January
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Liturgy |
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| January 5 |
Flies to Rome to join Odetta and to try and locate Suze Rotolo. She has
however just returned to the US. He performs at a folk club in Rome and writes both
"Girl From The North Country" and "Boots Of Spanish Leather". |
"Girl From The North Country" and "Boots Of Spanish
Leather". |
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| January 5 |
World Gone Wrong is nominated for a Grammy in the Traditional Folk Album
category. |
WGW |
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| January 6,9 |
Telephone conversations between Dylan and A.J. Weberman about an intended
article by Weberman. The conversation on the 9th is recorded. The date is given as 19th by
Krogsgaard. |
Idiot Wind… |
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| January 12 |
Release of 'A Tribute to Woody Guthrie, Part One' |
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| January 12 |
Toad's Place, New Haven, Connecticut. 4 hours. Many covers, first time
songs, requests taken with a smile. This is really a long public rehearsal and no acoustic
set is included. |
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| January 13 |
Release of THE TIMES THEY ARE A-CHANGIN' |
Times |
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| January 14-15 |
Dylan appear as Blind Boy Grunt on some six tracks during the recording of
the album "Dick Farina" and Eric von Schmidt" |
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| January 14-15 |
Recording of BRINGING IT ALL BACK HOME. |
BIABH |
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| January 16 |
Dylan makes a surprise appearance at the Bill Clinton Inauguration Concert
at Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., the same place where he thirty years earlier sang
"Only A Pawn In Their Game" during the Washington Rights March. This time he
sings "Chimes Of Freedom" backed by a big band led by Quincy Jones and watched
by the presidential family, whose members seem to find the performance great (Bill),
hilarious (Hilary) and odd (Chelsea). |
It's allright ma |
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| January 16 |
Release of DESIRE |
DESIRE |
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| January 17 |
Release of PLANET WAVES |
PW |
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| January 17 |
Release of BLOOD ON THE TRACKS |
BOTT |
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| January 20 |
Dylan performs with Stevie Wonder at the Martin Luther King Day concert at
the John F. Kennedy Performing Arts Center in Washington, DC. |
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| January 20 |
First PAT GARRETT & BILLY THE KID session in Mexico City |
Billy |
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| January 20 |
Woody Guthrie Memorial Concert in Carnegie Hall, NYC. |
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| January 21 |
A new song based on the old English tune "Nottamun Town" is
performed at Gerde's Folk City. It is called "Masters Of War" |
Masters of war |
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| January 24 |
Dylan arrives in New York accompanied by his friend Fred Underhill,
heads for "Cafe Wha?" where he performs a couple of songs, after which the
compere asks the audience for a place to stay for "Bob and Fred" that night. |
Hard times in NY town |
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| January 25 |
Dylan visits Guthrie's family in Howard's Beach. Meets young Arlo and
teaches him some harmonica. |
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| January 25 |
First BLONDE ON BLONDE session with The Hawks in New York. |
Leopard skin, Sooner or later |
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| January 25 |
Renaldo & Clara opens in New York and Los Angeles and gets generally
bad reviews. |
Isis |
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| January 28 |
Dylan participates in the We Are The World recording session in
Hollywood. |
We are the world |
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| January 29 |
Dylan performs at Izzy Young's Folklore Centre. Meets Woody Guthrie at
the home of Sid and Bob Gleason in East Orange, New Jersey. |
Song to woody |
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| January 30 |
Dylan is given the French award Commander of Arts and Letters. He reads
from a piece of paper "a thousand thanks" in French and then translates. |
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| January 30 |
Flashback, the soundtrack album to the movie Flashback, is released. On
CD, vinyl and cassette. It contains a new version of PEOPLE GET READY, evidently done with
Mellencamp during the fall POLITICAL WORLD video sessions. |
People get ready |
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February
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| February 3-22 |
Dylan, Victor Maimudes, Pete Karman and Paul Clayton make a
cross-country trip from New York to Los Angeles. |
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| February 6 |
Meets poet Carl Sandburg in Hendersonville, North Carolina. Like Robert
Graves in England, Sandburg is polite but rather unimpressed by Dylan. |
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| February 8 |
Eat The Document is released and shown at the New York Academy of
Music. This "documentary" was filmed and directed by D.A. Pennebaker (director
of Don't Look Back) during the European part of the 1966 world tour. It was later edited
by Dylan and Howard Alk. |
ETD |
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| February 8 |
Recording of the so called "Banjo Tape" in the basement of
Gerde's Folk City. |
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| February 11 |
First SAVED session (1980) |
Covenant woman |
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| February 12 |
Bob Dylan joins the Grateful Dead on stage at their show at the LA Forum.
He plays guitar on 8 songs and is finally persuaded (?) to sing on Knockin' On Heaven's
Door. Second SAVED session (1980) |
Solid Rock, What can I do for you?, Saved, A satisfied mind, |
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| February 13 |
Dylan starts performing regularly at Gerde's Folk City on the Monday night
hootenanny. Third SAVED session (1980) |
Saving Grace, Pressing on, In the garden |
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| February 13 |
Session for NASHVILLE SKYLINE |
To be alone with you, I threw it all away, One more night, (Lay lady
lay) |
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| February 14 |
NASHVILLE SKYLINE session in Nashville |
Peggy day, Tell me that it isn't true, Country Pie, Lay lady lay, |
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| February 14 |
In February The Gleasons are given a dated handwritten copy of a new
Dylan composition called "Song To Woody". Fourth SAVED session
(1980) |
Are you ready?, In the garden |
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| February 14 |
Recording for BLONDE ON BLONDE is resumed in Nashville with local
studio musicians. |
Fourth time around, VoJ, Leopard skin |
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| February 15 |
BLONDE ON BLONDE session (until 4:30 am) |
I'll keep it with mine, Sad eyed lady |
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| February 16 |
Dylan appears at a Rick Danko/Levon Helm concert at the Lone Star Cafe in
New York. |
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| February 16 |
BLONDE ON BLONDE session (until 7 am) |
Stuck inside of mobile |
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| February 17 |
During the show in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, a girl comes on stage and
gets to sing "The Time They Are A-Changin'" with Bob. |
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| February 17-18 |
The Johnny Cash sessions in Nashville |
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| February 20 |
Bob Dylan is given the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Grammy Awards
Ceremony at Radio City Music Hall in New York. The award is presented by Jack Nicholson.
