Dylan has been on his Never Ending Tour since 1988 and just completed the 116th leg of the tour in Japan and Hawaii.
Bob will release his 36th studio album this year. It is expected to be a Frank Sinatra covers record. The first song ‘Full Moon and Empty Arms’ was revealed last week.
Here are some other Dylan fun facts to mark Bob’s birthday today:
1. Bob Dylan once appeared in a Victoria’s Secret television commercial.
2. He has also appears in an ad for Chrysler where he also does the voice-over.
3. Bob Dylan has been on what is called the “Never Ending Tour” since June 7, 1988. He has performed 2580 shows over 116 legs since that date including 77 shows in Australia and New Zealand.
4. In 1997 Dylan performed for Pope John Paul II. At the time Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, the current Pope, tried to stop the Papal performance.
5. Bob Dylan once guest starred in the sitcom Dharma and Greg playing himself.
6. Bob Dylan was the star on the 1987 movie ‘Hearts Of Fire’ playing a retired rock star who becomes a farmer and then comes out of retirement to help and up and coming singer. The movie was a flop. Dylan disowned it and it has never been released on DVD.
7. When Bette Midler covered Dylan’s Buckets Of Rain, Bob sang backing vocals.
8. In recent years Australia’s Nash Edgerton has become Bob Dylans’s video director of choice. Edgerton has directed ‘Duquene Whistle’, ‘It Must Be Santa’ and ‘Beyond Here Lies Nothin’
By Paul Cashmere at Noise 11 - May 24th. Lots more video clips there.
From You Tube here are more details about the album:
From his upcoming album "Shadows in the Night" this 2014.
"Full Moon and Empty Arms" is a 1945 popular song by Buddy Kaye and Ted Mossman, based on Sergei Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2.
The best-known recording of the song was made by Frank Sinatra in 1945.
Other recordings: Erroll Garner Trio (Instr.)-1946, Eddie Fisher-1955, Donna Brooks-1956, Robert Goulet-1961, Sarah Vaughan-1963, Jerry Vale-1964 Bob Dylan-2014
Also recorded by: Caterina Valente; Mina; The Platters; Carmen Cavallaro; Jim Nabors; June Valli; Billy Vaughn.
Update:
BOB Dylan has marked his birthday by announcing a month-long, 11-date tour of Australia and New Zealand. The Blowin' in the Wind star, who turned 73 on Saturday, will play a series of relatively small venues during his first tour Down Under for more than 20 years.
“Dylan is stepping away from
playing large arenas, and instead draws the fans closer with performances in
some of the most iconic theatre venues in the country,” said promoters Chugg
Entertainment. “Some might say a deeply personal and welcoming atmosphere such
as this is the most appropriate environment in which to share the work of
Dylan.BOB Dylan has marked his birthday by announcing a month-long, 11-date tour of Australia and New Zealand. The Blowin' in the Wind star, who turned 73 on Saturday, will play a series of relatively small venues during his first tour Down Under for more than 20 years.
“Fans can anticipate a musical event of depth, grace and significance, delivered by one of the greats.” The tour starts at the Claudelands Arena in Hamilton, New Zealand, on August 9.
Dylan then plays two gigs at Perth's Riverside Theatre on August 13 and 14.
The tour heads to Melbourne's Palais Theatre on August 18 and 19 and Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre on August 25.
Dylan will then play gigs at Canberra's Royal Theatre on August 29, Adelaide Entertainment Centre on August 31 and Sydney State Theatre on September 3 and 4.
The tour ends at Christchurch's CBS Canterbury Arena on September 10.
With thanks to The Australian
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Update from The Australian - August 23rd:
WHEN Bob Dylan opened his Australian tour in Perth last week The Australian’s reviewer Polly Coufos made an astute observation about the 73-old-old master craftsman: “He will only do it his way or not at all.’’
That was as true 47 years ago for the songwriter as it is today. In 1967 Dylan was holed up in Woodstock in upstate New York, recovering from a motorcycle accident. He was also forging a new way, his way, by writing and recording ferociously in a variety of styles with his colleagues in The Band. Those recordings, more than 100 of them, became known as The Basement Tapes. Most of the tracks surfaced on bootlegs before an official album featuring 24 of them was released in 1975.
What no one knew at the time, or indeed until late last year, was that Dylan discarded many of the lyrics he penned during that period. His reasons for doing so aren’t known. What we do know is that 24 of the handwritten lyrics, which Dylan kept in a box folder marked “1967”, are about to see the light.
Last year Dylan gave the lost lyrics to American producer T Bone Burnett, in the hope that he might be able to do something with them. Burnett was able.
This week saw the worldwide release of Nothing To It, one of the 20 tracks featuring those Dylan lyrics that will feature on the album Lost On the River: The New Basement Tapes Vol. 1, in November. Five songwriters of Burnett’s choosing wrote music for Dylan’s words: Elvis Costello, Mumford and Sons’ Marcus Mumford, Jim James from the US band My Morning Jacket, Taylor Goldsmith from the group Dawes and singer and multi-instrumentalist Rhiannon Giddens from the Americana outfit Carolina Chocolate Drops. Under Burnett’s supervision, in the basement of Los Angeles’ Capital Studios, the five musos joined forces to record the songs, which have titles such as Spanish Mary, Lost On the River, Liberty Street and Kansas City.
In an exclusive interview in today’s Review section, Costello and Burnett explain how they got to grips with Dylan’s words, how the five musos each came up with different music for them and what it meant to be interpreting one of the greatest songwriters in history.
By Iain Shedden
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Update from The Australian - August 23rd:
WHEN Bob Dylan opened his Australian tour in Perth last week The Australian’s reviewer Polly Coufos made an astute observation about the 73-old-old master craftsman: “He will only do it his way or not at all.’’
That was as true 47 years ago for the songwriter as it is today. In 1967 Dylan was holed up in Woodstock in upstate New York, recovering from a motorcycle accident. He was also forging a new way, his way, by writing and recording ferociously in a variety of styles with his colleagues in The Band. Those recordings, more than 100 of them, became known as The Basement Tapes. Most of the tracks surfaced on bootlegs before an official album featuring 24 of them was released in 1975.
What no one knew at the time, or indeed until late last year, was that Dylan discarded many of the lyrics he penned during that period. His reasons for doing so aren’t known. What we do know is that 24 of the handwritten lyrics, which Dylan kept in a box folder marked “1967”, are about to see the light.
Last year Dylan gave the lost lyrics to American producer T Bone Burnett, in the hope that he might be able to do something with them. Burnett was able.
This week saw the worldwide release of Nothing To It, one of the 20 tracks featuring those Dylan lyrics that will feature on the album Lost On the River: The New Basement Tapes Vol. 1, in November. Five songwriters of Burnett’s choosing wrote music for Dylan’s words: Elvis Costello, Mumford and Sons’ Marcus Mumford, Jim James from the US band My Morning Jacket, Taylor Goldsmith from the group Dawes and singer and multi-instrumentalist Rhiannon Giddens from the Americana outfit Carolina Chocolate Drops. Under Burnett’s supervision, in the basement of Los Angeles’ Capital Studios, the five musos joined forces to record the songs, which have titles such as Spanish Mary, Lost On the River, Liberty Street and Kansas City.
In an exclusive interview in today’s Review section, Costello and Burnett explain how they got to grips with Dylan’s words, how the five musos each came up with different music for them and what it meant to be interpreting one of the greatest songwriters in history.
By Iain Shedden
