Bob Dylan is an American singer-songwriter, author and visual artist. Often regarded as one of the greatest songwriters of all time, Dylan has been a major figure in popular culture for more than 50 years.

The Basement Tapes is a studio album by Bob Dylan and The Band, released in 1975 by Columbia Records. Most of the album was actually recorded eight years earlier, in the basement of a house shared by the musicians. As Bob Dylan recovered from a near-fatal motorcycle accident during 1967, he called on The Band to help him experiment with themes of traditional folk music and Americana; these explorations, and their possible links with the earlier Anthology of American Folk Music, are explored in Invisible Republic by author Greil Marcus. The sessions laid the foundation both for the approach of Dylan's 1967 album John Wesley Harding, and for the Band finding their own voice on 1968's Music From Big Pink. The Dylan LP, a critically-acclaimed departure from the surrealist rock and roll he had recently pioneered on his milestone trio of albums from 1965 and 1966, was as much of a shock to his fans as were those records to his earlier folk audience. Both it and Music From Big Pink would greatly influence the turn, by many contemporary popular musicians, away from the psychedelic music that reached its height in 1967, toward an embrace of country-influenced folk styles. Material from the sessions had been heavily bootlegged since 1968, with the most famous being 1969's Great White Wonder. It wasn't until Dylan's comeback with Blood on the Tracks in 1975 that any of it was officially released, and The Basement Tapes was welcomed with high praise from fans and critics. Compiled by Robbie Robertson, the album features new songs and many overdubs made by The Band long after the original sessions. More complete and authentic documents of the 1967 tapes have since surfaced and are traded by fans, while the later Band tracks have appeared as bonus tracks on CD reissues of their proper albums. The Basement Tapes peaked at #7 in 1975 on Billboard's (North America) Pop Albums chart and reached #8 in the UK. In 2003, the album was ranked number 291 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.

Bob Dylan is an American singer-songwriter, author, poet, and visual artist who has been a major figure in popular culture for more than fifty years.

巴布狄伦曾经说，「我从来没有想过要当个先知或救星。」也许他不是个先知，但依然获得了举世的推崇，七座葛莱美奖、终身成就奖、还有「摇滚名人殿堂」，只不过是他毕生荣耀的冰山一角。他是当代美国民歌的宗师，堪称活生生的传奇。六十五岁的狄伦，依然活跃如昔，除了密集巡回，还出版自传，大导演马丁史柯西斯并且拍摄了他的传记影片。2006年八月底，他发表五年来首张全新创作的《摩登时代》，立即登上排行冠军宝座。 成名四十五年来，狄伦曾在60年代先後两度改变作品的风格，而这张专辑则带来第三度的改变。「摩登时代」有如一块未经雕琢的璞玉，充满粗犷的魅力，节奏与拍子也不断的变化，洋溢着几乎有如现场、很直接的感觉，歌曲有的幽默、有的神秘，有的纤柔、有的狂野。他以「杰克佛洛斯特Jack Frost」的化名，亲自担任制作，从开场第一首歌曲＜Thunder on the Mountain＞，他就毫不避讳的唱出自己对新生代创作女歌手艾莉西亚凯斯"Alicic Keys"的喜爱，在这首火热、刺耳、狂放不羁的蓝调旋律中，老先生显得烦躁不安、却又充满了激动的狂喜。在一群顶尖乐手的陪衬下，他采用流行音乐的传统，对摩登的世界提出大胆的挑衅。除了蓝调之外，透过＜Spirit on the Water＞，他也唱出爱情的神圣。在＜When the Deal Goes Down＞里面，他则刻意的模仿已故歌手平克劳斯贝那种唱腔，加上「柯波帝：冷血告白」获奥斯卡最佳导演提名的Bennett Miller使用八厘米形式拍摄由当红好莱坞女星史嘉蕾乔韩森"Scarlett Johansson"主演该曲短篇影片，造成轰动。 而＜Rollin‘ and Tumblin‘＞和＜Someday Baby＞又让人联想起穆帝华特斯。但可别以为他是在抄袭，他只是生动的采用了蓝调、摇滚、福音、以及R&B等各种不同的音乐型态，让歌曲得到最好的表现。 《摩登时代》阐述着各种情感，＜When the Deal Goes Down＞和＜Beyond the Horizon＞说的是爱情，＜The Levee‘s Gonna Break＞和＜Ain‘t Talkin’＞探讨的是死亡，而＜Workingman‘s Blues #2＞则唱出这个世界令人沮丧的现况，甚至沿着传统一路走来，在黑暗的同时，也隐约透露着一线希望的曙光，就好像卓别林那部不朽的经典，也就难怪他会用「摩登时代」来当作专辑的标题了。老而弥坚的巴布狄伦，总是不断的带给世人各种惊奇，这张专辑再度证明了这一点。

Bridge Over Troubled Water is the fifth and final studio album by Simon & Garfunkel. Released on January 26, 1970 on both Quadraphonic and Stereo formats, it reached No. 1 on Billboard Music Charts pop albums list. It won a Grammy Award for Album of the Year, as well as for Best Engineered Recording, while its title track won the Grammy Award for Record of the Year and Song of the Year in the Grammy Awards of 1971. It has since sold over 25 million copies worldwide.