Cash. Dylan rejected requests to perform at the Woodstock Festival and instead topped the bill at the Isle of Wight rock festival on 31 August.
backed by The Band, embarked on his first tour in eight years, playing 39 shows in 21 American cities coast-to-coast. A live album documenting this tour, Before The Flood , was released in June. In September 1974, Dylan began work on one of his most significant albums, Blood On The Tracks. 1975 | Blood On The Tracks was released in January; the album would eventually top the American charts. From autumn 1975 until spring 1976, Dylan toured North America with the Rolling Thunder Revue, which included a changing entourage of artists such as the poet Allen Ginsberg and singers Joni Mitchell and Joan Baez. Footage of the tour was used in the four-hour film Renaldo and Clara , directed by Dylan, which was released in 1978. 1976 | January 1976 saw the release of Desire , one of Dylan’s bestselling records of all time, which topped the charts for over a month in America. In November, Dylan appeared in The Band’s farewell concert, which was filmed by Martin Scorsese and released as the film The Last Waltz in 1978. 1978 | Dylan embarked on an extensive tour of New Zealand, Australia, Europe, America and Japan. 1979 | In the late 1970s, Dylan became deeply interested in developing a more spiritually inspired music based on his
evolving studies of the Bible. Two albums rooted in gospel music – Slow Train Coming and Saved – were released in 1979 and 1980.
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1970 | In early 1970, Dylan left Woodstock and moved to Greenwich Village. That June he received an honorary doctorate of music from Princeton University, New Jersey. Dylan’s collection of experimental writings from 1966, Tarantula , was finally published in November 1970. 1971 | George Harrison invited Dylan to appear in a benefit concert for Bangladesh in August 1971 at Madison Square Garden, New York City. 1972 | In November 1972, Dylan contributed to the soundtrack of the film Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (1973), directed by Sam Peckinpah. The soundtrack included ‘Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door’, which has subsequently been covered by over 100 recording artists. Dylan made his acting debut in the film as a minor member of Billy’s gang. 1973 | A collection of Dylan’s lyrics and poetry, Writings And Drawings , was published in July 1973.
1982 | Dylan was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in March 1982.
1985 | In July 1985, Dylan contributed vocals for the all-star single ‘We are the World’, in aid of African famine relief. On 13 July he appeared, backed by Keith Richards and Ron Wood, at the Live Aid concert at the JFK Stadium in Philadelphia. His third book, Lyrics: 1962–1985 , was published and Biograph , a five-disc retrospective collection, was released. 1986–1987 | During 1986 and 1987 Dylan toured, backed by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers; in 1987 he also toured with backing from the Grateful Dead, which led to the album Dylan & The Dead (1989). Dylan starred in the movie Hearts of Fire (1987), directed by Richard Marquand. 1988 | In January 1988, Dylan entered into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, with an induction speech by Bruce Springsteen. In spring, Dylan joined Roy Orbison, Jeff Lynne, Tom Petty and George Harrison to form the super-group The Traveling Wilburys; they released two
1974 | In January 1974 Dylan, again
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