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Bob Dylan

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Bob Dylan 1985
Captures the troubled spirit of America in 1975 and the joyous music that Bob Dylan performed during the fall of that year. Martin Scorsese directs this film, which is described as part documentary, part concert film, part fever dream.
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Robert Allen Zimmerman was born 24 May 1941 in Duluth, Minnesota; his father Abe worked for the Standard Oil Co. Six years later the family moved to Hibbing, often the coldest place in the US, where he taught himself piano and guitar and formed several high school rock bands. In 1959 he entered the University of Minnesota and began performing as Bob Dylan at clubs in Minneapolis and St. Paul. The following year he went to New York, performed in Greenwich Village folk clubs, and spent much time in the hospital room of his hero Woody Guthrie. Late in 1961 Columbia signed him to a contract and the following year released his first album, containing two original songs. Next year "The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan" appeared, with all original songs including the 1960s anthem "Blowin' in the Wind." After several more important acoustic/folk albums, and tours with Joan Baez, he launched into a new electric/acoustic format with 1965's "Bringing It All Back Home" which, with The Byrds' cover of his "Mr Tambourine Man," launched folk-rock. The documentary Bob Dylan: Dont Look Back (1967) was filmed at this time; he broke off his relationship with Baez and by the end of the year had married Sara Dylan (born Sara Lowndes). Nearly killed in a motorcycle accident 29 July 1966, he withdrew for a time of introspection. After more hard rock performances, his next albums were mostly country. With his career wandering (and critics condemning the fact), Sam Peckinpah asked him to compose the score for, and appear in, his Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid (1973) - more memorable as a soundtrack than a film. In 1974 he and The Band went on tour, releasing his first #1 album, "Planet Waves". It was followed a year later by another first-place album, "Blood on the Tracks". After several Rolling Thunder tours, the unsuccessful film Renaldo and Clara (1978) and a divorce, he stunned the music world again by his release of the fundamentalist Christrian album "Slow Train Coming," a cut from which won him his first Grammy. Many tours and albums later, on the eve of a European tour May 1997, he was stricken with histoplasmosis (a possibly fatal infection of the heart sac); he recovered and appeared in Bologna that September at the request of the Pope. In December he received the Kennedy Center Award for artistic excellence.
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Bob Dylan in Festival (1967)
Bob Dylan in Festival (1967)
Bob Dylan in Festival (1967)
Bob Dylan in Festival (1967)
Bob Dylan in Woodstock: Three Days That Defined a Generation (2019)
Bob Dylan and Robbie Robertson in Once Were Brothers (2019)
Bob Dylan in Bob Dylan: Dont Look Back (1967)
Bob Dylan in Bob Dylan: Dont Look Back (1967)
Bob Dylan in Bob Dylan: Dont Look Back (1967)
Bob Dylan in Bob Dylan: Dont Look Back (1967)
Bob Dylan in Bob Dylan: Dont Look Back (1967)
Bob Dylan and Brian Pendleton in Bob Dylan: Dont Look Back (1967)

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Renaldo and Clara (1978)
Renaldo and Clara
6.6
  • Renaldo
  • 1978
Jeff Bridges, John Goodman, Bob Dylan, Penélope Cruz, and Luke Wilson in Masked and Anonymous (2003)
Masked and Anonymous
5.3
  • Composer
  • 2003
Michael Douglas in Wonder Boys (2000)
Wonder Boys
7.2
  • Soundtrack("Buckets of Rain", "Not Dark Yet", "Shooting Star", "Things Have Changed")
  • 2000
Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid (1973)
Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid
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  • Composer
  • 1973

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Music Department

  • Hotel Refinement
    • Post-production
  • Soleá Morente in Cariño, sabes que soy de otro planeta (2022)
    Cariño, sabes que soy de otro planeta
  • Aaron Castle in My Big Book of Grievances (2021)
    My Big Book of Grievances
  • Tangled up in Blue - Take 3, Remake 3 (2021)
    Tangled up in Blue - Take 3, Remake 3
  • Don Caron in It Ain't Russia (2018)
    It Ain't Russia
  • Bob Dylan, Ellen Kuras, Jennifer Lebeau, and Damian Rodriguez in Trouble No More (2017)
    Trouble No More
  • Martin Luther King, Joachim Prinz, and A. Philip Randolph in We Have A Dream (2016)
    We Have A Dream
  • Lillemand (2015)
    Lillemand
  • Ax Men (2008)
    Ax Men
  • Itsi Bitsi (2012)
    Itsi Bitsi
  • Hick (2011)
    Hick
  • Det meste af tiden
  • Scarlett Johansson in Bob Dylan: When the Deal Goes Down (2006)
    Bob Dylan: When the Deal Goes Down
  • World Tour 1966: The Home Movies (2003)
    World Tour 1966: The Home Movies
  • Skank: MTV Ao Vivo Ouro Preto (2002)
    Skank: MTV Ao Vivo Ouro Preto
  • Dare to Dream (1990)
    Dare to Dream

