The feast ranks have been arranged according to the medieval
calendar:
January
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Liturgy
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January 5
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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".
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"Girl From The North Country" and "Boots Of Spanish
Leather".
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January 5
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World Gone Wrong is nominated for a Grammy in the
Traditional Folk Album category.
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WGW
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January 6,9
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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.
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Idiot Wind…
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January 12
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Release of 'A Tribute to Woody Guthrie, Part One'
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January 12
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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
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Release of THE TIMES THEY ARE A-CHANGIN'
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Times
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January 14-15
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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
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Recording of BRINGING IT ALL BACK HOME.
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BIABH
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January 16
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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).
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January 16
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Release of DESIRE
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DESIRE
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January 17
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Release of PLANET WAVES
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PW
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January 17
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Release of BLOOD ON THE TRACKS
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BOTT
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January 20
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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
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First PAT GARRETT & BILLY THE KID session in Mexico
City
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Billy
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January 20
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Woody Guthrie Memorial Concert in Carnegie Hall, NYC.
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January 21
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A new song based on the old English tune "Nottamun Town"
is performed at Gerde's Folk City. It is called "Masters
Of War"
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Masters of war
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January 24
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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.
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Hard times in NY town
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January 25
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Dylan visits Guthrie's family in Howard's Beach. Meets
young Arlo and teaches him some harmonica.
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January 25
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First BLONDE ON BLONDE session with The Hawks in New
York.
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Leopard skin, Sooner or later
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January 25
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Renaldo & Clara opens in New York and Los Angeles and
gets generally bad reviews.
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Isis
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January 28
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Dylan participates in the We Are The World recording
session in Hollywood.
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We are the world
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January 29
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Dylan performs at Izzy Young's Folklore Centre. Meets
Woody Guthrie at the home of Sid and Bob Gleason in East
Orange, New Jersey.
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January 30
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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
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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.
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February
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February 3-22
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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
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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
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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.
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February 8
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Recording of the so called "Banjo Tape" in the basement
of Gerde's Folk City.
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February 11
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First SAVED session (1980)
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Covenant woman
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February 12
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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)
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Solid Rock, What can I do for you?, Saved, A satisfied
mind,
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February 13
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Dylan starts performing regularly at Gerde's Folk City on
the Monday night hootenanny.
Third SAVED session (1980)
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Saving Grace, Pressing on, In the garden
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February 13
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Session for NASHVILLE SKYLINE
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To be alone with you, I threw it all away, One more
night, (Lay lady lay)
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February 14
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NASHVILLE SKYLINE session in Nashville
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Peggy day, Tell me that it isn't true, Country Pie, Lay
lady lay,
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February 14
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In February The Gleasons are given a dated handwritten
copy of a new Dylan composition called "Song To
Woody".
Fourth SAVED session (1980)
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Are you ready?, In the garden
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February 14
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Recording for BLONDE ON BLONDE is resumed in Nashville
with local studio musicians.
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Fourth time around, VoJ, Leopard skin
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February 15
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BLONDE ON BLONDE session (until 4:30 am)
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I'll keep it with mine, Sad eyed lady
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February 16
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Dylan appears at a Rick Danko/Levon Helm concert at the
Lone Star Cafe in New York.
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February 16
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BLONDE ON BLONDE session (until 7 am)
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Stuck inside of mobile
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February 17
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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
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The Johnny Cash sessions in Nashville
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February 20
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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
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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
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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
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The triple album MASTERPIECES is released in Japan.
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March
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March 1
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Bob Dylan makes another surprise appearance at a Tom
Petty concert at The Forum in Los Angeles.
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March 1
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Sara Dylan files for divorce.
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Sara, BOTT; Idiot wind
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March 1
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World Gone Wrong gets a Grammy as best Traditional Folk
Album!
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WGW
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March 4
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Richard Manuel hangs himself in a motel room in Florida.
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I shall be Released
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March 8
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BLONDE ON BLONDE sessions in Nashville.
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Absolutely sweet marie, Just like a woman, Pedging my
time
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March 9
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BLONDE ON BLONDE sessions in Nashville
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Most likely you…,Temporary like achilles, RDW, 5
believers, Leopard skin, I want you
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March 12
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The first self titled album is released.
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March 2
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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
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Dylan appears with a new band called the Plugz at the TV
show Late Night With David Letterman.
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March 22
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Release of BRINGING IT ALL BACK HOME.
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March 23
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Release of the movie 'The Concert For Bangla Desh'.
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March 26
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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
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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
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Release of BOB DYLAN'S GREATEST HITS
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Anything you like…
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March 31
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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
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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
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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.
