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The first taster from he forthcoming Bob Dylan tribute album in aid of Amnesty International, which includes covers from acts as diverse as Queens Of The Stone Age, We Are Augustines and Miley Cyrus, has emerged online.

Don DeVito, the producer who manned the desk for some of Bob Dylan‘s most iconic releases, has died after a long battle with cancer.

A statement released today by Columbia confirmed the news that DeVito has passed away after suffering with prostate cancer for 16 years.

Teen popstar Miley Cyrus is one of the more surprising inclusions on a forthcoming Bob Dylan tribute album which has been compiled by Amnesty International, whose tracklisting was confirmed today.

Artists including Adele, Patti Smith and My Morning Jacket are to contribute covers to a new Bob Dylan compilation in aid of Amnesty International.

‘Chimes of Freedom: Songs of Bob Dylan Honoring 50 Years of Amnesty International‘ is set for release early next year, with all proceeds from sales going towards the charity.

Rock’s Backpages, the world’s largest collection of online rock journalism, has announced the launch of its new Backpages eBooks division, which is to be headed up by former MOJO editor Mat Snow. The launch of the new ebook division of Backpages will mark the library’s 10th year in November.

The Backpages ebooks consist of two series, the first being Backpages Classics, which reproduces some of the best music books published during the course of the last 40 years, and will begin with seminal titles by Simon Reynolds, Barney Hoskyns, Bud Scoppa and John Pidgeon.

Artists including former White Stripes mainman Jack White and the legendary Bob Dylan have been confirmed to appear on a new compilation album celebrating the work of the late Hank Williams.

Entitled ‘The Lost Notebooks Of Hank Williams‘, the album will see 12 tracks newly-recorded by various stars using only unfinished lyrics and ideas which were found in a briefcase belonging to Williams after his death in 1953.

Bob Dylan will tour the UK this coming October, with support coming from Dire Straits veteran Mark Knopfler.

The legendary songwriter will begin the six-date arena tour with two shows at the Glasgow Braehead Arena on the 8th and 9th of October. The jaunt will then move on the Manchester Evening News Arena a day later, followed by stops in Cardiff and Nottingham before the curtain is brought down at the Bournemouth International Centre on October 13th.

You know when you wait an age for a follow-up album to an earth-shattering debut, praying to the great turntable in the sky that it’s as good as the first one?

Then you hear it, and your wish is granted. It is as good. In fact, it’s exactly the same as the first album. Oh well. That was forty minutes of your life you’ll never see again.

With that in mind – good news for Bon Iver fans. Your wish has been ignored.

Original lyrics for some of Bob Dylan‘s classic 1960′s output have been recently discovered and are to be put up for auction at Christie’s later this month.

Despite his well documented love of all things Sixties, Beady Eye frontman Liam Gallagher has said he is not a fan of one of the decade’s greatest talents, Bob Dylan.