Bob Dylan

The Golden Chords play at the Winter Frolic Talent Contest in the Little Theatre of the Memorial Building, Hibbing Community College, Hibbing, Minnesota, USA. Their guitarist and singer Bob Zimmerman, will go on to find fame as Bob Dylan.

The future Bob Dylan, Bob Zimmerman, leaves Hibbing High School, Hibbing, Minnesota, noting in the yearbook that he intends 'to follow Little Richard?.

Bob Dylan plays the second of two nights at the Surbiton Folk Club, Surbiton, UK.

Folk group The New World Singers record the Bob Dylan song Don't Think Twice It's Alright for Atlantic Records in New York City, USA. At the same session they also record San Francisco Bay Blues and Stewball.

Bob Dylan is greeted by over one thousand fans when he lands at Heathrow Airport, London, UK, to begin a British tour. He holds a press conference, is filmed for BBC tv show Teen Scene, and is then driven to London's The Savoy Hotel for more interviews in the conference room before finally retiring to bed at around 2.30am.

Bob Dylan continues recording the album Highway 61 Revisited in Studio A, Columbia Recording Studios, New York City, USA. He works on songs including Highway 61 Revisited, Desolation Row and Ballad Of A Thin Man.

Noted Nashville-based session musician Charlie McCoy, during a visit to New York City, USA, rings Bob Dylan's record producer Bob Johnson, hoping to get tickets to a Broadway show. During their conversation, Johnson invited McCoy to meet Bob Dylan at Columbia Studios. Dylan invites McCoy to sit in on guitar for the track Desolation Row. At the end of the session, Johnson says to Dylan, "See how easy that was? That's how it would be in Nashville." Dylan begins seriously considering the idea of recording his next album in Nashville.

Bob Dylan plays at The Civic Coliseum, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA.

Bob Dylan plays at The Civic Auditorium, Pasadena, California, USA.

Bob Dylan plays at the Shrine Mosque, Richmond, Virginia, USA.

Bob Dylan plays at K.B.Hallen, Copenhagen, Denmark, Europe.

During recording sessions for the album Self Portrait, Bob Dylan records A Fool Such As I, Take Me As I Am and other tracks in Nashville, Tennessee, USA.

The Mama Cass Television Program airs in the USA, starring Mama Cass Elliot of the Mamas And Papas. During the show Mama Cass performs a version of the Bob Dylan song I Shall Be Released with Mary Travers (of Peter, Paul And Mary) and Joni Mitchell.

Bob Dylan is in Columbia Recording Studio E, New York City, USA, working on New Morning, Bring Me Water, Big Yellow Taxi and other songs.

Bob Dylan records Watchin' The River Flow, at Blue Rock Studio, New York City, with Leon Russell playing piano.

Bob Dylan releases his 14th studio album, Planet Waves, on Asylum Records, simultaneously in the USA and United Kingdom.

Bob Dylan and The Band play the first of two nights at the Forum, Los Angeles, California, USA.

Vincent Bell adds guitar and mandolin, and Dominic Cortese adds accordion to the Bob Dylan track Joey during an overdub session in Studio E, Columbia Recording Studios, New York City.

The Rolling Thunder Revue, a traveling cavalcade headed by Bob Dylan and featuring an ever-changing cast of his long-time musical comrades, plays at the City Coliseum, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada. (1975).

Singer Carolyn Dennis returns for a third audition to join Bob Dylan's band in Santa Monica, California, USA. She is invited to join Dylan for rehearsals.

Bob Dylan plays at the Forum de Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

Bob Dylan releases his live album, Bob Dylan At Budokan, in Japan.

Bob Dylan plays at the Municipal Auditorium, Nashville, Tennessee. An early version of Slow Train is tried out at the soundcheck.

On his Slow Train Coming Tour, Bob Dylan plays the eighth of fourteen nights at the Warfield Theatre in San Francisco, California, USA.

During sessions for the album Shot Of Love, Bob Dylan is in Clover Studios, Los Angeles, working on the songs Need A Woman, In The Summertime and Dead Man, Dead Man.

During the Shot Of Love tour Bob Dylan is interviewed at the White House Hotel, London by Dave Herman on behalf of WNEW-FM Radio, New York City, USA.

Bob Dylan plays at The Starlight Bowl, San Diego, California, USA.

Bob Dylan plays the second of three nights at The O'Keefe Centre For The Performing Arts, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Bob Dylan plays at Arlene Schnitzer Hall, Portland, Oregon, USA.

Bob Dylan plays at Minnesota State Fair, Falcon Heights, Minnesota, USA.

Bob Dylan plays at the University Of Mississippi, Tad Smith Coliseum, Oxford, Mississippi, USA.

Bob Dylan plays at the University Of Mississippi, Tad Smith Coliseum, Oxford, Mississippi, USA.

Bob Dylan plays the last of three nights at the Congress Hall Prague, Czech Republic, Europe.

Bob Dylan's album Desire earns a double platinum disc award from the R.I.A.A. in the USA. Simultaneously Blonde On Blonde and Freewheelin' are awarded platinum discs.

Bob Dylan plays at The Arena, Berlin, Germany, Europe.

The tribute album Is it Rolling Bob?: A Reggae Tribute to Bob Dylan is released. The album includes cover versions of songs written by Bob Dylan, performed by reggae artists including Toots Hibbert, Gregory Isaacs, Black Uhuru and Sly And Robbie.

Bob Dylan And Merle Haggard play at Foxwoods Resort Casino, Mashantucket, Connecticut, USA.

Bob Dylan plays at George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA.

Bob Dylan plays at George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA.

Bob Dylan plays the first of three nights at Terminal 5, New York City, USA.

On their Up All Night Tour, One Direction play at The Brighton Centre, Brighton, UK.

Bob Dylan releases a new compilation album, Constructing The Legend.