After a short introductory speech by Nicholson a film of video clips is shown, featuring
an unseen sequence from Eat The Document (Ballad Of A Thin Man) and a few sequences from
the promotional video of the forthcoming single Series Of Dreams, an Oh Mercy outtake.
Dylan and the band then enter the stage and perform a really rough version of Masters Of
Wars sung with closed eyes in his most toneless voice. After this performance Dylan is
given the award and delivers this short acceptance speech: "Thank You ... well
... alright ... yeah, well, my daddy he didn't leave me too much ... you know he was a
very simple man and he didn't leave me a lot but what he told me was this ... what he did
say was ... son ... he said uh .... (long pause) ... he said so many things ya know .....
he said you know it's possible to become so defiled in this world that your own mother and
father will abandon you, and if that happen God will always believe in your own ability to
mend your ways. Thank you." |
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| February 22 |
Dylan receives the Grammy for 'Best Vocal Performance 1979' at the 22nd
Grammy Award at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles. In his acceptance speech he thanks
"The Lord, Jerry Wexler and Barry Beckett who believed". |
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| February 24,25 |
The two shows in Sydney are recorded and released in parts in
Westwood One's Superstar Concert Series. The shows are also filmed and 10 songs are
released on the HARD TO HANDLE video. |
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| February 25 |
The triple album MASTERPIECES is released in Japan. |
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March
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| March 1 |
Bob Dylan makes another surprise appearance at a Tom Petty concert at The
Forum in Los Angeles. |
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| March 1 |
Sara Dylan files for divorce. |
Sara, BOTT; Idiot wind |
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| March 1 |
World Gone Wrong gets a Grammy as best Traditional Folk Album! |
WGW |
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| March 4 |
Richard Manuel hangs himself in a motel room in Florida. |
I shall be Released |
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| March 8 |
BLONDE ON BLONDE sessions in Nashville. |
Absolutely sweet marie, Just like a woman, Pedging my time |
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| March 9 |
BLONDE ON BLONDE sessions in Nashville |
Most likely you…,Temporary like achilles, RDW, 5 believers, Leopard
skin, I want you |
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| March 12 |
Robert Shelton interviews Dylan on a flight between Lincoln, Nebraska and
Denver, Colorado. The interview is published twenty years later in Shelton's book "No
Direction Home". |
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| March 14 |
Daniel Kramer photographs Dylan and Sara Lowndes at Albert Grossman's
cabin in Woodstock. One shot is later included in Kramer's book about Dylan. |
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| March 15 |
Dylan is inducted into the Songwriters Hall Of Fame and is interviewed
by Jane Hansen. A short snippet is broadcast by NBC-TV, March 15 and by ABC-TV:s
"Good Morning America" on March 16. |
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| March 19 |
Dylan writes a poem for Izzy Young, called "Talking Folklore
Center" It is published as a broad-sheet by the Folklore Center, later 1962. |
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| March 19 |
The first self titled album is released. |
BOB DYLAN |
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| March 2 |
Dylan, playing harmonica and singing backup vocals, records with
Victoria Spivey and Big Joe Williams. Heylin attributes this session to October 21, 1961. |
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| March 22 |
Dylan appears with a new band called the Plugz at the TV show Late
Night With David Letterman. |
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| March 22 |
Release of BRINGING IT ALL BACK HOME. |
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| March 23 |
Release of the movie 'The Concert For Bangla Desh'. |
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| March 26 |
Release of single 'Series Of Dreams/Seven Curses' Release of the 3CD
(in Europe also 5LP) set THE BOOTLEG SERIES. |
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| March 27 |
Mike Porco, the owner of Gerde's Folk City, offers Dylan to be support act
to John Lee Hooker for a fortnight in April. |
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| March 27 |
Release of BOB DYLAN'S GREATEST HITS |
Anything you like… |
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| March 31 |
A Spring tour in Canada and the US East Coast starts in St. Johns,
Newfoundland, Canada. After more than five years and 692 shows, John Jackson is replaced
by Larry Campbell a session player from New York City. |
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| March 31 |
Dylan receives yet another award, this time the American Society of
Composers, Authors and Publishers Founder's Award. Press conference and Thank You Speech
at Chasen's Restaurant in Los Angeles are broadcast by CNN in "Showbiz Today".
Dylan is also interviewed briefly by Dick Shoemaker, and this broadcast by ABC in
"Entertainment Tonight". |
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April
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| April 5 |
First paid concert at the Loeb Music Center for the University of New
York Folk Society. In the audience is a young Suze Rotolo. Allen Ginsberg dies at
the age of 70 of a heart attack in his Lower East Side apartment in New York City. The
same night Dylan dedicates Desolation Row to Allen Ginsberg at the show In Moncton, New
Brunswick, Canada.
