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Possibly the greatest songwriter of all time

The impact of Bob Dylan cannot be overstated. Nobody else so revolutionised the way we think about singing, songwriting, music as protest and the very definition of folk music, all in their first decade as a performer. That Dylan did all this while remaining elusive, chameleonic and defiant sets him apart from almost anyone else to ever sing into a microphone.

As with all things Dylan, the truth is often secondary to the myth. He was born in Duluth, Minnesota as Robert Zimmerman and journeyed to New York (some say by car, he says by riding the rails) to forge his path in the city’s burgeoning folk scene. A devoted disciple of Woody Guthrie, the young Bob spent time with the famous folkie prior to his death and rapidly established himself as singer of repute in the venues of Greenwich Village.

It was there that he crossed paths with musical Svengali Albert Hammond, who promptly signed Dylan to Columbia Records in 1961. Dylan’s debut Bob Dylan came out later that year, mostly consisting of covers of folk standards. But it was Dylan’s second record that would really have an impact. The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan announced its creator’s arrival with some force, particularly on protest songs 'Blowin’ In The Wind' and 'Masters Of War' and bittersweet ballads 'Girl From The North Country' and 'Don’t Think Twice, It’s Alright'.

Dylan cemented his reputation with The Times They Are A-Changing, released in 1964. It was a far more serious album than its predecessor, maybe due to the gathering clouds of war that inspired the title track or the breakup with Suze Rotolo that inspired the broken-hearted 'Boots Of Spanish Leather'.

Just seven months later, Dylan delivered another masterpiece. Another Side Of Bob Dylan, again epitomised both the fired-up protester, the cynic and the romantic across songs such as 'Chimes Of Freedom' and 'It Ain’t Me, Babe', both empowered by a songwriter allowing himself to become more and more impressionistic.

While Dylan’s reputation had been made as a folkie, the signs were showing that he had little interest in the confines of the genre. That became glaringly obvious on 1965’s Bringing It All Back Home, which featured sinful electric guitars and rollicking tracks such as 'Subterranean Homesick Blues' and 'Maggie’s Farm'. 'Mr Tambourine Man' would become a huge hit for The Byrds and D.A. Pennebaker immortalised Dylan in his acclaimed documentary Don’t Look Back.

While the dyed-in-the-wool folkies were up in arms over their hero’s traitorous about-face, Dylan went about releasing yet another masterpiece, this time going fully electric for Highway 61 Revisited. The result was a searing, surreal rock record that stands as one of his best, right from the careening, organ-drenched opener 'Like A Rolling Stone' to the bleakly cynical epic 'Desolation Row'.

Dylan’s electric, impressionistic period culminated with 1966’s wonderfully eccentric and hallucinatory double album Blonde On Blonde, a record that heavily featured Robbie Robertson and the band that would become The Band. Dylan was now officially a huge global star but a motorcycle accident that year left him with serious injuries and he retreated from the public eye while he recovered.

Ever the restless wanderer, Dylan was acoustic again when he returned, but still not the folkie of his early records. His 1967 album John Wesley Harding found him making overtures towards the countrified sound that leapt to the fore on 1969’s Nashville Skyline. As ever, Dylan shows little regard for his own legend, going so far as to completely changing the voice that had become his hallmark. He scored a top ten hit with Lay Lady Lay and Self-Portrait rounded out the decade.

Dylan started off his second decade in the public eye with 1970’s New Morning, another country-tinged record, followed by a foray into acting in Sam Peckinpah’s Pat Garrett And Billy The Kid. Dylan also wrote the soundtrack, scoring a hit with 'Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door'.

Dylan departed Columbia Records afterwards and signed to Asylum for 1974’s Planet Waves, his first No.1 album. He then hit the road with The Band in tow, resulting in the double live album Before The Flood.

Dylan poured the disintegration of his marriage to Sara Lownds into Blood On The Tracks, his most commercially successful album since the mid-60s and his second No.1 record. The following autumn, he assembled the Rolling Thunder Revue, a huge tour including Joni Mitchell, Joan Baez, Arlo Guthrie, Roger McGuinn and Allen Ginsberg and headed out on the road. Footage from the tour would appear in the film Renaldo And Clara and the Martin Scorsese documentary Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story, while recordings formed the live album Hard Rain.

Mid-tour, Dylan released Desire, again to critical acclaim, especially the song 'Hurricane', which recounts the story of Rubin Carter, a boxer wrongly convicted of murder. Shortly after 1978’s Street Legal, Dylan announced he had converted to Christianity, releasing a trilogy of religious albums Slow Train Coming, Saved and Shot Of Love.

Dylan was back in secular territory with Infidels (1983) and Empire Burlesque (1985). He followed the latter with a tour with Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, a partnership that would eventually lead to the formation of The Travelling Wilburys (featuring Dylan, Petty, George Harrison, Roy Orbison and Jeff Lynne).

On record, Dylan hit another peak in 1989 when he recorded Oh Mercy with Daniel Lanois. The result was Dylan’s best received album since Desire. Another Wilburys record and Under The Red Sky followed and Dylan commenced his Bootleg series in 1991, which would delve deeper and deeper into his archives over the years, producing outtakes, alternate versions, live albums and unreleased tracks. He returned to the folk standards of his youth on the acclaimed Good As I Been To You (1992) and World Gone Wrong (1993).

To ever view Dylan as outdated would be foolish and anyone who did so in the 90s was corrected by Time Out Of Mind, the 1998 album that won three Grammys, peaked in the top ten and went multi-Platinum. His rejuvenation continued with the well-received Love And Theft in 2001.