Composer

  • Eric Cantona, Bernard Lavilliers, Gaëtan Roussel, Hervé Le Sourd, and Izïa Higelin in Bernard Lavilliers - Qui a tué Davy Moore? ft. Eric Cantona, Hervé, Izïa, Gaëtan Roussel (2022)
    Bernard Lavilliers - Qui a tué Davy Moore? ft. Eric Cantona, Hervé, Izïa, Gaëtan Roussel
  • Bob Dylan: License to Kill (2021)
    Bob Dylan: License to Kill
  • Bob Dylan: Don't Fall Apart on Me Tonight (Version 2) (2021)
    Bob Dylan: Don't Fall Apart on Me Tonight (Version 2)
  • Andreas Dermitzakis: Angelos exangelos (2020)
    Andreas Dermitzakis: Angelos exangelos
  • Bertrand Belin - Le feu au coeur (Ain't Talkin')
  • Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash: Wanted Man (Take 1) (2019)
    Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash: Wanted Man (Take 1)
  • Hugo Moura in Balada na Calada (2019)
    Balada na Calada
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  • Bob Dylan: One More Cup of Coffee (Valley Below) (S.I.R. Studio Rehearsals, Oct. 21, 1975) (2019)
    Bob Dylan: One More Cup of Coffee (Valley Below) (S.I.R. Studio Rehearsals, Oct. 21, 1975)
  • Don Caron in It Ain't Russia (2018)
    It Ain't Russia
  • Don Caron in The Demise of the DNC (2017)
    The Demise of the DNC
  • Joan Osborne: Tangled Up in Blue
  • Jeff Buckley: Just Like a Woman
  • Bob Dylan: Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues (2015)
    Bob Dylan: Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues
  • Emily Kincaid in Bob Dylan: Visions of Johanna (2015)
    Bob Dylan: Visions of Johanna
  • Thom Artway: Only a Hobo (Bob Dylan Cover)
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Elvis, Whitney and Weird Al: Everything We Know About Upcoming Music Biopics
Good Morning, Vietnam: 25th Anniversary Edition
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Good Morning, Vietnam: 25th Anniversary Edition
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Bob Dylan Revealed
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Bob Dylan Revealed
Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and the Band
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Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and the Band
Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese
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Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese
Bob Dylan: 1966-1978 - After the Crash
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Bob Dylan: 1966-1978 - After the Crash
The Last Waltz
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The Last Waltz
No Direction Home: Bob Dylan
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No Direction Home: Bob Dylan

Personal details

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  • Official sites
    • Apple Music
    • Facebook
    • May 24, 1941
    • Duluth, Minnesota, USA
    • Carolyn DennisJune 4, 1986 - October 1992 (divorced, 1 child)
    • Jakob Dylan
  • Other works
    Music video: Appeared in Wyclef Jean video "Gone 'Til November"
  • Publicity listings
    • 6 Biographical Movies
    • 14 Print Biographies
    • 4 Portrayals
    • 7 Interviews
    • 125 Articles
    • 2 Pictorials
    • 123 Magazine Cover Photos

Did you know

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    Although he had several stalkers over the years, perhaps the most dogged was the self-titled Dylanologist, A.J. Weberman. This obsessed fan started the "Dylan Liberation Front," protesting that Dylan had sold out and has abandoned his political causes (in reality, Dylan was never very political). Weberman staged several "protests" in front of Dylan's home, rooted through Dylan's garbage repeatedly, and accused Dylan of heroin use. After Weberman pushed aside Dylan's wife, Sara, and broke into Dylan's home, Dylan lost his patience and defeated his considerably beefier stalker in a fight.
  • Quotes
    I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.
    • Distinctive voice

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