According to Knopfler, it was Dylan's idea to recruit Robbie Shakespeare and Sly Dunbar as the rhythm section.

Casting about for a song idea while relaxing in a garden near Bob Dylan's recording studio, Harrison was inspired when he noticed a box in Dylan's garage that was labelled " Handle with Care ".

The idea of blending the pedal-steel syncopation of Mansfield, Ronson's glam-rock lead breaks, and Rivera's electric violin made for something as musically layered as Dylan's lyrics ... also displayed a vocal precision rare even for him, snapping and stretching words to cajole nuances of meaning from each and every line.

He also led an all-star band ( dubbed " The Secret Police ") on his own arrangement of Bob Dylan's " I Shall Be Released ".

Sting also led an impromptu super-group of other musicians ( dubbed The Secret Police ) performing at the show including Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Phil Collins, Donovan, Bob Geldof and Midge Ure in the show's grand finale – Sting's own reggae-tinged arrangement of Bob Dylan's I Shall Be Released.

The album features the band's distinctive sound on songs ranging from their own psychedelic masterpiece " Slip Inside this House " to a trippy cover of Bob Dylan's " It's All Over Now, Baby Blue ".

" Burke's version was released just prior to Dylan's own single release, and outperformed it on the charts.

In addition, Dylan's producer Tom Wilson, whose own musical leanings were oriented more towards jazz and soul than folk music, had been encouraging Dylan to experiment with an electric band since 1964.

Along with his own compositions, Zevon recorded or performed occasional covers, including Bob Dylan's " Knockin ' on Heaven's Door " and Leonard Cohen's " First We Take Manhattan ".

Franklin, a teenaged African-American actor, plays a character called Woody, referencing Woody Guthrie's influence on Dylan's early career, and making a playful visual joke on Dylan's early habit of passing himself off as a drifter from the Dustbowl Southern states and denying his own middle-class Mid-Western origins.

Among the songs recorded that night were the harrowing, racially-charged morality tale " Black Cross ," Big Joe Williams ' " Baby Please Don't Go " ( in which Dylan displays his growing skills at bottleneck guitar ), the Pentecostal " Wade in the Water ", Dylan's own reinterpretation of the traditional " Nine Hundred Miles " ( retitled " I Was Young When I Left Home " and later issued on The Bootleg Series Vol.

Pennebaker would also film Dylan's subsequent tour of England in 1966, but while some of this work has been released in different forms ( supplying the framework for Martin Scorsese's Bob Dylan documentary, No Direction Home, and re-edited by Dylan himself in the rarely-distributed Eat the Document ), Pennebaker's own film of the tour ( Something Is Happening ) remains unreleased.

Nevertheless, the tour itself has become one of the most celebrated events in rock history, and some of the Nagra recordings made for Pennebaker's film were later released on Dylan's own records.

Desire closes with " Sara ", arguably Dylan's most public display of his own personal life.

The Rolling Thunder Revue was also augmented by guest musicians such as Mick Ronson ( best known for his work with David Bowie ) and other artists such as Roger McGuinn, Joni Mitchell, and Joan Baez who not only contributed during Dylan's set, but also played complete sets of their own.

He disputed their categorization as protest songs and mused that Dylan's songs about oppressed " heroes " may have been a reflection of Dylan's own feelings at the time.

In the meantime, Dylan's latest tour was getting its own share of negative reviews, many of which reflected the negative criticism waiting to greet the American release of Bob Dylan at Budokan, taken from performances held in early 1978.

In a year when Van Morrison and Patti Smith released their own spiritual works in Into the Music and Wave, respectively, Dylan's album seemed vitriolic and bitter in comparison.

The album features Lisa's own compositions, plus two songs by Melbourne friends ( one each from Dave Graney and Conway Savage ), and two US classics: Bob Dylan's " You're A Big Girl Now " and Dan Penn's " Woman Left Lonely " ( previously recorded by both Charlie Rich and Janis Joplin ).

" It's irritating to hear Dylan's songs so manipulated, but there are sufficient nice tracks —" Most of the Time ", " Shooting Star ", both simple and direct, among them — to make this by far the most coherent and listenable collection of his own songs Dylan has released since Desire.

After Peckinpah completed his own cut of Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid, MGM re-cut the film without his input, removing several significant scenes and re-shuffling most of Dylan's music in the process.

Springsteen's performance is rousing and fervent, transforming the song into a ringing anthem for the full E Street Band, without losing the power of the words evident in Dylan's own solo performance.

A shy teenager, Bob Dylan's " Like a Rolling Stone " inspired him to pick up a guitar and start writing his own songs.