During the performance of Desolation Row Dylan is overcome by emotion and has to
stop singing. Dylan speaks briefly with Jackson and the band goes on playing while Dylan
goes to the back of the stage for a while. He then comes back and finishes the song. |
Desolation Row |
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| April 7 |
All Along The Watchtower is performed in concert for the 1000th time at
the show in Fredericton. |
AATW |
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| April 7 |
Caribbean Wind is recorded at Muscle Shoals. |
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| April 7 |
Release of 'The Last Waltz'. |
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| April 9 |
Release of NASHVILLE SKYLINE |
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| April 11 |
MTV Unplugged is released in Europe. |
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| April 11 |
The European tour ends in Dublin with a two hour show including guests
Elvis Costello, Van Morrison, and Carole King during the encores. After the show Dylan
hugs Carole King so hard that she falls off the stage and breaks her arm! |
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| April 11-25 |
Dylan plays a five song set as support to John Lee Hooker at Gerde's Folk
City. |
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| April 11-May 8 |
The INFIDELS recording sessions in New York. |
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| April 12 |
Town Hall concert. The concert programme features a new Dylan poem
"My Life In A Stolen Moment". this is the first concert in which Dylan performs
his own songs only. The concert is recorded by CBS for a possible live album. |
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| April 14 |
Dylan again tries Desolation Row but the same thing happens. His voice
breaks during the line "He was famous long ago for playing the electric violin".
Desolation row is next played in San Francisco, May 4, without interrupt. |
DRow |
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| April 16 or 23 |
At Gerde's Folk City Pete Seeger performs Blowin' In The Wind a new
song Bob Dylan taught him the chords to backstage, just before the performance. |
Blowin' |
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| April 18 |
The Rolling Thunder Revue starts it's second leg with a show at the Civic
Center in Lakeland, Florida. |
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| April 22 |
The shows (afternoon and evening) at the Bellevue Biltmore Hotel in
Clearwater is filmed for a TV special, Hard Rain, but the film is later rejected and
remains unreleased. |
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| April 24 - May 6 Gerde's Folk City. |
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| April 24 |
What is scheduled as the first recording session for THE TIMES THEY ARE
A-CHANGIN' turns out to be the last FREEWHEELIN' session. |
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| April 25 |
Recording for next album starts. |
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| April 26 |
Studs Terkel show on Chicago WFMT radio. Dylan performs seven songs,
including four new: "Farewell", "Bob Dylan's Dream", "Who Killed
Davey Moore" and "Boots Of Spanish Leather" |
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| April 28 |
Recording of "The Big Six-0", the Willie Nelson Birthday
Celebration in the Austin City Limits Studios. Dylan performs "Pancho And Lefty"
with Willie Nelson and later "Hard Times" with his touring band. There is also
an interview, parts of which are broadcasted in the TV-program, May 22. The whole thing is
released on video in early June. |
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May
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| May 1 |
"The George Harrison" session in New York |
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| May 5 |
"Dylan on Dylan, Unplugged and the birth of a song" is published
in USA Today. Another Edna Gundersen interview, probably conducted in late April. |
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| May 5 |
MTV Unplugged is released in USA. |
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| May 5 |
Release of MTV Unplugged commercial video. |
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| May 5 |
I married Isis |
Isis |
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| May 6 |
At the Indian Neck Folk Festival in Branford, Connecticut, Dylan performs
three songs and meets Bob Neuwirth for the first time. |
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| May 7 |
Premiere of 'Don't Look Back' at the Presido Theatre in San Fransisco. |
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| May 8 |
Shooting of the promotional film for "Subterranean Homesick
Blues" at the side of Savoy Hotel in London. "Actors" in the background are
Allen Ginsberg and Bob Neuwirth. The cards are painted by Alan Price and Joan Baez. |
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| May 10 |
Last show in Royal Albert Hall in London. |
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| May 11-19 |
The SLOW TRAIN COMING sessions in Muscle Shoals, Sheffield |
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| May 12 |
The "Ed Sullivan Show" incident. Dylan refuses to appear when
he is instructed not to play "Talkin' John Birch Paranoid Blues". |
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| May 16 |
Release of BLONDE ON BLONDE. |
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| May 17 |
The show in Manchester Free Trade Hall (1966) |
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| May 18 |
Monterey Folk Festival. Duet with Joan Baez on "With God On Our
Side" |
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| May 20-22 |
Dylan participates in The Great Music Experience, a three day concert in
Nara, Japan co-sponsored by UNESCO's World Decade For Cultural Development Project. This
is the first of a series of events which will be staged at important and beautiful
cultural sites each year until 2000. This year the "western world" artists that
joined various artists from Japan included Joni Mitchell, INXS, Ry Cooder, Jon Bon Jovi
and Richie Sambora |
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Dylan performed the same three songs each day: A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall,
I Shall Be Released and Ring Them Bells. He was backed by the New Tokyo Philharmonic
Orchestra and a backing group with the ubiquitous Jim Keltner on drums and the inevitable
Ray Cooper on percussion. Dylan's performance was nothing short of stunning. Made grown
men cry, as Q put it. Each concert ended with I Shall Be Released (again!) with all the
participating artists on stage. The last day was broadcast live on radio and TV in over 50
countries around the world. |
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| May 21 - Early June |
Dylan arrives in Paris where he stays with the French singer Hughes
Aufray. He also meets Nico, to whom he later donates his song "I'll Keep It With
