On October 13, , the legendary singer-songwriter also received the Nobel Prize in Literature , the first time the honor was bestowed on a musician. He became the first American to receive the honor since novelist Toni Morrison in , and was lauded by the Swedish Academy "for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition. In , Dylan was one of the artists featured on the six-track EP Universal Love: Wedding Songs Reimagined , a collection of classics from various eras revised with same-sex pronouns.
In August, the Heaven Hill Distillery filed a lawsuit over claims of trademark infringement. Along with songs from Dylan's collaborations with Cash, the three-CD set included tracks from his session with bluegrass great Earl Scruggs and outtakes from the John Wesley Harding and Nashville Skyline recording sessions.
Dylan gave fans a pleasant surprise with the March release of a minute song, "Murder Most Foul," about the assassination of John F. He provided few details about the track in a brief statement, noting only that it was "recorded a while back. In addition to Baez, Dylan was at one point romantically linked to another singer, gospel icon Mavis Staples, and wished to marry her, though the two never took the trip down the aisle.
Dylan and Lowndes, who married in and divorced in , had four children together: Jesse, Anna, Samuel and Jakob, with Jakob going on to become lead singer of the popular rock group the Wallflowers. Dylan also adopted Lowndes's daughter, Maria, from a previous marriage.
When he is not making music, Dylan has explored his talents as a visual artist. His paintings appear on the covers of his albums, Self Portrait and Planet Waves , and he has published several books of his paintings and drawings, as well as exhibited his artwork around the world. We strive for accuracy and fairness. If you see something that doesn't look right, contact us! Subscribe to the Biography newsletter to receive stories about the people who shaped our world and the stories that shaped their lives.
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View this post on Instagram. Its opening track Tangled Up in Blue saw him experiment with timeless painting-style techniques in the muddled narrative of the song. The singer said it took "ten years to live and two years to write".
Dylan returned to the live circuit in , playing arenas with The Band - one of the first major tours of its kind. Dylan even drove a motor home for the circuit of small town venues, which was mythologised in a Scorsese Netflix film. At times during the unique tour, Dylan painted his face white and wore a mask, while former girlfriend Baez dressed up as him. The finale of the first leg constituted a benefit concert for imprisoned boxer Ruben Carter - the subject of Dylan's recent song The Hurricane - and featured a cameo from fighting champion and activist Muhammad Ali.
Baez has stated that the lyrics to her song Diamonds and Rust relate to her relationship with her fellow singer. He started to re-imagine his songs at this time, reworking the tempos and styles so they were almost unrecognisable.
A decade later, after sustaining a debilitating hand injury, Dylan said a jazz singer inspired him to play and sing his songs using a totally different technique. In , Dylan released a cubist-inspired film he had written and directed during The Rolling Thunder Revue tour, called Renaldo and Clara. It was an expensive flop at the box office Film fan Dylan had previously enjoyed his first dramatic big screen role in the western Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid, for which he wrote Knockin' on Heaven's Door.
Another song, Lay Lady Lay, was originally penned for the soundtrack of the movie Midnight Cowboy but was not submitted in time so it ended up on his album Nashville Skyline. Dylan had a period of Christian revelation in the late s, following his divorce, after a fan threw a small silver cross on stage. He got baptised and released several albums containing contemporary gospel songs like Gotta Serve Somebody.
Speaking about his faith in , however, the musician told Newsweek: "I find the religiosity and philosophy in the music, I don't find it anywhere else. I don't adhere to rabbis, preachers, evangelists all of that, I've learned more from the songs than I have from any of this entity.
His song Blind Willie McTell, a tribute to the late bluesman, was released in - oddly eight years after it was recorded. Now regarded as part of the Dylan canon, it emerged belatedly via the official release of The Bootleg Series. Dylan married his backup singer Carolyn Dennis in and they had a daughter together, before divorcing in This second marriage remained a secret until Howard Sounes' book, Down the Highway, was first published in They each had band nicknames and Dylan was known as Lucky.
Lucky Wilbury. He had his own weekly one-hour satellite radio show, Theme Time Radio Hour, from to Dylan's name appears on the wall of Blackpool's Opera House, alongside other acts to have performed there, such as comedians Little and Large and Roy Chubby Brown. He's a hip-hop fan. Some consider his own track Subterranean Homesick Blues to be one of the first popular modern rap songs.
He's also allegedly a master thief. Chronicles: Volume One to give it its full title was a New York times best-seller, however critics claimed its author, Dylan, had cribbed certain passages from Marcel Proust, Mark Twain, Time magazine and even a guide to New Orleans.
The Dylan-inspired film I'm Not There became Heath Ledger's last movie to be released during the actor's lifetime. A ft wide Dylan mural by Brazilian street artist Eduardo Kobra pictured below was unveiled in downtown Minneapolis in Dylan was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in , and the US Medal of Freedom in by then-President Barack Obama; before receiving the Nobel Prize for Literature four years later for having "created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition".
He became the first songwriter to win the prestigious award, but it was collected on his behalf by another - the priestess of punk Patti Smith , who nervously sang A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall. He eventually delivered a Nobel lecture in the form of a spoken word piece with added piano tinkling and references to the plays of William Shakespeare and Homer's hero, Odysseus.
He's played roughly gigs a year for the last 20 years. His first new song in eight years, Murder Most Foul , was released last year and it comprised of a minute rumination on the s and the assassination of JFK. It made Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands, his 11 minute-plus epic from , seem pretty poppy by comparison.
Dylan has been a keen painter and visual artist for decades and his work is currently on display and up for sale at the Halcyon Gallery in London and the Castle Fine Art gallery in Manchester. Last week, it emerged Dylan had agreed to become an honorary patron of the The Bob Willis Fund - a new charity in memory of the late England cricketer. Willis once told the BBC's John Wilson that he had changed his middle name to Dylan as a young man, in honour of his favourite musician.
The Bob Dylan Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma - a museum dedicated to artefacts from his huge archive - will open to the public in May next year.
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