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Rolling Stone Menu 20 Overlooked Bob Dylan Classics Lesser-known tracks that deserve places in the pantheon By “You’re No Good” ( “Going, Going, Gone” (   One of his last great studio performances with the Band — and also one of his catchiest songs about death. “Black Diamond Bay” ( Desire, 1976) A tale of forbidden love, violence, treachery — plus a final-verse twist where it turns out Dylan’s at home watching the news on TV, drinking a beer. Ah, the Seventies....

May 24, 2021 Nate Todd Today is Bob Dylan’s 80th birthday. The iconic singer-songwriter was born on May 24, 1941 in Duluth, Minnesota. Widely considered the greatest songwriter of the popular music era, he certainly was the mold for the modern singer-songwriter, that of a young intrepid troubadour out to change the world, which Bob did. Although Dylan defined a generation who openly questioned the rules and mores of the one that proceeded it, even revolutionaries must grow up. In 1966, after ...

Dylan turns 80 years old today. I’m not so much shocked at his age—in some ways, he has always seemed old; this is a guy who sang “Fixin’ to Die” on his first album, recorded when he was just 20—but at my own, and at the fact that he has been there all this time, and that I keep going back to try to figure out just a little bit more about the puzzle he has created for six decades. Bob Dylan transformed the very possibilities of pop music. He introduced a sense of literary ambition t...

Bob Dylan in London: Troubadour Tales charts the singer’s connections with the city, from his first visit in 1962, through to a public visit to Camden in 1993.