Some studios are fortunately realising that they can maximise sales of individual DVD releases by making them region-free instead of having to manufacture multiple region-specific copies- click on the picture on the right to see the text.

R-0437-2 Desolation Row - 4:03 edit of the standard album version from Highway 61 Revisited

Although Bob did not appear at the 1970 Isle Of Wight Festival, Desolation Row is included both in the film (playing over the end credits) and on the soundtrack album. For the explanation, see the comments on the soundtrack album in 1995.

This film is now out of print on VHS cassette. For Murray Lerner's earlier "Festival!" film, see VHS & DVD 1960s.

Thanks to Jack from Canada for scans of the 1997 US release - the DVD is double-sided with the film split over both sides.

Current Sony Music US DVD

UK VHS release (now deleted)

Current Castle UK DVD

SMV LVD-49335 (USA) - rear scan by Jack from Canada

R-0300 Maggie's Farm - recorded live with the Paul Butterfield Blues Band at the Newport Folk Festival, Newport, RI, 25 Jul 1965, now released on The Bootleg Series Vol. 7: No Direction Home, Sep 2005

Thanks for Fred Muller for confirming the material is indeed from Murray Lerner's 1967 "Festival!" movie (see VHS & DVD 1960s) including scenes of Bob at the soundcheck for Maggie's Farm and performing it live at the festival.

The three electric performances from that day, R-0300-302, were released on a 1991 Italian CD Bob Dylan 1 accompanying an issue of Il Dizionario del Rock (The Dictionary of Rock) - a series of magazines in the early 1990s, see Questionable Releases.

Fred Muller adds: "There are some audio recordings played over stills and montages (e.g. Bob announcing the title of his first LP!), black-and-white film of him introducing "That's Alright Ma" with a "ho-ho-ho"* and more monochrome film (sources not given on-screen), plus getting set up at Newport in '65 (polka-dot shirt) and then film of him doing some of "Maggie's Farm", identified as coming from this show, but he's now wearing a leather jacket and it's dark. Intercut with studio interview clips with the likes of Bono (someone always manages to find him!), Springsteen, Chrissie Hynde, the Newport promoter etc. echo yes, excerpts from the Dec 65 San Francisco interview too (e.g. "I'm just a song and dance man".) There's also some footage from '86 with Tom Petty doing "Like a Rolling Stone" (this is from the Gaylene Preston film, shot in Sydney**) and footage from the 1992 30th anniversary bash at Madison Square Gardens with "Duck" Dunn, Steve Cropper, McGuinn, Clapton, etc. etc. on stage.***"

Fred subsequently clarified that Bob was wearing the polka dot shirt in the afternoon and the leather jacket at night. "The stills and some film seem to have been taken around 2pm when he did a three-song rehearsal, and the remainder of the Time-Life footage was taken at his appearance proper, around 10pm."

* From Don't Look Back (see VHS & DVD 1960s)

**Hard to Handle (see VHS & DVD 1980s)

*** 30th Anniversary Concert Celebration (see VHS & DVD 1990s Part 1)

Jack from Canada reports the episode in detail as including excerpts from:

1. On The Road Again - audio from Bringing It All Back Home

2. It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding) (live) - audio and film footage from Don't Look Back (see VHS & DVD 1960s)

3. Talkin' New York - audio from Bob Dylan

4. The Times They Are A-Changin' (live) - audio and film footage from Don't Look Back (see VHS & DVD 1960s)

5. Maggie's Farm (live) (live) - audio and film footage from Festival! (see VHS & DVD 1960s)

6. Like A Rolling Stone - audio from Highway 61 Revisited

7. Like A Rolling Stone (live) - audio and film footage from Hard To Handle (see VHS & DVD 1980s)

8. My Back Pages (live) - audio and film footage from The 30th Anniversary Concert Celebration (see VHS & DVD 1990s Part 1)

As well as other footage from Don't Look Back and Festival! it also includes footage from Pat Garrett & Billy The Kid (see VHS & DVD 1970s) and the San Francisco Press Conference, 3 Dec 1965, and the Los Angeles Press Conference, 16 Dec 1965 (see Interviews With Bob).

Thanks to Freddy Ordoñez Araque for finding the US DVD boxed set and to jack from Canada for the scans.

There was also a 1995 PBS TV series called The History Of Rock 'N' Roll where the second VHS cassette has two episodes: Part 3: "Shakespeare's In The Alley"/Part 4: "Respect". Information from Paul Pearson: "This WGBH series surveys the history of rock and roll, from Little Richard to rap. "Shakespeare's in the Alley" explains the impact of Bob Dylan, the Beatles and "folk rock " on rock and roll. Produced, directed and written by Vicky Bippart and Daniel McCabe. "Respect" describes how black gospel music was transformed by Motown, Stax Records, Aretha Franklin and others into a sound for all Americans - until the death of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Produced, directed and written by David Espar." Scans of this VHS cassette required!

R-0233-2 Love Minus Zero/No Limit - additional track (recorded 17 Nov 1994)

Although it wasn't in the MTV broadcast on 14 Dec 1994, I Want You (from the first night - 17 Nov 1994) was included in 1995 PBS broadcasts of the MTV Unplugged programme in the USA in 1995 - it's not on any version of the CD album or video. Although I was informed that I Want You was on the now-deleted laserdisc release of the show, which also contains R-0233, I'm now assured by Gil Lamont and Jean-Pierre Mercier that it isn't! (As the tracklists of the laserdiscs shown confirm.)

