Happy birthday Bob Dylan: His top 10 songs
As Dylan blows out 74 candles on his birthday cake on Sunday, here’s a playlist that captures some of the changes in the legend’s musical style over the decades.
Hindustan Times | By HT Correspondent, New Delhi
UPDATED ON MAY 24, 2015 06:08 PM IST
When Bob Dylan announced his 36th album would be a collection of pop standards originally recorded by Frank Sinatra, most long-time fans were dumbfounded. But the resultant album "Shadows In The Night" showed the singer-songwriter make the tunes all his own, using his ageing, gravelly voice to produce a record that was, well, Dylanesque.
But then Dylan has always been about change, whether it was trading in his trusted acoustic guitar to go electric in 1965, becoming a born again Christian in the late 1970s (a change that influenced his music on several albums) or flirting disastrously with contemporary sounds in the mid-1980s before making a strong comeback with the album "Oh Mercy".
As Dylan blows out 74 candles on his birthday cake on Sunday, here’s a playlist that captures some of the changes in the legend’s musical style over the decades.
1. Blowin In The Wind
2. Mr Tambourine Man
3. Like A Rolling Stone
4. Just Like A Woman
5. Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door
6. Forever Young
7. Not Dark Yet
8. Things Have Changed
9. Series Of Dreams
10. The Night We Called It A Day
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But then Dylan has always been about change, whether it was trading in his trusted acoustic guitar to go electric in 1965, becoming a born again Christian in the late 1970s (a change that influenced his music on several albums) or flirting disastrously with contemporary sounds in the mid-1980s before making a strong comeback with the album "Oh Mercy".
As Dylan blows out 74 candles on his birthday cake on Sunday, here’s a playlist that captures some of the changes in the legend’s musical style over the decades.
1. Blowin In The Wind
2. Mr Tambourine Man
3. Like A Rolling Stone
4. Just Like A Woman
5. Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door
6. Forever Young
7. Not Dark Yet
8. Things Have Changed
9. Series Of Dreams
10. The Night We Called It A Day
