Bob Dylan To Receive Medal Of Freedom Tuesday

Bob Dylan's complete professionally recorded second leg of the Rolling Thunder Revue will be released as a 39-disc collection featuring 381 performances, including 371 tracks that have never previously been issued.

Bob Dylan's Hard Rain captured the Rolling Thunder Revue in concert in 1976, combining performances from Fort Collins and Fort Worth as the live album reached the charts alongside an NBC television special.

Bob Dylan's Modern Times turns 20 on August 29, marking the anniversary of the album that returned him to No. 1 in America for the first time in three decades and reinforced one of the most remarkable late-career runs in popular music.

Eric Clapton's fourth solo album No Reason To Cry turns 50, marking the anniversary of a record made when Clapton was one of the biggest names in rock and surrounded by members of The Band, Bob Dylan and a remarkable circle of musicians.

Forty years after its release, Bob Dylan's Knocked Out Loaded remains one of the most debated records in his extensive catalogue, remembered as a commercial disappointment that nevertheless produced the enduring epic Brownsville Girl.

Sixty years after its release, Bob Dylan's Blonde On Blonde remains a defining moment in modern music history, capturing the shift from folk to electric rock and setting a new benchmark for studio ambition and lyrical scope.

Paul McCartney used BBC Radio's Tracks Of My Years with Vernon Kay to map the records that shaped his life, from Gene Vincent and Chuck Berry to John Lennon, while sharing stories about Elvis Presley, The Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan and the artists he sees carrying global pop culture today.