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Desolation Row
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April 7
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All Along The Watchtower is performed in concert for the
1000th time at the show in Fredericton.
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AATW
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April 7
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Caribbean Wind is recorded at Muscle Shoals.
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April 7
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Release of 'The Last Waltz'.
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April 9
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Release of NASHVILLE SKYLINE
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April 11
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MTV Unplugged is released in Europe.
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April 11
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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
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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
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The INFIDELS recording sessions in New York.
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April 12
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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
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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.
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April 16 or 23
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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.
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Blowin'
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April 18
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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
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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
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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
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Recording for next album starts.
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April 26
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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
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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
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"The George Harrison" session in New York
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May 5
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"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
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MTV Unplugged is released in USA.
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May 5
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Release of MTV Unplugged commercial video.
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May 5
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I married Isis
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Isis
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May 6
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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
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Premiere of 'Don't Look Back' at the Presido Theatre in
San Fransisco.
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May 8
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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
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Last show in Royal Albert Hall in London.
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May 11-19
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The SLOW TRAIN COMING sessions in Muscle Shoals,
Sheffield
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May 12
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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
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Release of BLONDE ON BLONDE.
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May 17
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The show in Manchester Free Trade Hall (1966)
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May 18
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Monterey Folk Festival. Duet with Joan Baez on "With God
On Our Side"
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May 20-22
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Nativity
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May 25
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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
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The Wallflowers' second album Bringing Down The Horse is
released.
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May 27
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Release of THE FREEWHEELIN' BOB DYLAN
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May 27
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Royal Albert Hall, London. This turns out to be the last
show of the 1966 World Tour.
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May 28
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Release of For Our Children charity album.
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May 28
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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
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Guest appearance at a Levon Helm concert at Lone Star
Cafe
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May 31
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Release of DOWN IN THE GROOVE
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June
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June 2
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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
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THE BEST OF DYLAN is released.
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June 5
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Death of Abraham Zimmerman, Dylan's father
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June 8
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Release of EMPIRE BURLESQUE.
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June 8
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Release of SELF PORTRAIT
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June 8
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Suze Rotolo sails to Italy.
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June 9
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Dylan accepts an honorary doctorate in music at Princeton
University.
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June 9
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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
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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
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Release of Nobody's Child single.
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June 12
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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
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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
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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
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Dylan is interviewed by Jon Brem for the 'Minneapolis
Star and Tribune'.
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June 15
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Dylan plays the first of five concerts as opening act "a
very special guest", for the Grateful Dead.
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June 15
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Dylan starts a lengthy European Summer Tour in Aarhus,
Denmark at The Aarhus Festival.
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June 15
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Release of STREET-LEGAL and first show in Europe since
1966 at Earl's Court in London.
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June 15-16
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Recording of SUBTERRANEAN HOMESICK BLUES starts in New
York.
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June 16
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Another interview by Nat Hentoff for The New
Yorker.
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June 17
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Bob Dylan answers telephone calls from listeners in the
radio program Rock-Line.
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June 17
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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
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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
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Release of BEFORE THE FLOOD
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June 20
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Release of SAVED.
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June 20
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Release of the HARD TO HANDLE video.
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June 22
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First major review of the Basement Tapes entitled "The
missing Bob Dylan Album" published in Rolling
Stone.
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June 25
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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
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Release of THE BASEMENT TAPES
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June 29
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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
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Finjan Club in Montreal. Dylan's set is recorded.
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July 9
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Second FREEWHEELIN' session in New York.
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July 13
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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
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Release of PAT GARRETT & BILLY THE KID
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July 15
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The European tour is concluded before some 200 000 people
at the Blackbushe Aerodrome in Camberley, UK.
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July 16
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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First DESIRE session in New York.
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July 29
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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
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Second DESIRE session in New York.
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July 31
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Third DESIRE session in New York.
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July 31
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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
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The Concerts For Bangla Desh at the Madison Square Garden
in NYC.
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August 2
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Robert Allen Zimmerman legally changes his name to Bob
Dylan.
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August 3, 4
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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
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First and second recording sessions for THE TIMES THEY
ARE A-CHANGIN'
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August 8
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KNOCKED OUT LOADED is released. The "release an album, do
a tour to promote it" routine in reverse.
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August 8
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Release of ANOTHER SIDE OF BOB DYLAN
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August 9
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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
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Dylan is guest performer at Joan Baez' concert in Asbury
Park, New Jersey.
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August 10
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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
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Dylan attends the Jerry Garcia funeral service at the St.
Stephan church in Belvedere, California.
