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19 Aug 2024: Thanks to André Wilbers for information about Reagan, a biopic starring Dennis Quaid released in cinemas on 30 Aug 2024. It includes an exclusive recording by Bob, Cole Porter's Don't Fence Me In. As far as I know there is no film soundtrack album.

19 Aug 2024: "Mojo" magazine (UK), Oct 2024, includes Forever Young: The Best Of 1974, a cover CD with two tracks by Bob Dylan and The Band from The 1974 Live Recordings, The Times They Are A-Changin' by Bob solo from The Forum, Los Angeles, CA, 14 Feb 1974 (track 2) and Something There Is About You by Bob and The Band from Madison Square Gardens, New York, 30 Jan 1974 (track 12). This issue includes an eight page article about the new 1974 release. On the rear of the magazine is an advert for the Bob Dylan Center, Tulsa, OK. Inside the front is an advert for the Rough and Rowdy Ways UK tour, Nov 2024.

19 Aug 2024: The 1974 Live Recordings, a 27CD boxed set by Bob Dylan and The Band, will be released worldwide on 20 Sep 2024. This includes all the tracks previously released on the 2LP set Before The Flood in 1974 as well as Highway 61 Revisited, recorded live with The Band at Madison Square Garden, New York, 31 Jan 1974 (evening show), which appears on the Capitol/EMI boxed set The Band: A Musical History, see 2005. A 3LP Highlights Box Set will be released by Third Man Records featuring songs from The 1974 tour not included on Before The Flood.

2 Apr 2024: A copy of the Searching For A Gem web-site is now situated here: SFAG - Searching For A Gem | The FM Club. This copy is not being updated, so until the new web-site is up and running it is no longer possible to submit contributions.

"By popular demand", the latest Bob Dylan Rarity News notified to me. If you have any news not shown that will interest site visitors, please contact me here. Please make sure the subject of your message includes the word "Dylan"- this will ensure it's not put in the trash by the site's Spam filter. This is absolutely vital - incoming Spam can be as much as 13,300 messages per day, and I'm sure some of your valuable messages have been missed! Please retry if your message was rejected or if you haven't received a reply.

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Contacting Bob Dylan

This is a fan site with no connection to Bob - that means you can't contact him through me! I used to have a postal address for Bob's New York business office that I thought was correct, but I have since been informed by someone who wrote to that address that their mail was returned. I have never had an email address. I can only suggest you contact Bob's publisher Simon & Schuster or use the feedback page at www.bobdylan.com. I also have no means of helping anyone who wants to meet Bob Dylan or obtain his autograph!

For much wider news coverage of interest to Bob Dylan fans, see Karl Erik's amazing "Expecting Rain" site . It's always up-to-date thanks to his astounding dedication!

News and Updates are now two separate pages - for Updates (including all site structure changes), see here.

Revised: 19 August, 2024

Older News

Old news items are kept on here until the rarities referred to actually surface, or until it becomes clear that they're not going to!

30 Jul 2022: The previous Web Counter has now been discontinued by the provider. There have been around 12 million visits since mid-1998. New statistics for Searching For A Gem from end Jun 2022 are here.

14 Jan 2022: Thanks to Geoff Lambourn for news that James Mangold has been chosen to direct a new film for Searchlight Pictures provisionally called "Going Electric" about Bob's adoption of electric music in 1965, starring Timothée Chalamet as Bob. More details will be added when available.

18 Oct 2020: The Yahoo! web-site is reporting that George Clooney will direct a film version of John Grisham's baseball novel "Calico Joe". The exciting news for Dylan fans is that Bob is scheduled to write the soundtrack. Bob is known to be a huge baseball fan and has recorded Catfish (a Desire out-take released in 1991 on The Bootleg Series Vols. 1-3) and Take Me Out To The Ball Game from his Theme Time Radio Hour With Bob Dylan: Baseball in 2006. Thanks to Jürgen Wasser for information that John Grisham's book has been translated into German with the title "Home Run", and is also available in French and Italian. More information about the film and the soundtrack will be added when available.

24 Nov 2015: Please note, in order to reduce the huge number of submissions, only submit scans of new items. If you have variant copies of items already listed on the site, please submit only a text description of your item that can be pasted into the web page. That will make the additions significantly easier to handle, and avoid web pages becoming too long. This is a new permanent policy for the site. Thank you for your co-operation.

26 Nov 2013: So long, eBay! This web-site has an ongoing huge backlog of additions, all with high quality artwork, and several important new Dylan releases to add between now and Christmas. In view of the poor quality of description and illustration of items from eBay and other online auction sites, together with the high probability that items are counterfeit, no more items from such sites will be considered for inclusion here. I've also been told that featuring eBay items on this web-site has led to higher prices. Thanks to those who have submitted eBay links in the past, but please don't do so in future under any circumstances.

As an example, look at the scan by Manuel García Jara and a photo of the same single from an online auction site. The digital photo is slanted (and shows the wrong side of the sleeve)!

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