With Ballard and Henrit on board as fulltime members, the Unit 4 + 2 sound had toughened up, but a stab at Bob Dylan's " You Ain't Goin ' Nowhere " was comprehensively outsold by The Byrds own cover version ..

He was annoyed because the first two verses of Dylan's song were a parody of his own song.

Seizing the chance, the duo's U. S. producer, Tom Wilson, inspired by the Byrds ' hugely popular electric versions of Bob Dylan songs, used Dylan's studio band ( who had collaborated with him on his landmark hit " Like a Rolling Stone " that year ) to dub electric guitars, bass and drums onto the original " Sound of Silence " track, and released it as a single, backed with " We've Got a Groovy Thing Goin '".

After the success of Music from Big Pink, the band went on tour, including a performance at the Woodstock Festival ( which was not included in the famed Woodstock film due to legal complications ) and an appearance with Dylan at the UK Isle of Wight Festival ( several songs from which were subsequently included on Dylan's Self Portrait album ).

The Alpha Band was a rock band formed in July 1976 from the remnants of Bob Dylan's Rolling Thunder Revue.

Bob Dylan asked Mansfield to tour with him on his 1975 Rolling Thunder Revue tour ; he remained in Dylan's band through their 1978 world tour.

After the Revue ended in 1976, Mansfield and two other members of Dylan's band, T-Bone Burnett and Steven Soles, formed The Alpha Band.

When that tour ended, Soles and two other members of Dylan's band, T-Bone Burnett and David Mansfield, formed The Alpha Band.

The band Old 97's took another Bob Dylan song Desolation Row and combined its melody with new lyrics to make a new song " Champaign, Illinois ", which they released with Dylan's blessing on their 2010 album The Grand Theatre Volume One.

Dylan's July 25, 1965 appearance at the Newport Folk Festival with an electric backing band is also considered a pivotal moment in the development of folk rock.

The Byrds ' reworking of " Mr. Tambourine Man ", along with The Animals ' rock interpretation of " The House of the Rising Sun " ( itself based on Dylan's earlier cover ), helped to provide Dylan himself with the impetus to start recording with an electric backing band.

As previously mentioned, Dylan's decision to record with an electric backing band had been influenced by a number of factors, including The Beatles ' coupling of folk derived chord progressions and beat music, The Byrds ' rock adaptation of " Mr. Tambourine Man ", and The Animal's hit cover of " The House of the Rising Sun ".

In fact, the Bringing It All Back Home sessions did not represent Dylan's first experiments with a backing band ; during the sessions for The Freewheelin ' Bob Dylan album in October 1962, Dylan had recorded the non-album single " Mixed-Up Confusion " with a skifflesque backing band.

Prior to recording with Albini, the band recorded a second session with John Peel on 22 September and recorded a version of Bob Dylan's " Highway 61 Revisited ," and two new songs " Me Jane " and " Ecstasy.

Members of Dylan's band ( with Dylan himself writing one and co-writing two ) wrote most of the songs on Music from Big Pink at or around the house, and the band then adopted the name The Band.

The band became notable for several Top 40 hits beginning with their cover version of Bob Dylan's " It Ain't Me Babe " in 1965.

The band had several minor hits, including " Golden Ball and Chain " and a blistering rock version of Bob Dylan's " Absolutely Sweet Marie.

Described by Riley as " the unalloyed sting of a romantic perfidy ", " I Don't Believe You ( She Acts Like We Never Have Met )" would be dramatically rearranged for a full-electric rock band during Dylan's famous 1966 tour with The Hawks.

This featured the band in New York and at one point featured frontman Ben Volpeliere-Pierrot dancing down a side street whilst Andy Warhol referenced Bob Dylan's " Subterranean Homesick Blues " by dropping pieces of white card in time to the music ( an effect originally done in a long-form promotional film by Bob Dylan for " Subterranean Homesick Blues " in 1965 and also copied by Warhol as well as INXS in their video for " Mediate " in 1988 as well as many other bands ).

Bob Dylan's 1963 and 1964 performances solo and with Baez had made him popular with the Newport crowd, but on July 25, 1965 Dylan was booed by some fans when he played with backing from Mike Bloomfield on guitar and others from an electric blues / rock and roll band known as the Paul Butterfield Blues Band while headlining the festival.

The band also covered Bob Dylan's " I'll Keep It with Mine " for the soundtrack of the 1996 indie film I Shot Andy Warhol.

The band was named after Bob Dylan's 1966 album of the same name.

Cobb gave the band a song he had written called " Sweet Young Thing ", which was recorded and released in December 1966 on Tower Records, which featured the group's cover of Bob Dylan's " It's All Over Now, Baby Blue " as the B-side.