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August 11
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Tony Glover again records Dylan at a private party in
Minneapolis.
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August 12
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Release of SHOT OF LOVE.
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August 12
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The third recording session for THE TIMES THEY ARE
A-CHANGIN'
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August 14
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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
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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
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Dylan is guest performer at Joan Baez' concert at the
Forest Hills Stadium.
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August 18
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SLOW TRAIN COMING is released.
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August 19
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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
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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
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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
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Dylan performs at the Washington Civil Rights
March.
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August 28
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First meeting between Dylan and the Beatles takes place
at the Delmonico Hotel in New York.
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August 28
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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
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Release of HIGHWAY 61 REVISITED.
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August 31
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Isle of Wight concert
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August 31
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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
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'Heart Of Mine/Let It Be Me' single is released (in
Europe only)
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September 2
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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
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Dylan's set on Gerde's Folk City is recorded.
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September 7
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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
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The release of HARD RAIN.
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September 11
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'Heart Of Mine/The Groom's Still Waiting At The altar'
single is released (in Europe only)
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September 11
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Release of UNDER THE RED SKY.
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September 15
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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
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6 pm to midnight. 1st 'BLOOD ON THE TRACKS' session
(1974)
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September 17
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7 pm to 1 am. Second 'BLOOD ON THE TRACKS' session.
(1974)
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September 18
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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
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7 pm to 3 am. 4th 'BLOOD ON THE TRACKS' session
(1974)
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September 19
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OH MERCY is released.
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September 22
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Farm Aid concert with Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
at Memorial Stadium in Champaign, Ill.
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September 22
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Release of TIME OUT OF MIND.
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September 30
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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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October
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Oct 17
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First recording session for JOHN WESLEY HARDING
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October 13
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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
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"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
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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
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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
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Dylan & Gospel band appears at Saturday Night Live
with three songs from SLOW TRAIN COMING.
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October 21
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Release of NEW MORNING
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October 22
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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
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The third and fourth recording sessions for THE TIMES
THEY ARE A-CHANGIN'
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October 24
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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
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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
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Dylan signs for Columbia Records.
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October 26
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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
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Release of World Gone Wrong.
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October 28
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Release of BIOGRAPH.
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October 28
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Release of 'Union Sundown/Angel Flying Too Close To The
Ground' single (in Europe only).
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October 29
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Dylan appears on Oscar Brand's radio show "Folksong
Festival"
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October 30
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1975: Premiere of the first Rolling Thunder Revue
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October 30
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Release of GOOD AS I BEEN TO YOU. Release of
TRAVELING WILBURYS VOL III.
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October 31
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Last recording session for THE TIMES THEY ARE A-CHANGIN'
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October 31
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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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November
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Nov 29
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Third and last recording session.
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Nov 6
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Second session.
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November 1
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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
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George Jackson recording session in New York.
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November 4
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Izzy Young books Dylan at the Carnegie Recital Hall. Only
53 people attend.
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November 8
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Release of Woodstock 94, containing "Highway 61" from
Dylan's set.
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November 9
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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
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Tarantula finally published by MacMillan.
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November 12
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Release of the George Jackson single.
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November 14
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Further FREEWHEELIN' recordings.
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November 15
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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
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Release of DYLAN
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November 16-17
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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
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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
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Release of BOB DYLAN'S GREATEST HITS VOL 2
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November 17-18
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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
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Dylan with band appear at Late Night With David Letterman
and perform "Forever Young".
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November 19
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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
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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
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Recording of BOB DYLAN.
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November 20-23
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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
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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
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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
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Release of BOB DYLAN AT BUDOKAN in Japan.
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November 23
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Dylan arrives with Sara in Durango to start work on 'Pat
Garrett And Billy The Kid'.
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November 23
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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
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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
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Dylan performs with The Band at their farewell concert at
the Winterland in San Francisco.
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November 30
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Release of 'Rita May/Stuck Inside Of Mobile'
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November 30
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Release of single 'Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window/
Highway 61 Revisited'.
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December
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December 1
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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
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Release of REAL LIVE.
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December 6
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Dylan participates in a reception dinner at the White
House in Washington, DC for the Kennedy Center
Honors.
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December 6
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In an attempt to finish the new album another recording
session takes place.
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December 7
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Release of first single: 'Mixed Up Confusion/Corrina
Corrina' It is quickly withdrawn by CBS.
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December 20
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Release of "The Concert For Bangla Desh" on Apple.
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December 22
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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
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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
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Release of JOHN WESLEY HARDING.
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December 27, 30
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5th & 6th 'BLOOD ON THE TRACKS' sessions
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