Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan

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Michael Moore can lay claim to many different titles including author, film-maker, activist, and now... rock star? It's true. On 'Occupy This Album', a 4-disc set that includes 99 artists on 99 tracks, Moore delivers a surprisingly decent version of the Bob Dylan classic song 'The Times They Are A Changin'.

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On Thursday (April 26) the White House announced that Bob Dylan was among the 13 people chosen to receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom. The nation's highest honor that can be awarded to a civilian, the Medal of Freedom is awarded to "individuals who have made especially meritorious contributions to the security or national interests of the United States, to world peace, or to cultural or other significant public or private endeavors."

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Released in July of 1965, Bob Dylan's 'Like A Rolling Stone' was, in many ways, the dividing line between the past and the future of rock and roll.

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Levon Helm's death yesterday (April 19) at the age of 71 sent waves of grief through the musical community, prompting eloquent tributes and emotional remembrances from some of the many fans and fellow artists the drummer touched during his career. Levon's friend and former boss, Bob Dylan, has added a few words of his own.

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Allow us to set the scene. It's the spring of 1962, you're at Gerde's Folk City in Greenwich Village listening to a young troubadour named Bob Dylan. He throws out a song he's still working on. It's called 'Blowin' in the Wind.' You and everyone there are hearing it for the first time. It stops you and everyone else in their tracks.  Well, that's exactly what happened fifty years ago today, April 16.

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One of Rolling Stone magazine's Top 20 albums of all time will be made into a feature film. The rights to adapt Bob Dylan's painful but brilliant 'Blood on the Tracks' album into a full-length motion picture were acquired by a Brazilian film production company that plans to make it into an English language movie.

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Fifty years ago today (March 19, 1962), the self-titled debut album from Bob Dylan was released. The world was certainly a very different place in 1962 than it is in 2012.

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Bob Dylan is reportedly working on a new album -- and, in keeping with his habit of forward-thinking innovation, this one will have a markedly different sound.

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Lee Koch, a 27-year-old baker from Temecula, Calif., cooked up a rendition of the Bob Dylan classic 'Like a Rolling Stone' on tonight's episode of NBC's singing competition 'The Voice.'

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Fans of the '60s folk movement are in for an extra treat with the release of 'Legends of Folk: The Village Scene' -- a new DVD packed with vintage performances by the musical icons of that time.

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