Mine", which she includes on her first album. |
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| May 22 |
Dylan and the touring band without David Kemper perform three songs at a
Simon Wiesenthal Center benefit dinner in the International Room in the Beverly Hilton
Hotel in Los Angeles. The Ray Pennington/Ray Marcum song Stone Walls And Steel Bars is
performed for the first time. |
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| May 23 |
The show at the Hughes Stadium of the Colorado State University in Fort
Collins is filmed for the TV special, Hard Rain, later broadcast by NBC. |
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| May 24 |
Nativity |
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| May 25 |
Bob Dylan is admitted to hospital in Los Angeles with chest pain,
initially reported as a heart attack but later diagnosed as "histoplasmosis", an
infection of the sac surrounding the heart. The European summer tour, starting in the UK
with double bill shows with Van Morrison is cancelled. |
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| May 26 |
The Wallflowers' second album Bringing Down The Horse is released. |
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| May 27 |
Release of THE FREEWHEELIN' BOB DYLAN |
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| May 27 |
Royal Albert Hall, London. This turns out to be the last show of the
1966 World Tour. |
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| May 28 |
Release of For Our Children charity album. |
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| May 28 |
The first show in two and half years in Verona Italy starts up the
European tour. Probably Dylan's worst concert ever! |
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| May 29 |
Guest appearance at a Levon Helm concert at Lone Star Cafe |
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| May 31 |
Release of DOWN IN THE GROOVE |
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June
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| June 2 |
Dylan is released from the hospital. Columbia records issues The
following press release: "Bob Dylan was released from the hospital this weekend where
he had been undergoing medical tests and subsequent treatment for pericarditis brought on
by histoplasmosis. He was admitted on May 25. Doctors are continuing to treat him and are
confident that Mr. Dylan will make a full recovery in four to six weeks. |
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| June 2 |
THE BEST OF DYLAN is released. |
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| June 5 |
Death of Abraham Zimmerman, Dylan's father |
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| June 8 |
Release of EMPIRE BURLESQUE. |
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| June 8 |
Release of SELF PORTRAIT |
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| June 8 |
Suze Rotolo sails to Italy. |
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| June 9 |
Dylan accepts an honorary doctorate in music at Princeton University. |
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| June 9 |
In the only CBS recording session between October 1963 and January 1965
(!) Dylan records his last solo album, ANOTHER SIDE OF BOB DYLAN. |
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| June 10 |
The Shot Of Love tour starts with a show at the Hoffman Estates in Chicago
and is followed by three more "warm-up" shows in US before the European tour
starts in France, |
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| June 11 |
Release of Nobody's Child single. |
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| June 12 |
A series of transatlantic telephone interviews are organized to promote
the return to Europe: - with Tim Blackmore at the Capitol radio in London, broadcast June
15 - with Yves Bigot ar Radio Europe 1, Paris, broadcast in parts June 22 and June 23 -
with Paul Gambaccini at Radio One, BBC, broadcast in the 'Rock On' program, June 20 |
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| June 12 |
in London for the Fleadh Festival where Van Morrison precedes him and
later joins Dylan on "One Irish Rover". |
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| June 12 |
Rolling Stones magazine features an interview with Jakob Dylan in which he
for the first time talks about his father and his upbringing. Jakob also comments his
fathers recent illness and the fact the he was on tour in Europe at the time and decided
to continue the tour after having been assured that his fathers condition was not
critical. |
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| June 13 |
Dylan is interviewed by Jon Brem for the 'Minneapolis Star and
Tribune'. |
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| June 15 |
Dylan plays the first of five concerts as opening act "a very special
guest", for the Grateful Dead. |
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| June 15 |
Dylan starts a lengthy European Summer Tour in Aarhus, Denmark at The
Aarhus Festival. |
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| June 15 |
Release of STREET-LEGAL and first show in Europe since 1966 at Earl's
Court in London. |
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| June 15-16 |
Recording of SUBTERRANEAN HOMESICK BLUES starts in New York. |
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| June 16 |
Another interview by Nat Hentoff for The New Yorker. |
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| June 17 |
Bob Dylan answers telephone calls from listeners in the radio program
Rock-Line. |
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| June 17 |
First TV interview in nineteen years is given backstage at the Stade de
l'Ouest in Nice. Dylan is interviewed by Antoine de Caunes for the program 'Antenne
II'. |
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| June 19 |
Shot Of Love is at last released on compact disc. The disc contains 'Groom
Still Waiting At The Altar', thus being a release of the "new version" of Shot
Of Love from 1986. |
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| June 20 |
Release of BEFORE THE FLOOD |
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| June 20 |
Release of SAVED. |
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| June 20 |
Release of the HARD TO HANDLE video. |
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| June 22 |
First major review of the Basement Tapes entitled "The missing Bob
Dylan Album" published in Rolling Stone. |
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| June 25 |
At the last show of the spring tour in Washington DC, Jerry Garcia joins
the band playing guitar on the encores. |
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| June 26 |
Release of THE BASEMENT TAPES |
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| June 29 |
Dylan plays the MasterCard Masters of Music Concert for The Prince's Trust
in Hyde Park, London, together with Alanis Morrissette, Eric Clapton & The Who. Dylan
performs a shortened 9-song version of his regular set with guests Ron Wood and Al Kooper.
