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The Bently Boys record Down On Penny's Farm, in Johnson City, Tennessee, USA, for Columbia Records. Bob Dylan will adapt this song, using it as the basis of Maggie's Farm.
The John
Birch Society, a radical right-wing organisation devoted to
fighting the influence of communism, is established in
Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. Alarmed by its activities, Bob Dylan will write his song
Talking John
Birch Paranoid Blues in 1962, and will be prevented from singing it on television.
Bob Dylan is given The Tom Paine Award by the Emergency Civil Liberties Committee for his work to advance civil rights, at the Bill Of Rights Dinner in the Americana Hotel, New York City, USA. To everyone's surprise, Dylan delivers a controversial acceptance speech which angers many of the attendees at the event.
Bob Dylan is photographed by Bob Russell for Life Magazine in New York City, USA.
In poet Kenneth Rexroth’s regular column in the San Francisco Examiner, he declares, among other things, that "Bob Dylan's songs are a cry of anguished moral outrage against the mess the oldies persist in making out of a world in which all men could be guaranteed lives of peace and modest comfort if only the will existed."
Bob Dylan's Subterranean Homesick Blues enters the UK singles chart at No20. It will peak at No9 during a nine-week run.
The Byrds release their new single, a cover of Bob Dylan's All I Really Want To Do, in the UK on CBS Records.
Two versions of Bob Dylan's song It's All Over Now Baby Blue, one by Leroy Van Dyke and one by The Cops'N Robbers, are released in the UK.
Joe And Eddie release a cover of the Bob Dylan composition It Ain't Me, Babe, in the UK on Vocalion Records.
Bob Dylan plays the first of two nights at the Massey Hall, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Bob Dylan releases a new single, Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window?/Highway 61 Revisited on CBS Records in the UK.
Bob Dylan is recording Stuck Inside Of Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again in Columbia's Music Row Studios, Nashville, Tennessee, USA, for his Columbia Records album Blonde On Blonde.
The Byrds' cover version of the Bob Dylan song You Ain't Going Nowhere enters the UK pop singles chart where it will peak at No45 during a three-week run.
On the first day of sessions for the album Self Portrait, Bob Dylan records the songs Spanish Is The Loving Tongue and Living The Blues in Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
Traffic in San Francisco, California, USA, is backed up for five blocks from one post office, because of mail-order demand for Bob Dylan concert tickets, which have gone on sale today.
Bob Dylan and The Band play the second of two nights at Chicago Stadium, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Bob Dylan is in A&R Recording, New York City, working on songs including Buckets Of Rain, If You See Her, Say Hello and Meet Me In The Morning for the album Blood On The Tracks.
The Band's farewell show at Winterland, San Francisco, California, USA, features Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, Dr John, Eric Clapton and others. The event is filmed by Martin Scorsese as The Last Waltz.
When XTC record a live show at The Hippodrome, Golders Green, London, England, UK, Europe, for the BBC tv programme Sight And Sound in Concert, they perform the Bob Dylan song All Along the Watchtower.
Background singer Carolyn Dennis has her first audition to join Bob Dylan's band in Santa Monica, California, USA.
Bob Dylan plays at The McKale Memorial Center, University Of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA.
Bob Dylan is in Muscle Shoals Sound Studios, Sheffield, Alabama, USA, working on songs including When You Gonna Wake Up, with Mark Knopfler of Dire Straits on guitar.
On his Slow Train Coming Tour, Bob Dylan plays the seventh of fourteen nights at the Warfield Theatre, San Francisco, California, USA.
On his Slow Train Coming Tour, Bob Dylan plays the tenth of fourteen nights at the Warfield Theatre, San Francisco, California, USA.
During his third gospel tour, performing mostly religious material, Bob Dylan plays the first of two nights at the Landmark Theatre, Syracuse, New York State, USA.
During his third gospel tour, performing mostly religious material, Bob Dylan plays the first of three nights at the Stanley Theatre, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.During sessions for the album Shot Of Love, Bob Dylan is in Clover Studios, Los Angeles, California, USA, mixing the songs Heart Of Mine and The Groom's Still Waiting At The Altar.
Bob Dylan plays the first of two nights at Cincinnati Music Hall, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA.
Bob Dylan, who is in London, England, UK, to play at Wembley Stadium the next day, is spotted buying clothes in the King's Road, Chelsea.
Bob Dylan plays the first of three nights at Sony Centre for the Performing Arts, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.Bob Dylan compilation album The Best Of Bob Dylan enters the UK albums chart where it will peak at No6 during an eighteen-week run.
Bob Dylan's album, Together Through Life, reaches No1 in the USA and UK charts simultaneously. As a result, Dylan becomes the oldest artist to have a No1 album in the UK.
Two new Bob Dylan box sets, The Witmark Demos 1962-1964 and The Original Mono Recordings, are released internationally.
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