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20 unusual facts about Bob Dylan


Bob Dylan: The Collection

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

David Fennario

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

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.

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.

Jones Street

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

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!

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.

Mbanx

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

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.

Reverse chronology

The lyrics to "All Along the Watchtower", written by Bob Dylan, are, he says, "in a rather reverse order"; indeed, the final verse begins with the words "All along the watchtower", and if reversed, the verses would tell the story in the correct order.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Vancouver Adapted Music Society

Produced by Shore 104 FM, it features VAMS members Jim Byrnes, sylvi macCormac and Rolf Kempf, joined by Ndidi Onukwulu, The Sojourners, Geoff Hicks, Wide Mouth Mason’s Shaun Verreault, Adaline, Daniel Wesley, Shane Turner and Jets Overhead in a cover of Bob Dylan’s I Shall Be Released.

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".

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.

Barry Feinstein

He accompanied Bob Dylan on his 1966 tour of England and shot the cover photos of numerous albums, including from Janis Joplin, George Harrison, and the Rolling Stones.

Ben Fong-Torres

He conducted interviews for Rolling Stone of entertainment figures including Bob Dylan, the Rolling Stones, comedian Steve Martin and Linda Ronstadt's first cover story in 1975.

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.

Cafe Wha?

Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, Bruce Springsteen, The Velvet Underground, Cat Mother & the All Night Newsboys, Kool and the Gang, Peter, Paul & Mary, Woody Allen, Lenny Bruce, Joan Rivers, Bill Cosby, Richard Pryor, and many others all began their careers at the Wha?

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.

Chris Gollon

Partially inspired by a lyric in Bob Dylan's ballad 'Desolation Row', Chris Gollon painted 'Einstein & The Jealous Monk'.

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.

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 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 Hoffman

Other feature films include: Earl Scruggs: His Family and Friends, starring Scruggs with Bob Dylan, Doc Watson, and The Byrds; Sing Sing Thanksgiving, a concert feature film at Sing Sing Prison in New York with B.B. King, Joan Baez and others; and It’s All Good, a film chronicling the lives of two aggressive inline skating teams in New York City and Los Angeles.

Dennis Locorriere

He is also a notable songwriter, his songs having been recorded by Bob Dylan, Crystal Gayle, BJ Thomas, Helen Reddy, Willie Nelson, Southside Johnny and by Jerry Lee Lewis, on his 2006 critically acclaimed and historic release, Last Man Standing.

Eduardo e Mônica

It was largely inspired by Bob Dylan, telling the story of youngsters in Brasília which fall in love, despite having nothing in common.

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.

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.

Golden Eggs

The bootleg was something of a first, as up until that point, rock bootlegs had been the domain of only the most successful acts, such as The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Who, Led Zeppelin and 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").

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.

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.

Love Psychedelico

Stylistically, Love Psychedelico is highly reminiscent of the British Invasion of the late 60s, both members having cited The Beatles and Led Zeppelin as influences, though the influence of American folk and blues are also present (Kumi having claimed Janis Joplin and Sheryl Crow, and Sato Bob Dylan, as influences).

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.

Majella Murphy

Her style is eclectic and includes many influences including Bob Dylan, Irish Trad, Jimmy MacCarthy and Christy Moore.

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.

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.

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".

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.

Sal Valentino

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

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 Futuristic Sounds of Sun Ra

The album was produced by Tom Wilson, who would later become famous for producing albums by the Velvet Underground, Frank Zappa and Bob Dylan.

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.

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.

Wootton Bridge

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

Yehuda Talit

During the 1980s the company produced large concerts and brought international artists to Israel such as Bob Dylan, Tracy Chapman, Dire Straits, Sting, Leonard Cohen, Billy Joel, Boy George, Bryan Adams, Joe Cocker, Julio Iglesias, Duran Duran, David Bowie, The Eurythmics and many others.

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.