Three songs are broadcast in Europe in a special TV program from the concert. In the US
five are broadcast. |
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| July 2 |
Finjan Club in Montreal. Dylan's set is recorded. |
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| July 9 |
Second FREEWHEELIN' session in New York. |
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| July 13 |
Live Aid appearance with Keith Richards and Ron Wood. Dylan's proposal
to set aside a tiny amount of the raised money for the farmers inspires Willie Nelson to
organize Farm Aid. |
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| July 13 |
Release of PAT GARRETT & BILLY THE KID |
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| July 15 |
The European tour is concluded before some 200 000 people at the
Blackbushe Aerodrome in Camberley, UK. |
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| July 16 |
For the first time ever Dylan has to cancel a show due to medical
problems. His ailing back, which first started giving him problems in 1986, forces him to
cancel the show in Lyon at a very short notice, the rest of the band is already in Lyon
when the decision was made. |
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| July 17 |
The last show in Bern can be held as planned. Dylan shows no sign of
illness, nor does he play a shorter set than usual. |
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| July 20 |
Release of single 'Like A Rolling Stone/Gates Of Eden'. First hit single,
peaked at #2 in the US with a total of 12 weeks. In England it reached #4, also 12 weeks
in the Top 50. |
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| July 24 |
Dylan performs "All I Really Wanna Do" at the afternoon workshop
on the first of the Newport Folk Festival. |
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| July 24-26 |
Newport Folk Festival. Dylan is the major performer on July 26th and he
presents a new image to an audience of over fifteen thousand. His set contains no topical
songs but his new "All I Really Wanna Do", "To Ramona", "Mr
Tambourine Man" and "Chimes Of Freedom". For the encore he invites Joan
Baez and they sing "With God On Our Side". Reviews are mainly unfavorable. |
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| July 25 |
Famous live electric debut with the Paul Butterfield Blues Band. The
historic event is included in the film called "Festival". This year's programme
contains a new prose piece by Dylan called "Off The Top Of My Head". |
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| July 25 |
The third European tour ends with a tragic show in Avignon, France. First
a member of the crowd gets killed while somehow falling into the electric cables, causing
total blackout, and in the resulting confusion a girl falls off a wall and gets killed
too. Dylan and the band improvise acoustic rhythms on stage until power is restored. |
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| July 27 |
Dylan opens for The Rolling Stones in Montpellier, France, playing one of
his shortest sets ever, just 9 songs and no encores. Later Dylan joins The Rolling Stone
on, you guessed it, Like A Rolling Stone. The whole thing was recorded and filmed by The
Rolling Stones for a possible later single & video release, but as could be expected,
Dylan's contribution was less than impressive, so in the end they had to use another live
version for their fall release of the Stripped album and the accompanying CD single. |
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| July 28 |
First DESIRE session in New York. |
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| July 29 |
While riding around Albert Grossman's estate in Woodstock, Dylan falls
off his motorcycle and is hospitalized. All concert and radio/TV engagements for the rest
of the year are first put forward, then cancelled. |
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| July 30 |
Second DESIRE session in New York. |
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| July 31 |
Third DESIRE session in New York. |
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| July 31 |
Dylan is scheduled to appear at a benefit concert for the victims of the
Missippi floods in St Louis. The event, named CONCERT FOR THE HEARTLANDS, has to be
cancelled due to the never-ending rain. |
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August
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| August 1 |
The Concerts For Bangla Desh at the Madison Square Garden in NYC. |
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| August 2 |
Robert Allen Zimmerman legally changes his name to Bob Dylan. |
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| August 3, 4 |
Dylan plays two shows at a temporarily set up House Of Blues venue in the
Olympic village in Atlanta, Georgia. The shows are part of a series of several special
events during the closing days of the Olympic Games 1996. Both shows were professionally
filmed. |
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| August 6, 7 |
First and second recording sessions for THE TIMES THEY ARE A-CHANGIN' |
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| August 8 |
KNOCKED OUT LOADED is released. The "release an album, do a tour
to promote it" routine in reverse. |
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| August 8 |
Release of ANOTHER SIDE OF BOB DYLAN |
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| August 9 |
Jerry Garcia dies of a heart-attack at a California drug rehabilitation
center, Serenity Drug Treatment Center in Marin Co., California. |
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| August 10 |
Dylan is guest performer at Joan Baez' concert in Asbury Park, New
Jersey. |
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| August 10 |
The Bob Dylan press statement on Jerry Garcia is issued: "There's
no way to measure his greatness or magnitude as a person or as a player. I don't think any
eulogizing will do him justice. He was that great, much more than a superb musician, with
an uncanny ear and dexterity. He's the very spirit personified of whatever is Muddy River
country at its core and screams up into the spheres. He really had no equal. To me he
wasn't only a musician and friend, he was more like a big brother who taught and showed me
more than he'll ever know. There's a lot of spaces and advances between The Carter Family,
Buddy Holly and, say, Ornette Coleman, a lot of universes, but he filled them all without
being a member of any school. His playing was moody, awesome, sophisticated, hypnotic and
subtle. There's no way to convey the loss. It just digs down really deep. " |
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| August 11 |
Dylan attends the Jerry Garcia funeral service at the St. Stephan church
in Belvedere, California. |
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| August 11 |
Tony Glover again records Dylan at a private party in Minneapolis. |
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| August 12 |
Release of SHOT OF LOVE. |
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| August 12 |
The third recording session for THE TIMES THEY ARE A-CHANGIN' |
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| August 14 |
Dylan plays Woodstock '94 as part of the US Summer Tour. The first
electric set is only four songs, making this the only 1994 show without Tangled Up In
Blue. The whole show is broadcast on radio and TV all over the world. Highway 61 Revisited
ends up on the official audio release. |
