# Bob Dylan puts out a new song after 8 years

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**Created:** [March 27, 2020, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bob-dylan-puts-out-a-new-song-after-8-years/850427 "2020-03-27T15:12:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![Bijou\_Drains](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bijou_drains/32/2814_2.png) [@Bijou\_Drains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bijou_Drains)\
**Post date:** [March 27, 2020, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bob-dylan-puts-out-a-new-song-after-8-years/850427/1 "2020-03-27T15:12:28Z")

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And it’s about JFK assassination.

> **[Bob Dylan Releases 17-Minute Song About JFK Assassination](https://variety.com/2020/music/news/bob-dylan-releases-17-minute-song-jfk-kennedy-assassination-murder-most-foul-1203546713/)**
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> For years, Bob Dylan fans have spoken in a sort of hushed awe about the longest song he ever released, “Highlands,” an album side-length 1997 track that ran 16 minutes and 31 seconds. N…

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**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\
**Post date:** [March 27, 2020, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bob-dylan-puts-out-a-new-song-after-8-years/850427/2 "2020-03-27T15:18:23Z")

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I honestly didn’t even realize that he was still alive.

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**Author:** ![Bijou\_Drains](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bijou_drains/32/2814_2.png) [@Bijou\_Drains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bijou_Drains)\
**Post date:** [March 27, 2020, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bob-dylan-puts-out-a-new-song-after-8-years/850427/3 "2020-03-27T15:25:12Z")

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He’s 78 and still tours He was going to tour Japan this year. He still has concerts listed for June in the US.

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**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\
**Post date:** [March 27, 2020, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bob-dylan-puts-out-a-new-song-after-8-years/850427/4 "2020-03-27T15:34:19Z")

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> [@Chronos](#):
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> I honestly didn’t even realize that he was still alive.

Really? He just won a Nobel Prize a few years ago. If he died in the interim, you’d expect there to be a bit of a hullabaloo about it. I mean, I don’t listen to Dylan much, but his death will be big news when it comes.

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**Post date:** [March 27, 2020, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bob-dylan-puts-out-a-new-song-after-8-years/850427/5 "2020-03-27T15:51:33Z")

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He won Nobel for literature in 2016. Here is his speech for the award. [Bob Dylan – Nobel Lecture - NobelPrize.org](https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/2016/dylan/lecture/)

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**Post date:** [April 14, 2020, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bob-dylan-puts-out-a-new-song-after-8-years/850427/6 "2020-04-14T00:07:43Z")

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and the song is his first #1 song ever, not counting songs he wrote for others.

[Bob Dylan Has His First No. 1 Hit On The Billboard Charts – No, Really – Deadline](https://deadline.com/2020/04/bob-dylan-has-his-first-no-1-hit-on-the-billboard-charts-no-really-1202905518/)