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SHARE Bob Dylan’s debut album, a self-titled interpretation of folk classics with two original compositions, was such a big flop when it released in 1962 that record executives considered dropping his contract. But Dylan, then an aspiring 20-year-old singer-songwriter, had the good graces of influential record producer John Hammond, who had signed the budding star to Columbia Records and stood by him. “His guitar playing, let us say charitably, was rudimentary, and his harmonica was barely passable, but he had a good sound and a point of view and an idea," Hammond would later recall of D...

now but a whole climate of opinion under whom we conduct our different lives.” On a lesser scale, the poet WH Auden’s words about Sigmund Freud could apply to Bob Dylan. On his 80th birthday, his influence on the popular music of the West is so pervasive that it runs unnoticed, like blood in the vein. It was his monumental presence over more than 50 years that prompted the Nobel committee’s bold decision in 2016 to award him the literature prize. “Alfred Nobel wanted to reward those who have conferred the greatest benefit on mankind,” the committee explained. Size of Dylan’s foo...

Illustration: R Fresson/The Guardian Illustration: R Fresson/The Guardian Sun 23 May 2021 09.00 EDT Last modified on Sun 23 May 2021 09.44 EDT When I first properly listened to Bob Dylan, I was 10 years old. Each Saturday, Radio 1 aired a series titled 25 Years of Rock, based on news and music spanning the years 1955 to 1979. And that week, in among archive clips of Lyndon Johnson, Harold Wilson, the Vietnam war and whatever else had happened in 1965, there was the sudden whip-crack of a snare drum followed by six minutes of music unlike anything I had ever heard: a great cascading noise, l...

When I first properly listened to Bob Dylan, I was 10 years old. Each Saturday, Radio 1 aired a series titled 25 Years of Rock, based on news and music spanning the years 1955 to 1979. And that week, in among archive clips of Lyndon Johnson, Harold Wilson, the Vietnam war and whatever else had happened in 1965, there was the sudden whip-crack of a snare drum followed by six minutes of music unlike anything I had ever heard: a great cascading...

2. The Headhunters- God Make Me Funky (RIP Paul Jackson) 3. Jimmy Cliff- World Upside Down (HB) 4. Pink Floyd- Mother (HB Jeff Porcaro) 5. Faces- Debris (HB Ronnie Lane) 6. Ian Dury- My Old Man 7. Desmond Dekker & The Aces- Honor Your Mother And Your Father 8. Margaret Glaspy- Parental Guidance 9. The Kills- Blue Moon 10. Birthgiving Toad- (You Caught Me) Smilin’ 11. Sly & The Family Stone- Runnin’ Away 12. A Tribe Called Quest- Description of a Fool 13. Eric Dolphy Quintet- April Fool HOUR 2 15. Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers- Fooled Again (I Don’t Like It) 16. The Mighty Sparrow- Fool ...