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| August 16 |
Release of the CD box ALLEN GINSBERG: HOLY SOUL, JELLY ROLL - POEMS AND
SONGS (1949-1993). The set includes three tracks from the Record Plant session in New York
City, November 20, 1971: Vomit Express, September On Jessore Road and A Dream. The latter
is not previously in circulation. Dylan plays guitar and sings backup vocal. Also included
is Airplane Blues from Dylan's own studio in Santa Monica, Rundown Studios, February 23,
1982. The released take is the so called "slow version". Dylan plays bass. |
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| August 17 |
Dylan is guest performer at Joan Baez' concert at the Forest Hills
Stadium. |
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| August 18 |
SLOW TRAIN COMING is released. |
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| August 19 |
Release of " The Songs Of Jimmie Rodgers - A Tribute"
containing My Blue Eyed Jane recorded in Memphis in May 1994. The record is the first
release on the new Dylan label Egyptian Records. The liner notes contains a superb essay,
one of his very best prose pieces ever. |
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| August 23 |
Release of 30TH ANNIVERSARY CONCERT CELEBRATION on
CD/cassette/video/laser disc. The video formats contain snippets from rehearsals including
"My Back Pages" and "It Takes A Lot To Laugh" with Eric Clapton, a
song planned to appear before "My Back Pages" but eventually dropped due to time
shortage. "Song To Woody" is omitted from all releases officially due to
technical problems with the miking of Dylan's guitar. Most surprising of all Dylan's vocal
on "My Back Pages" is overdubbed! This apparently took place shortly after the
event in New York. |
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| August 27 |
Stevie Ray Vaughan is killed in a helicopter crash near East Troy,
Wisconsin, after having appeared as a guest at an Eric Clapton concert in Alpine
Valley. |
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| August 28 |
Dylan performs at the Washington Civil Rights March. |
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| August 28 |
First meeting between Dylan and the Beatles takes place at the Delmonico
Hotel in New York. |
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| August 28 |
The fall tour starts with a concert at the Forest Hills Tennis Stadium.
Dylan plays the first set solo and is backed by a band consisting of Robbie Robertson,
Levon Helm, Harvey Brooks and Al Kooper in the second set. This format, one acoustic and
and one electric set is kept through out the fall and during the 1966 World tour. |
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| August 30 |
Release of HIGHWAY 61 REVISITED. |
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| August 31 |
Isle of Wight concert |
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| August 31 |
Release of JOAN BAEZ: RARE, LIVE & CLASSIC, a three CD retrospective
containing three unreleased duets with Dylan: "Troubled And I Don't Know Why"
from Forest Hills, August 17, 1963, "Mama, You Been On My Mind" from the
Halloween Concert at the Philharmonic Hall in New York City, 1964 and "Blowin' In The
Wind" from Fort Collins, May 23, 1976. |
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September
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| September 1 |
'Heart Of Mine/Let It Be Me' single is released (in Europe only) |
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| September 2 |
At the concert that opened the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame Museum in
Cleveland, Dylan and the band plays a five song set. Bruce Springsteen is the main
attraction during this whole shebang and duets with most artists as well as playing his
own set with the E-Street band. Dylan and Springsteen sings Forever Young as the last song
in Dylan's set, which also includes a powerful Seeing The Real You At Last. |
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| September 6 |
Dylan's set on Gerde's Folk City is recorded. |
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| September 7 |
Release of single 'Positively 4th Street/From A Buick 6'. This single
reached #7 and was listed for 7 weeks. In UK it spent three months at Top 50, reaching $8. |
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| September 10 |
The release of HARD RAIN. |
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| September 11 |
'Heart Of Mine/The Groom's Still Waiting At The altar' single is
released (in Europe only) |
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| September 11 |
Release of UNDER THE RED SKY. |
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| September 15 |
Harvey Brooks and Al Kooper decides not to continue touring and are
"replaced" by Garth Hudson, Rick Danko and Richard Manuel, thus re-uniting the
Hawks. |
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| September 16 |
6 pm to midnight. 1st 'BLOOD ON THE TRACKS' session (1974) |
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| September 17 |
7 pm to 1 am. Second 'BLOOD ON THE TRACKS' session. (1974) |
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| September 18 |
4-8 pm. Third 'BLOOD ON THE TRACKS' session. Dylan ends recording
sessions early to attend a Little Feat concert. |
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| September 19 |
7 pm to 3 am. 4th 'BLOOD ON THE TRACKS' session (1974) |
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| September 19 |
OH MERCY is released. |
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| September 22 |
Farm Aid concert with Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers at Memorial
Stadium in Champaign, Ill. |
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| September 22 |
First appearance at Carnegie Hall. Dylan is part of an all star
hootenanny. His set features the live debut (?) of Ballad Of Hollis Brown. |
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| September 26 |
New York Times reporter Robert Shelton attends the opening night of
another two-week Dylan residency at Gerde's Folk City. Dylan is supporting The Greenbriar
Boys and plays two sets each night. After his first set Shelton interviews Dylan and then
writes an enthusiastic review concentrating on Dylan. |
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| September 27 |
Dylan performs at the World Eucharistic Congress in Bologna Arranged by
the Vatican and with the Pope John Paul present. The event is broadcast by the Italian
state television channel RAI. Dylan with band performs three songs Knockin' On Heaven's
Door, A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall and Forever Young. After the second song Dylan went up to
the Pope, they shook hands and talked for about a minute. The Pope then gave a speech. In
an earlier speech the Pope quoted Blowin' In The Wind, which he also had requested that
Dylan would sing. |
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| September 28 |
Dylan is nominated for Nobel Literature Prize by professor Gordon Ball
of the Virginia Military Institute. This means that Dylan will be under consideration for
the 1997 Nobel Prize. |
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| September 30 |
Release of TIME OUT OF MIND. |
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| September 30 |
Second studio experience. Dylan this time joins a Carolyn Hester
session. He plays harmonica on three songs later released on Hester's debut album.
