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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.

It’s hard to imagine a world without ‘Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band‘. The physicist C.P. Snow once said if Einstein hadn’t locked himself away, indulged in a spot of chin-stroking and eventually conceived the General Theory of Relativity, which revolutionised the way we think about science, we’d still be waiting for that idea to occur to someone else now. In the same vein, you have to wonder that if The Beatles hadn’t locked themselves away in Abbey Road during those few fruitful months over 40 years ago, following their self-imposed exile from live duties in 1966, whether we might equally still be waiting for a band to revolutionise the face of popular music today.

As Bob Dylan celebrates his 70th birthday today, here we take a look at ten of our essential picks from his extensive, and almost unrivalled, back catalogue.

A previously unheard Bob Dylan interview, originally recorded in 1966, sheds light on the legendary songwriter’s battles with drugs during the Sixties.

Bob Dylan is to headline the London Feis music festival this June, which aims to celebrate the best of 21 years of Irish and international music.

Rock veterans The Eagles and Killers frontman Brandon Flowers are amongst the first acts to be confirmed for this year’s Hop Farm festival, which will take place this July in Kent.

British folk-rockers Mumford & Sons are to perform with the legendary Bob Dylan at this year’s Grammy Awards ceremony, it has been announced.