Dylan continued to defy expectation, assembling a starry cast for his film Masked And Anonymous, scoring a No.1 album with Modern Times in 2006, releasing a Christmas album and two albums of songs made famous by Frank Sinatra. In 2016, he won the Nobel prize for literature but declined to show up for the ceremony.

In 2020, as much of the world was heading into lockdown, Dylan returned with a true epic: the 11-minute single Murder Most Foul, a stream-of-consciousness journey through the conspiracy to murder JFK. It was heralded as one of his finest songs. The album Rough And Rowdy Ways, his first album of original material since 2012, followed later that year.

Reviews

Rating: 3.3 out of 5 based on 18 reviews
  • How does he do it

    by JerryM on 11/11/2024Motorpoint Arena Nottingham - NottinghamRating: 5 out of 5

    Brilliant excellent acoustics. How does he keep going for 2 hours without stopping. Really enjoyable. Only minor complaint is stadium could have done with some screens but in reality that did not affect the enjoyment of the concert

  • A great concert in Nottingham

    by LM on 09/11/2024Rating: 5 out of 5

    A true genius in concert. This is the first time I've seen Bob Dylan live and I'm so glad I didn't miss this opportunity. The staging was intimate and low key even in a huge arena, the band had great chemistry and presence, Bob played the piano and mouth organ and his voice was as strong and distinctive as ever. He performed some of his greatest hits along with songs from his latest album. Just excellent. And still working and creating in his 80s - inspirational. God bless.

  • Worst concert ever!

    by Matty Duke on 09/11/2024Rating: 1 out of 5

    As others have said, completely incomprehensible vocals, zero interaction with the audience, none of his even vaguely popular songs were played, abysmal stage lighting, no video screens to at least give the people at the middle or back a chance to see what is going on stage. No thanks and good bye at the end just lights off and they walked off. No encore. Miserable arrogance and loathing for his fans.

  • The Bobster was on good form tonight

    by PM on 07/11/2024Usher Hall - EdinburghRating: 4 out of 5

    Dylan was good tonight, much better than when we saw him the last 2 times. None of that crooning, Sinatra imitation stuff. Rough and Ready Ways is not a great album, but this band made the songs come alive. Great opener when his first words to us were "too much confusion here ....". His voice has improved, and we could really hear him. Great band. Fabulous remake of Desolation Row, very rock 'n roll now with a fast, sustained snare drum that channels the Surfaris' Wipeout from long, long ago. Would have been nice if he could do Rolling Stone, Highway 61, or such like.

  • A huge disappointment!

    by LTA on 06/11/2024Usher Hall - EdinburghRating: 1 out of 5

    Even allowing for his age, this was quite the most underwhelming, boring concert I have been to in a long time. Words completely incomprehensible, backing grossly overamped (to cover vocal shortcomings,?) Complete lack of empathy with his audience. Absolute waste of time and money. Unable to give it zero stars.

  • Interesting as ever!

    by Seons on 06/11/2024Usher Hall - EdinburghRating: 3 out of 5

    Always on his terms. Started on time...ran to 9.15pm...and gone! No encores. Now relying on his band, piano and mouth organ. Mic much lower than instruments and even for him very rambly on some tracks...even his drummer lost his way. You've proved your point Bob... Unless you truly love his work I would give this a miss.

  • Far from Rough and Rowdy Ways.

    by What time is Bob on? on 05/11/2024M&S Bank Arena Liverpool - LiverpoolRating: 1 out of 5

    Queued outside for 30 minutes due to chaotic and poor security, who didn't seem sure of how many lines there should be, 1, 2 or 3? And only checked one of our tickets before waving us through as the music started! No offers of the phone pouch we'd paid for! Apologies to anyone who was disturbed by our entrance, we were all aware of the starting time, but despite allowing enough time to get in and seated, we were stuck outside due to circumstances beyond our control. Perhaps When we eventually got in, it was pitch black and couldn't use our phones because we'd switched them off out of respect for the artist and fellow fans, so couldn't use the torch on our phones to find the correct row, even with assistance from the staff, it was extremely difficult. Finally got seat, but despite having floor seats near the middle, we couldn't see much, the set was dimly lit, screens switched off and turned sideways, I could see the top of my set, unfortunately, the Mrs couldn't see anything. The sound quality wasn't the best, we could hear quite clearly what the people were saying behind us, and they were not best pleased either. There were lots of people wandering around, probably trying to get a glimpse of what they'd paid for, but them being taken back to their seats, including a guy who didn't seem to have a ticket, being told to just sit and watch from behind us, who, as soon as the security left him, got up and walked back down to the front. We are regular concert goers, and at £115 per ticket is up there price wise, and didn't feel that the performance warranted the price tag. You don't go to a concert to hear the music, that's what radios are for. Overall a very expensively disappointing evening.

  • Bob Dylan Liverpool arena

    by Nwgeordie on 05/11/2024M&S Bank Arena Liverpool - LiverpoolRating: 5 out of 5

    Typical Bob Dylan. No big screen. Not much talking. But wow! Still got the voice. Perfect enunciation on every song. Fantastic band. Great music. Only proble. I did not really see the great man.

  • Very disappointed

    by Sanny on 05/11/2024M&S Bank Arena Liverpool - LiverpoolRating: 1 out of 5

    Stage was so dark you couldn't see anything or even make anyone out,no screens either and he didn't sing any of his hit songs

  • Don't bother

    by Laura on 04/11/2024M&S Bank Arena Liverpool - LiverpoolRating: 1 out of 5

    Awful!! No production at all, black curtain all around the strange, no screens, if you're not front row don't bother won't see thing. Evey song sound the exact same, he no long sings songs as much as talks the words. Strangest concert experience ever!!