Producer is John Hammond. |
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| Oct 17 |
First recording session for JOHN WESLEY HARDING |
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| October 13 |
West Point, New York. The fact that Dylan gives a concert at this military
university and also plays 'Masters Of War' creates headlines on papers all over the world,
even in remote places like Carlisle and Stockholm. |
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| October 16 |
"Columbia Records Celebrates The Music Of Bob Dylan" This three
and a half hour tribute show was broadcasted live by various TV and radio stations in US
and Europe. A number of artist paid their tribute by playing one or two Dylan songs backed
by Booker T and the MGs with G.E. Smith on extra guitar as "musical director".
Two notable exceptions: John Hammond Jr had rehearsed I'll Be You Baby Tonight, but right
before the show the evening's host, Kris Kristofferson insisted on doing it, so John
Hammond Jr, not knowing any other Bob Dylan songs, sung See That My Grave Is Kept Clean by
Jesse Fuller. Sinead O'Connor got booed for her recent appearance at Saturday Night Live,
where she for some reason had tore up a picture of the Pope. Instead of just get on with
her act she choose to challenge the audience, ended up screaming an a-capella version of
Bob Marley's War and left the stage in tears. Elvis Costello was to have done Positively
4th Street and Van Morrison Just Like A Woman but neither turned up. |
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| October 17 |
The Fall tour starts in San Luis Obispo, California with David Kemper,
formerly of Jerry Garcia Band, replacing Winston Watson. |
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| October 19,21 |
Dylan's wheelchair-bound friend Larry Kegan sings the Chuck Berry's 'No
Money Down' as the last encore while Dylan plays tenorsaxophone (!). |
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| October 20 |
Dylan & Gospel band appears at Saturday Night Live with three songs
from SLOW TRAIN COMING. |
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| October 21 |
Release of NEW MORNING |
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| October 22 |
John Bauldie, editor of The Telegraph, dies in helicopter crash, returning
from a soccer game in Bolton, UK. |
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| October 23, 24 |
The third and fourth recording sessions for THE TIMES THEY ARE
A-CHANGIN' |
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| October 24 |
Rerecording of Hurricane in New York with slightly but accurate lyrics.
The first recorded versions had mistakenly placed Arthur Dexter Bradley in the bar. |
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| October 26 |
Carnegie Hall, New York. Audience includes Dylan's parents. This show
is also recorded by CBS for a possible live album. |
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| October 26 |
Dylan signs for Columbia Records. |
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| October 26 |
Recording for FREEWHEELIN' continues at Columbia Studios in New York.
For the first time Dylan records with a band. |
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| October 26 |
Release of World Gone Wrong. |
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| October 28 |
Release of BIOGRAPH. |
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| October 28 |
Release of 'Union Sundown/Angel Flying Too Close To The Ground' single
(in Europe only). |
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| October 29 |
Dylan appears on Oscar Brand's radio show "Folksong Festival" |
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| October 30 |
1975: Premiere of the first Rolling Thunder Revue |
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| October 30 |
Release of GOOD AS I BEEN TO YOU. Release of TRAVELING WILBURYS
VOL III. |
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| October 31 |
Last recording session for THE TIMES THEY ARE A-CHANGIN' |
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| October 31 |
The "Halloween" concert in New York Philharmonic Hall. CBS is
again taping for a possible live album. The concert programme contains Dylan's poem
"Advice To Geraldine On Her Miscellaneous Birthday", included in Lyrics
1962-1985. |
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| Nov 29 |
Third and last recording session. |
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| Nov 6 |
Second session. |
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| November 1 |
Release of INFIDELS The photo of Dylan on the hills above Jerusalem
is taken by Sara during their visit there in September. |
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| November 4 |
George Jackson recording session in New York. |
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| November 4 |
Izzy Young books Dylan at the Carnegie Recital Hall. Only 53 people
attend. |
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| November 8 |
Release of Woodstock 94, containing "Highway 61" from Dylan's
set. |
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| November 9 |
Dylan allows The Times They Are A-Changin' to be used in an advertisement
for the Bank of Montreal. |
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| November 11 |
Tarantula finally published by MacMillan. |
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| November 12 |
Release of the George Jackson single. |
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| November 14 |
Further FREEWHEELIN' recordings. |
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| November 15 |
Release of Greatest Hits Volume 3. Dignity from the Oh Mercy session is
included. Brendan O'Brien, who produced Pearl Jam's second album has produced an
instrumental backing. Only Dylan's vocal and piano is left from the original recording. |
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| November 16 |
Release of DYLAN |
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| November 16-17 |
Four acoustic shows are played at The Supper Club on West 47th Street
in New York City. 150 tickets to each show are given away at Tower Records in Greenwich on
Monday 15. |
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| November 17 |
At the show in the San Diego Sports Arena someone throws up a little
silver cross onto the stage. Dylan picks it up and puts in his pockets. |
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| November 17 |
Release of BOB DYLAN'S GREATEST HITS VOL 2 |
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| November 17-18 |
Taping of MTV Unplugged at Sony Studios in New York City. The band is
enhanced with keyboards played to great effect by Brendan O'Brien. For set-lists please
refer to section 4. |
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| November 19 |
Dylan with band appear at Late Night With David Letterman and perform
"Forever Young". |
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| November 19 |
