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22 unusual facts about Bob Dylan


2003 Sundance Film Festival

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

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.

Boiestown, New Brunswick

Bob Dylan's Ballad of Donald White is adapted from the music and words of Peter Emberley.

City of Glenorchy

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

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.

David Fennario

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

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.

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.

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.

Kitchener Memorial Auditorium Complex

The facility has also hosted major events including concerts by Led Zeppelin, KISS, Bob Dylan, Elton John, WCW Monday Nitro, Backstreet Boys, Michael Bublé, Hilary Duff; the Scott Tournament of Hearts, Four Nations Cup, Homesense Skate Canada International, the World Junior Figure Skating Championships, NBA exhibition games, and more!

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.

Mbanx

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

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.

Southerndown

It was also featured in the Bob Dylan film Hearts of Fire, with Dylan looking out over the second beach down onto Rupert Everett.

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.

Sugar Ramos

Bob Dylan wrote a song about the event where Davey Moore succumbed to death while posing the question of public responsibility.

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.

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.


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".

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.

Billy Pettinger

Pettinger has been the primary songwriter in all of her original projects and has collaborated with such artists as Garth Hudson from The Band and Bob Dylan, Randy Cooke of Dave Stewart's Rock Fabulous Orchestra and Ringo Starr and Stan "the Baron" Behrens, who played with Willie Dixon, Ruth Brown and the Four Tops.

Bob Dylan: The Collection

Bob Dylan: the Collection was the third iTunes complete digital album, following The Complete U2 and The Complete Stevie Wonder.

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.

CCM Magazine

Since its start, CCM has covered musical artists that mix spiritual themes with their music, including Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, T Bone Burnett, Victoria Williams, The Call, Sam Phillips, U2 and Bruce Cockburn, as well as more mainstream Christian radio artists such as Amy Grant, Larry Norman, Michael W. Smith, Steven Curtis Chapman, Benny Hester, Steve Taylor, Phil Keaggy and Randy Stonehill.

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.

Delia Green

Among the many singers who have covered "Delia" are Bob Dylan and David Bromberg.

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.

Gentleman's Pact

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

Here We Are Again

It was released in 1966 as the band's second single on Warner Bros. Records, following their cover of Bob Dylan's "One Too Many Mornings," released earlier that year.

I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry

Bob Dylan sings a version of the song in his hotel room in the documentary film Dont Look Back.

Jones Street

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

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.

Kathrin Passig

She also works as a translator, among her translations are works by William Leonard Marshall, Bob Dylan, Jacob Weisberg, and Harlan Coben.

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.

Kiko Veneno

During his travels he attended concerts of artists like Frank Zappa, and Bob Dylan which influenced his style.

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.

María Sabina

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

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.

On Tour with Eric Clapton

As no pictures of Delaney and Bonnie were deemed good enough for the album cover, a photo was used instead of a Rolls-Royce Silver Dawn in a desert, reportedly taken by manager Barry Feinstein while working as a photographer covering a Bob Dylan tour in 1966.

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.

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.

Ruth Minnikin

In 2005, she collaborated with Ryan Bishops, Nathan Lawr, Kate Maki and Dale Murray 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.

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.

Saint Andrew's Hall

St. Andrews has hosted famous breakthrough acts during the '80s and '90s, such as Iggy Pop, Bob Dylan, Paul Simon, The Verve, Nirvana and Red Hot Chili Peppers.

Sal Valentino

After a hiatus from music, Valentino contributed to a 2003 Bob Dylan tribute album, Positively 12th and K, with musician Jackie Greene.

Spanish Harlem Incident

"Spanish Harlem Incident" is a song written and performed by Bob Dylan and was released on his 1964 album, Another Side of Bob Dylan, on August 8, 1964 (see 1964 in music).

Spanish is the Loving Tongue

Over the years, the song was recorded by many top recording artists, including Bob Dylan, Ian and Sylvia, Judy Collins, Marianne Faithfull, Emmylou Harris, and Michael Martin Murphey.

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.

The Chicken Song

On the Spit in Your Ear album, the "Celebrity Mega Mix" version of "The Chicken Song" was included, which features celebrities like Bruce Springsteen, Bob Dylan and Tina Turner singing the lyrics.

Wootton Bridge

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

You're Amazing

In Japan, the three track CD featured "You're Amazing", Palmer's previous leading single, a cover of Bob Dylan's 1967 "I'll Be Your Baby Tonight" from 1990 and its non-album B-side "Deep End", written by Palmer and British reggae band UB40.