, they are primarily remembered for popularizing a number of songs by Wade Hemsworth, including the National Film Board animated short The Log Driver's Waltz, as well as for Nissenson's recording of an early Bob Dylan concert in Montreal.

Murray Lerner

Produced and directed by Lerner, the film was a documentary shot between 1963 and 1966 at the Newport Folk Festival that included performances by Buffy Sainte-Marie, Donovan, Pete Seeger, Judy Collins, Bob Dylan, Peter, Paul & Mary, Johnny Cash and Joan Baez.

Norman Raeben

His students include Bob Dylan, Bernice Sokol Kramer, Carolyn Schlam, Andrew Gottlieb, Janet Cohn, John Smith, Diana Postel, Lori Lerner and Rosalyn (Roz) Jacobs and the photographer, Larry Herman.

Pastures of Plenty

The line "we come with the dust and we go with the wind" reappears as "that come with the dust and are gone with the wind" in Bob Dylan's Song to Woody.

Pereza

The band consider that they made a qualitative leap with “Animales” (2005) (Animals), which was produced by Nigel Walker (who had previously worked with Bob Dylan, Tom Petty and Aerosmith) and they also consider that the album achieved their aims and made them the rising stars of cool rock singing in the Spanish language.

Ragged Kingdom

The majority of the tracks are interpretations of traditional folk songs but also includes covers of Joy Division's "Love Will Tear Us Apart", Bob Dylan's "Seven Curses" and the Dan Penn & Chips Moman soul standard "Dark End of the Street".

Robert Meyer

His exhibition Icons of the 60's was made up of historical pictures in monumental sizes, mostly portraits of the musicians he had met during the 1960s, including John Lennon, Yoko Ono, The Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, Rory Gallagher, Roy Orbison, Julie Felix and Norwegian artists like Terje Rypdal and Wenche Myhre.

Saarlandhalle

It has hosted concerts by many famous artists, including A-ha, AC/DC, Chris De Burgh, Depeche Mode, Bob Dylan, Metallica, Pink Floyd, Sting and Uriah Heep, among others.

Shaved Fish

A Creem magazine reader's poll in 1975 included the album among the top five "Best Reissues" of 1975, placing fourth, behind two Rolling Stones compilations, Made in the Shade and Metamorphosis, and Bob Dylan's The Basement Tapes.

St. Jakobshalle

According to Bob Dylan's biography Chronicles: Volume One, he decided after a concert at St. Jakobshalle to go on the Never Ending Tour.

Steven Soles

Steven Soles, he was asked by Bob Dylan to join the band for his 1975-1976 "Rolling Thunder Revue" tour, and he also played with Dylan on Street Legal and the following tour, including the live album Bob Dylan at Budokan.

The Angry Young Them

"You Just Can't Win" was a Dylan inspired song about a gold digger, set in specific places in London such as Camden Town.

Tim Carmon

The roster of musicians with whom Carmon has performed, toured, written, or produced is lengthy: Eric Clapton, Babyface, Stevie Wonder, Paul McCartney, Queen Latifah, Marcus Miller, Sheryl Crow, Bob Dylan, Gladys Knight, B.B. King, Jamie Foxx, Earth Wind and Fire, Carlos Santana, Herbie Hancock, Michael McDonald, Mary J. Blige, David Sanborn and more.

Trinh Cong Son

Trịnh Công Sơn wrote over 500 songs, and, during the 1960s and 1970s, Trần Văn Dĩnh dubbed him the Bob Dylan of Vietnam in Peace News of 8 November 1968 for his antiwar songs.

Uncle Dog

Most of the songs were penned by Dave Skinner, although there are a few covers, including Bob Dylan's "I'll Be Your Baby Tonight" (from John Wesley Harding) and Sam Phillips/Herman Parker's "Mystery Train".

Webb Pierce

Footage of Pierce singing "There Stands the Glass" was featured in the 2005 documentary No Direction Home by Martin Scorsese about early influences on Bob Dylan.

When Gravity Fails

The title is taken from "Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues", a song by Bob Dylan: "When your gravity fails and negativity don't pull you through".