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unusual facts about Dylan


Purple Day

Canadian Paul Shaffer of the Late Show with David Letterman was one of many special guests that attended the official launch at Dylan's Candy Bar in New York City.


2006 Kansas State Wildcats football team

Josh Freeman threw for 196 yards in relief of starter Dylan Meier, including a 68-yard pass to Yamon Figurs and a 55-yard hook-up with Jermaine Moriera, but five turnovers, including three in the red zone helped keep the Wildcats off the scoreboard.

A Simple Twist of Fate

:For the Bob Dylan song with a similar name, see Simple Twist of Fate.

Bob Dylan and The Band 1974 Tour

Dylan's wife, Sara, was present at those final shows, and during the final show of the tour (which took place on Valentine's Day), Dylan broke from the standard setlist to play Sara's favorite song, "Mr. Tambourine Man".

Bob Dylan: The Collection

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

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.

Boys' Night

Meanwhile, Haley (Sarah Hyland) babysits Lily at Mitchell and Cam's while they are out with their friends, and sneaks Dylan (Reid Ewing) in, despite the fact he's not allowed.

Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window?

Les Fradkin covers it in his 2006 Dylan cover album If Your Memory Serves You Well.

Carolyn Dennis

Their marriage and parenthood was completely unknown to both Dylan's fans and the media until the 2001 publication of Down the Highway: The Life Of Bob Dylan by Howard Sounes.

Chronicles: Volume One

At the end of the book, Dylan describes with great passion the moment when he listened to the Brecht/Weill song "Pirate Jenny", and the moment when he first heard Robert Johnson’s recordings.

Cory Sullivan

His wife gave birth to daughter Riley Dylan at 2:10 a.m. on July 5, 2007 at Rose Medical Center in Denver, Colorado.

Daniel Kelaart

Daniel is the frontman of the pop rock band Remission Theory, however has also launched a career as an independent record producer where he has produced, engineered, mixed or written tracks for various bands such as For Our Hero, The Paperkites, Simple Plan, Antiskeptic, Declan Sykes, Michael Paynter, Have You Seen This Boy, Hometown, Dylan Joel, and Delamare.

Daniel Percival

He will be seen as Dylan in the forthcoming vampire themed action movie Against the Dark starring Steven Seagal, Linden Ashby and Tanoai Reed.

David Bierk

Among David Bierk's children are actress Dylan Bierk, professional hockey goal tender Zac Bierk, Toronto based photographer Jeff Bierk, Toronto based painters Alex Bierk, Nick Bierk and Charles Bierk and former lead singer of Skid Row Sebastian Bach.

David Mansfield

Since The Alpha Band broke up, Mansfield has continued to work as a musician in sessions for Dylan, Burnett, Johnny Cash, Nanci Griffith, Roger McGuinn, Sam Phillips, Mark Heard, The Roches, Edie Brickell, Spinal Tap, Lucinda Williams, Dwight Yoakam, Victoria Williams, Loudon Wainwright III, Chris Hillman and Herb Pedersen and others.

After the Revue ended in 1976, Mansfield and two other members of Dylan's band, T-Bone Burnett and Steven Soles, formed The Alpha Band.

Det är så jag säger det

Hellström's style of borrowing is also apparent in the cover design, which bears a slight stylistic resemblance to Bob Dylan's 1964 album The Times They Are a-Changin'.

Drifter's Escape

Biographer Clinton Heylin has noted that in writing "Drifter's Escape", Dylan found a new, economical style that allowed him to tell a five-act story in just three verses.

Dylan Duventru

Dylan Ludovic Duventru-Huret (born 3 January 1989 in Villepinte), commonly known as simply Dylan in Portugal, is a French football player who currently plays for Portuguese club Marítimo in the Portuguese Liga.

Dylan Greenberg

Dylan also directed a two-minute film called "The Sky is Blue" featuring an appearance from Hedda Lettuce, a seven-minute film entitled "The House of Cold and Winter" starring Steven Grillo, and

Dylan is often credited as the inventor of the "Grobn'm" film movement and in 2013 released their 18 minute short film "The Great Reverse Gratsby," a parody of The Great Gatsby set to be released on the same day as the Leonardo DiCaprio film.

Dylan Hudecki

Dylan Hudecki (born in Hamilton, Ontario) is a Canadian musician, who has been associated with the bands By Divine Right, Cowlick and Junior Blue.

Dylan Hughes

Dylan John Hughes (born 23 January 1985 in Vancouver) is a former Canadian born Welsh footballer and current director of sport from Bayernliga side SC Fürstenfeldbruck.

Dylan Keefe

Although Dylan is still a part of the rock trio today, for a limited time he was the Technical Director for the weekly public radio program On the Media, based in New York City, and the Technical Director on another NYC-based public radio program The Takeaway.

Dylan Marcel

Dylan Marcel is a Canadian contractor and the host of the show Save Us from Our House, which airs on the W Network in Canada.

From Newport to the Ancient Empty Street in L.A.

It contains recordings of Dylan performing at the Newport Folk Festival in July 1964 and July 1965.