The Frank Sinatra 80th Birthday Tribute is recorded at the Shrine
Auditorium in Los Angeles, California. Dylan intends to play That's Life but instead, at
Sinatra's request, performs a beautiful version of Restless Farewell backed by the touring
band and a string quartet. A live version of this song is known only from the 1964
Canadian TV-program Quest. At the post-show party at Sinatra's home only four musical
guests are invited. Eydie Gorme, Steve Lawrence, Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen. |
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| November 2 |
Ruth Tyrangiel files a palimony suit against Dylan. She claims to have
lived with him between 1974 (!!) and 1993. She also says that she helped Dylan to write
some of his songs and that he promised to marry her. Ruth Tyrangiel played "The
Girlfriend" in Renaldo & Clara and appears in three scenes. All this is of course
very strange, Why has nobody heard of her during all these years? And 1974? Then why
wasn't she mentioned in the 1977 divorce? Note though the thanks to "Ruthie" on
the Knocked Out Loaded cover (only on the original LP version). |
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| November 20, 22 |
Recording of BOB DYLAN. |
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| November 20-23 |
Recording session in London in "The Eurythmics Church" with Dave
Stewart produces one track later released on KNOCKED OUT LOADED. |
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| November 21 |
Last Shot Of Love show in Lakeland, Florida. One of the longest Dylan
shows ever, 28 songs including six encores. This show features the first live rendition of
Every Grain Of Sand, making it the seventh song from the album to be performed during the
tour. |
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| November 22 |
In the midst of the extensive fall tour Bob Dylan and Sara Lowndes gets
married at a private ceremony in New York. The wedding is kept secret for a long time. |
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| November 22 |
Release of BOB DYLAN AT BUDOKAN in Japan. |
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| November 23 |
Dylan arrives with Sara in Durango to start work on 'Pat Garrett And
Billy The Kid'. |
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| November 23 |
Thanksgiving Day is spent with Suze Rotolo at the home of Eve and Mac
McKenzie. After the dinner Dylan plays a number of songs that are recorded by the
hosts. |
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| November 24 |
At the show in the Fort Worth Tarrant County Convention Center Arena Dylan
is seen wearing a large metal cross around his neck. |
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| November 25 |
Dylan performs with The Band at their farewell concert at the Winterland
in San Francisco. |
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| November 30 |
Release of 'Rita May/Stuck Inside Of Mobile' |
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| November 30 |
Release of single 'Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window/ Highway 61
Revisited'. |
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| December 1 |
Dylan starts a "club tour" at Roxy in Atlanta, Georgia. Former
President Jimmy Carter and his wife are part of the audience. |
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| December 3 |
Release of REAL LIVE. |
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| December 6 |
Dylan participates in a reception dinner at the White House in Washington,
DC for the Kennedy Center Honors. |
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| December 6 |
In an attempt to finish the new album another recording session takes
place. |
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| December 7 |
Dylan is given the Kennedy Center Honors Lifetime Achievement Award at
a ceremony in The White House by president Bill Clinton. Among the other artists to get
the award this year is Lauren Bacall. Later the same day there is a three hour concert at
the John F. Kennedy Center Opera House. Dylan does not perform. |
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| December 7-17 |
Contrary to his habit of ending the touring after Thanksgiving, Dylan
plays 10 shows in December with Patti Smith as opening act. The tour is billed as
"Paradise Lost Tour". Although the tour with Patti Smith was set up after a
request from Dylan, it takes three shows before they meet, but during the last 7 shows the
acoustic set is augmented by a duet with Patti Smith on Dark Eyes. |
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| December 10 |
The soundtrack to the motion picture "Jerry Maguire" is
released. It contains an alternate, never before heard version of Shelter From The Storm
from the Blood On The Tracks sessions. |
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| December 11 |
Music critic, journalist and biographer Robert Shelton dies after a
severe stroke a week earlier in his home in Brighton, England. Robert Shelton wrote the
influential New York Times review of Dylan's performance (opening act for The Greenbriar
Boys) at Gerde's Folk City in Greenwich Village on September 29, 1961. In 1986 he
published his biography No Direction Home: The Life and Music of Bob Dylan. |
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| December 13 |
Dylan receives the Tom Paine award at a Bill of Rights dinner held by the
Emergency Civil Liberties Committee at the Grand ballroom of the hotel Americana in New
York. In a very uptight acceptance speech Dylan questions the validity of what his wealthy
and liberal audience believe they are fighting. He even says that he can understand
Kennedy's murderer. A few days later he sends a poem called "A Message from Bob
Dylan" to the Committee in which he is offering to make up for any losses in
donations that may be the result of this unfortunate speech. |
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| December 14 |
Release of first single: 'Mixed Up Confusion/Corrina Corrina' It is
quickly withdrawn by CBS. |
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| December 20 |
Release of "The Concert For Bangla Desh" on Apple. |
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| December 22 |
Dylan performs at The Singers Club in London, and the next day at the King
and Queen Pub in West End. |
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| December 22 |
On his way home to Hibbing for Christmas celebrations, he gives a
private performance, this time in Minneapolis at the house of Bonnie Bleecher. It is
recorded by Tony Glover. The tape is often referred to as the Minneapolis Hotel Tape and
is the basis for the first bootleg "Great White Wonder" and later "A Rare
Batch Of Little White Wonder". |
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| December 27 |
Release of JOHN WESLEY HARDING. |
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| December 27, 30 |
5th & 6th 'BLOOD ON THE TRACKS' sessions |
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