In 1975, he released Blood on the Tracks, which many saw as a return to form. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Dylan explored country music and rural themes in John Wesley Harding (1967), Nashville Skyline (1969), and New Morning (1970). These recordings were released as the collaborative album The Basement Tapes in 1975. During this period, he recorded a large body of songs with members of the Band, who had previously backed him on tour. In July 1966, Dylan withdrew from touring after a motorcycle accident. Commenting on the six-minute single ' Like a Rolling Stone' (1965), Rolling Stone wrote: 'No other pop song has so thoroughly challenged and transformed the commercial laws and artistic conventions of its time, for all time.' In 19, Dylan drew controversy when he adopted electrically amplified rock instrumentation, and in the space of 15 months recorded three of the most important and influential rock albums of the 1960s: Bringing It All Back Home (1965), Highway 61 Revisited (1965) and Blonde on Blonde (1966). He went on to release the politically charged The Times They Are a-Changin' and the more lyrically abstract and introspective Another Side of Bob Dylan in 1964. For many of these songs, he adapted the tunes and phraseology of older folk songs. The album features 'Blowin' in the Wind' and the thematically complex ' A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall'. ДЇollowing his self-titled debut album in 1962, which mainly comprised traditional folk songs, Dylan made his breakthrough as a songwriter with the release of The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan the following year. His lyrics during this period incorporated a range of political, social, philosophical, and literary influences, defying pop music conventions and appealing to the burgeoning counterculture. Much of his most celebrated work dates from the 1960s, when songs such as ' Blowin' in the Wind' (1963) and ' The Times They Are a-Changin' ' (1964) became anthems for the civil rights and anti-war movements. Often regarded as one of the greatest songwriters of all time, Dylan has been a major figure in popular culture during a career spanning nearly 60 years. According to Universal, Dylan's songs have already been recorded by other artists more than 6,000 times, including such famous versions as Jimi Hendrix's cover of ' All Along the Watchtower' and Guns N' Roses' version of ' Knockin' on Heaven's Door.Bob Dylan (born Robert Allen Zimmerman May 24, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter, author and visual artist. Songwriting rights - that is, ownership of a song's melody and lyrics - are figured and paid out separately from recording rights. The company will collect money any time another musician covers any of those songs, and it will earn revenue for allowing the songs to be used in commercials and movies as well as when the songs are streamed, sold commercially on such formats as CDs, or broadcast. (Universal has not disclosed the purchase price.)ДЇor Universal Music Publishing Group, which is owned by the French media giant Vivendi, there's a lot of appeal in owning Dylan's songwriting rights. The deal with Dylan may be the highest price ever paid for a musician or group's songwriting rights. The agreement was first reported by The New York Times, which said it is worth more than $300 million. Nearly 60 years after writing such counterculture classics as 'Blowin' in the Wind' and 'Like a Rolling Stone,' Bob Dylan has sold his entire songwriting catalog - more than 600 songs - to Universal Music Publishing Group in a deal announced Monday morning by Universal. Singer-songwriter Bob Dylan in 1965, when he was at the epicenter of the counterculture.

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