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After a 37-year absence, Bob Dylan returned to the Newport Folk Festival, performing a two-hour, 19-song set.
Related events
- Bob Dylan's song “Like a Rolling Stone” won an Uncut magazine poll of the music, films, television shows and books that changed the world.
- The Bob Dylan biographical film I'm Not There: Suppositions on a Film Concerning Dylan premiered at the Venice Film Festival in Italy. Directed by Todd Haynes, the film features six actors portraying different aspects or periods of Dylan's life and music, including Cate Blanchett, Richard Gere, Heath Ledger and Christian Bale. Before its wider release later in 2007, the title was shortened to I'm Not There.
- During his weekly radio programme on 6 Music, Bob Dylan revealed that he was in talks with several car companies about possibly becoming the voice of their satellite navigation systems.
- After turning down an invitation to the original festival in 1969, he performed on the final day of Woodstock '94. On the main North Stage, he sang “It Ain't Me Babe”, “It's All Over Now, Baby Blue”, “Masters Of War”, “Just Like A Woman” and “Highway 61 Revisited”. Meanwhile, on the South Stage, Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong threw handfuls of mud at fans, triggering a massive mud fight. Bassist Mike Dirnt lost his front teeth in the chaos after being struck by a security guard.
- Bob Dylan performed in Columbus, Ohio, at the Ohio State Fair.
- Bob Dylan announced his intention to fight ticket scalpers by allowing fans to purchase only one ticket at the entrance to each concert.
- Paintings by Bob Dylan displayed at a museum in Copenhagen came under criticism from some Danish critics and academics.
- The album „The 30th Anniversary Concert Celebration“, honoring Bob Dylan's career, was released.
- Bob Dylan performed before more than 4,000 cadets at the US Military Academy at West Point, New York, in Eisenhower Hall. Many future army officers stood up and sang along to his anti-war song "Blowin' in the Wind".
- Bob Dylan was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, becoming the first songwriter to receive the honor. The Swedish Academy recognized him for creating new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition.