Bob Dylan stole the arrangement for "House of the Risin' Sun" from good friend and contemporary, Dave Van Ronk.

We are looking back at one of Bob Dylan's Theme Time Radio sessions from 2006 and revisiting his favourite songs about drinking.

Yet one caveat of The 1974 Live Recordings is the fact that Dylan and The Band played a lot of the same songs each night. Billed as a celebration of the Bob songbook, the nightly set included such essentials as “Ballad Of A Thin Man,” “All Along The Watchtower,” “Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door” and Planet Waves’ most enduring song, “Forever Young.”

Tour ’74 was Dylan’s first-ever arena tour—a rock commonplace by 1974 that had not even been imaginable in 1966. Tour ’74 was rapturously received, garnering wall-to-wall press coverage; Rolling Stone named it Event of the Year for 1974 (RS 178) and ran a very funny series of Polaroid shots of culture heroes (Warren Beatty,

Bob Dylan has performed one of his most iconic songs for the first time in six years - and fans were stunned by the very different version he is now playing