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Bob Dylan makes his Billboard album chart debut in the USA when his second LP, The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan, enters at No125. It will peak at No22.
Bob Dylan makes his first entry into the UK charts with his single
The Times They Are A-Changin'. The song will peak at No9.
Bob Dylan is at the Newport Folk Festival, Freebody Park, Newport, Rhode Island, USA, but does not perform on this day The three-day event also features Johnny Cash, Pete Seeger,
Johnny Cash records the Bob Dylan composition It Ain't Me Babe, at Columbia Recording Studio, 804 16th Avenue South, Nashville, Tennessee, USA. Sessioneers include Charlie McCoy on harmonica and Norman Blake on guitar, with The Carter Family supplying harmony vocals.
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The Beach Boys play the first of two nights at the Waikiki Shell, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA. Bruce Johnston of The Beach Boys remembers, "Carl Wilson and I really loved She Belongs To Me by Bob Dylan. I remember in the Hilton Hawaiian Village hotel, we had a record player in the suite and we just played that song over and over and over."The Top Ten Singles in the More Music Survey on Radio WIXY, Cleveland, Ohio, for the week beginning on this date are as follows :
- Monday Monday The Mamas & The Papas
- Good Lovin' - The Young Rascals
- Rainy Day Women Nos12 & 35 - Bob Dylan
- Sloop John B - The Beach Boys
- Leaning On A Lampost - Herman's Hermits
- Shapes Of Things - The Yardbirds
- A Groovy Kind Of Love - The Mindbenders
- Message To Michael - Dionne Warwick
- Secret Agent Man - Johnny Rivers
- I Can't Let Go - The Hollies
On his 25th birthday, Bob Dylan plays at L'Olympia, Paris, France, Europe, where the electric set is performed in front of a huge Stars And Stripes flag. Backstage, he meets with French pop idols Francoise Hardy and Johnny Hallyday.Manfred Mann enter the UK pop singles chart with their version of Bob Dylan's Just Like A Woman, which will peak at No10.
The Four Tops release a new single, Reach Out, I'll Be There, in the USA. The song is said to have been
inspired, at least in part, by Bob Dylan.
One of the first bootleg albums, The Great White Wonder by Bob Dylan, goes on sale in Los Angeles, California, USA.
Bob Dylan is in Columbia Recording Studio E, New York City, USA, working on New Morning, Bring Me Water, Big Yellow Taxi and other songs.
Olivia Newton-John's version of the Bob Dylan song If Not For You reaches No1 in the South African pop singles chart.
Radio station KPFA-FM in Berkeley, California, transmits a documentary entitled The Jewish Bob Dylan in which Bernard Timberg analyzes the songs of Bob Dylan from the perspective of Jewish themes and imagery contained in his lyrics.
Bob Dylan and The Band play the first of two nights at Madison Square Garden, New York City.
Bob Dylan and The Band's album Planet Waves enters the UK albums chart, where it will peak at No7 during an eight-week run.
The live double album Before The Flood by Bob Dylan and The Band enters the Billboard US albums chart, where it will peak ay No3 during a ten-week stay.
Beat poet Allen Ginsberg is filmed reciting poetry for a scene in the Bob Dylan movie Renaldo & Clara at the Seacrest Motel, North Dakota.
The Rolling Thunder Revue, a traveling cavalcade headed by Bob Dylan and featuring an ever-changing cast of his long-time musical comrades, continues its second leg at the L.S.U. Assembly Center, Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
The Rolling Thunder Revue, a traveling cavalcade headed by Bob Dylan and featuring an ever-changing cast of his long-time musical comrades, continues its second leg at Hofheinz Pavilion, Houston, Texas.
The Rolling Thunder Revue, a traveling cavalcade headed by Bob Dylan and featuring an ever-changing cast of his long-time musical comrades, continues its second leg at the Gatesville State School For Boys, Gatesville, Texas, USA.
Bob Dylan plays the second of two nights at The Chicago Stadium, Chicago, Illinois.
Bob Dylan begins his Slow Train Coming tour at the Warfield Theatre, San Francisco. Audiences on this tour boo because his conversion to Born Again Christianity has affected his music.
On his Slow Train Coming Tour, Bob Dylan plays the ninth of fourteen nights at the Warfield Theatre, San Francisco, California, USA.
Bob Dylan is in United Western Studio, Los Angeles, California, USA, working on songs including Is It Worth It? and Yes Sir No Sir for his album Shot Of Love.On the Shot Of Love tour Bob Dylan plays at the Marjorie Merriweather Post Pavilion, Columbia, Maryland, USA.
Bob Dylan plays at Mungersdorfer Stadion, Cologne, West Germany. The tour is a double-header with Carlos Santana.
Bob Dylan spends the second of four days participating in a Ringo Starr recording session at Three Alarm Studio, Memphis, Tennessee, USA.
On his Never-Ending Tour schedule, Bob Dylan plays concert No749, the first of two nights at The Orpheum Theatre, Boston, Massachusetts.
Bob Dylan is nominated for Nobel Prize for Literature by professor Gordon Ball of the Virginia Military Institute. He doesn't win.
Bob Dylan plays the second of two nights at the Festival Hall, Osaka, Japan. In the schedule of his Never-ending Tour, this is concert No850.
Bob Dylan compilation album The Best Of Bob Dylan enters the UK albums chart where it will peak at No6 during an eighteen-week run.
Bob Dylan wins a Best Song Oscar for Things Have Changed which appears in the soundtrack of the movie Wonder Boys.
The film North Country, starring Charlize Theron, is released in Norway, Europe. The movie features several Bob Dylan songs, including the newly-recorded Tell 'Ol Bill.A Bob Dylan tribute concert, Million Dollar
Bash, takes place in the Now Lounge, Toronto, Canada. Artists
appearing include Robert & The Zimmermans, Arthur Renwick, Steve Puklver and Adam The Dylan Imitator.
On their 
Ralph McTell releases a six-track mini-album, Don't Think Twice It's Alright - A Tribute To Bob Dylan On His 70th Birthday.
Miley Cyrus premieres a new video in which she interprets the Bob Dylan song You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go. The song appears on the compilation album "Chimes of Freedom: Songs of Bob Dylan Honoring 50 Years of Amnesty International."
Zayn Malik of boyband One Direction buys a second-hand black Bentley Continental GT at a cost of £32,000, from a dealership in Hertfordshire, UK.
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