Gotta Serve Somebody: The Gospel Songs of Bob Dylan

The companion documentary DVD on Image Entertainment premieres 1980 archival footage of Bob Dylan performing "When He Returns" and features interviews with Dylan musicians: Jim Keltner, Spooner Oldham, Regina McCrary, Fred Tackett, Terry Young, Mona Lisa Young and producer Jerry Wexler.

It Ain't Me Babe

Clinton Heylin reports that a Times reporter at a May 1964 Royal Festival Hall concert where Dylan first played "It Ain't Me" took the lines "no, no, no, it ain't me babe" as a parody of The Beatles' "She Loves You".

Dylan's biographers generally agree that the song owes its inspiration to his former girlfriend Suze Rotolo.

Jag rear ut min själ! Allt skall bort!!!

The title of "bob hunds 115:e dröm" is inspired by Bob Dylan's song "Bob Dylan's 115th Dream" from his famous album Bringing It All Back Home

Jenny O'Hara

In the 1960s she appeared in the dramatic play Dylan opposite Sir Alec Guinness, and in the short-lived musical The Fig Leaves Are Falling with Dorothy Loudon.

Joseph Duncan

Joseph E. Duncan III (born 1963), convicted sex offender and murderer in the 2005 kidnapping of Shasta and Dylan Groene and the murder of their family and 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.

Kisses

Kylie and Shane seize on the idea that they will attempt to find Dylan's brother, but all they know of his last whereabouts is that he was living in a squat on Gardiner Street.

Let Me Die In My Footsteps

In the booklet that accompanied The Bootleg Series Volumes 1–3, Todd Harvey wrote that "Let Me Die in My Footsteps" has no clear melodic precedent and suggests that this may be the first song for which Dylan created an original melody.

Live at Carnegie Hall 1963

Four other songs from this night's show (and not present here) have been released on previous Bob Dylan compilations: "Talkin' John Birch Paranoid Blues" and "Who Killed Davey Moore?" were originally released on The Bootleg Series Volumes 1–3 (Rare & Unreleased) 1961–1991, while "A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall" and "When the Ship Comes In" were released on The Bootleg Series Vol. 7: No Direction Home: The Soundtrack.

Love Is a Four Letter Word

"Love Is Just a Four-Letter Word", a song by Bob Dylan, notably recorded by Joan Baez

Marcus Dent

However, Eileen tells Marcus about Dylan and Marcus supports Sean and they decide to go and collect Dylan but after Jason Grimshaw (Ryan Thomas) makes a remark about Sean and Dylan, causing Sean to have second thoughts but Marcus eventually persuades him to go and get Dylan.

Moonlite BunnyRanch

In September 2008, a 22-year-old woman calling herself Natalie Dylan announced on The Howard Stern Show that she would auction off her virginity on the BunnyRanch website, and that the act would be consummated at the ranch.

Mountain Stage

Over the years, the show has featured such international luminaries as Phish, Barenaked Ladies, Galactic, Bruce Hornsby, the Derek Trucks Band, Chris Thile, Bell X-1, Judy Collins, They Might Be Giants, Norah Jones, Hubert Sumlin & Pinetop Perkins, Charles Brown, Martina McBride, Little Big Town, Amos Lee, Joan Baez, Jakob Dylan and Regina Spektor, as well as Kathy Mattea, Tim O'Brien and over a hundred West Virginia artists.

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The show's cast also includes Ishan Davé as Sandi, Shawn Erker as Oscar, Rachel Colwell as Crystal, Ingrid Nilson as Patti, Magda Apanowicz as Alex, Nolan Gerard Funk as Ben, Ephraim Ellis as Dylan, Katlin Long-Wright as Heath and Matthew Strongeagle as Michael.

Sean Wilentz

The book contained essays on Dylan's relationship to Aaron Copland, Allen Ginsberg and the Beat generation, and the recording of Blonde on Blonde.

Series of Dreams

It is one of Dylan's major works of the 1980s and has surrealistic lyrics which differ from Dylan's earlier surrealistic songs such as "Desolation Row" and "Visions of Johanna".

Sidney Michaels

Sidney Michaels (August 17, 1927 – April 22, 2011) was an American playwright best known for the early and mid 1960s works Tchin-Tchin, Dylan, and Ben Franklin in Paris.

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.

Tatiana Maslany

Maslany portrayed the lead character Dylan in the independent film Cas & Dylan, for which she won a Philip Borsos Award for Best Performance at the 2013 Whistler Film Festival.

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 Bootleg Series Vol. 7: No Direction Home: The Soundtrack

Dylan's old girlfriend Suze Rotolo also granted a rare interview, and she later told Rolling Stone Magazine that she was very pleased with the project's results.

The Revenge Files of Alistair Fury

The opening title sequence is based on Bob Dylan's video for Subterranean Homesick Blues.

Tito Burns

Burns appeared in D. A. Pennebaker's 1965 film Dont Look Back which documented Bob Dylan's first UK tour, which Burns promoted.

Travels with Scout

Dylan (Reid Ewing) has bad news that the drummer of his band is moving to Portland because his parents are getting back together.


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