The Japanese laserdisc came with a black, red and white obi (right) - thanks to Hans Seegers for the information and scans.

Sony Music Video SRLM 900 laserdisc (Japan) - rear scan by Hans Seegers

Sony Music Video SRLM 900 laserdisc (Japan) - Side 1 scan by Hans Seegers

Columbia Music Video MLV 50113 laserdisc (USA) - rear scan by Hans Seegers

Columbia Music Video MLV 50113 laserdisc (USA) - Side 1 scan by Hans Seegers

The UK release is region-free and comes with minimal packaging and no extras of any kind. The omission of I Want You (see above) is especially disappointing for Dylan fans.

Thanks to Michael Smith for reminding me that this release has been remixed in 5.1 surround sound.

Columbia Music Video COL 202435 9 (UK) - DVD

Columbia Music Video CDV 58516 (USA) - insert scan by Gil Lamont

Columbia Music Video CDV 58516 (USA) - insert scan by Gil Lamont (reverse)

Columbia/Legacy C2K 86882 (USA) - insert scan by Gil Lamont

Thanks to Jack from Canada for information and scans.

Columbia 88697-12452- 2 (Canada) - CD scan by Jack

R-0563-2 A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall - excerpt from Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Quest TV broadcast,  CBC TV Studio, Toronto, Canada, 1 Feb1964 (also two excerpts from The Times They Are A-Changin')

Sam C. Visser says: "On the Beatles Anthology 8 disc laserdisc set are 3 fragments of the CBC Quest show. It occurs on disc 4 chapter 2 where the Beatles talk about meeting Dylan in America. The segment starts with about a 5 second clip of The Times They Are A-Changin', followed a few minutes later with about 20 seconds of A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall and then at the end of the segment a further 10 seconds of The Times They Are A-Changin'." Larry Crum adds that the clip of A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall is part of the second verse.

This set was re-released on DVD in the UK on 31 Mar 2003 with a bonus DVD of previously unshown footage, including the three then remaining Beatles recording songs at George Harrison's home, Friar Park. There is no Bob-related footage in the bonus DVD. The 5DVD set is Region 0, so can be played worldwide.

Apple 4 92969 9 (UK) 2003 5DVD set - front of box (my copy)

Apple 4 92969 9 (UK) 2003 5DVD set - insert for DVD2 with Chapter 2 of Episode 4 "Meeting Bob Dylan"

For more information, see Jan Hoiberg's Band site

Larry Crum tells me the DVD was released in the USA and Canada in Nov 2001, but I can't find details anywhere. Thanks to Manfred Endtner for information and scan of a 2002 Brazilian DVD - Tape World COD DVD 7737. Manfred says: "The DVD menu has a Dylan section (Number 7) - members of The Band and George Harrison are talking about Bob with video-snippets from different locations: Don't Think Twice (1965, black/white), Tell Me Momma (1966, with The Band), Interview (?, black/white), Baby Let Me Follow You Down (1966, with The Band). Total approx. 4 mins long."

The episode with Dylan content is #2 (or #3 depending upon which version of the video set you have - Episode 2 "Be My Baby" is missing from some sets, but has no Dylan content), is subtitled in the UK "So You Want to Be a Rock 'n Roll Star" (the equivalent German volume is subtitled "A Hard Day's Night - die Rock-Poeten"). This episode is included in Vol. 1 of the 1998 release (shown on left).

Thanks to Larry Crum and Fred Muller for information about this set.

This excerpt first appeared in a 1979 documentary Heroes Of Rock And Roll (see VHS & DVD 1970s), the 1987 video - The Fabulous 60s Vol. 7 (see VHS & DVD 1980s), and also appears in the 1994 Robbie Robertson documentaries Going Home, Chronicle and A Retrospective - From The Band To The Rock 'N' Roll Hall Of Fame (for all three see above), and the 2003 Ed Sullivan Show set "Rock 'N' Roll Forever" + Rock 'N' Roll Revolution" (see VHS & DVD 2000s Part 2.

Thanks to Freddy Ordoñez Araque for information about this release.

Thanks to Freddy Ordoñez Araque for information about this release.

This series comes on a double-sided DVD or two VHS tapes. The climactic end of the first half also includes footage of Like A Rolling Stone from the Newport Folk Festival, 1965, and the studio version of the song.

For the audio soundtrack to this series, see 1999.

Thanks to Thomas Michalzik for all the following information about the German DVD release of The '60s - this Region 2 DVD was released in Germany by e-m-s with German liner notes. It has dubbed German audio in Dolby Digital 5.1, English audio in Dolby Digital 2.0, plus optional German sub-titles for the English version. As far as I know it has not been released in the UK, but UK residents could get it online from somewhere like amazon.de .

Extras in the German edition include additional information on culture, politics, sports, music, and science of the '60s, bio- and filmographies of the main actors, and trailers.

Additionally there was a bonus DVD from a series 100 Jahre - Die großen Bilder des 20. Jahrhunderts [100 Years - The Great Pictures of the 20^th Century], Chapter 1960-69, 50 mins. long; including documentary footage of historic highlights from that era.

Thanks also to Thomas for photos of the German DVD release.

This version of Dignity is included in episode 100. For the soundtrack album including this song, see 1998.

This version is also included on the 2000 European/Japanese Columbia compilations The Best Of Bob Dylan Vol. 2, see 2000.

R-0326-2 Crossroads (Robert Johnson/Eric Clapton) - with Eric Clapton and his band

Bob is pictured on the cover on the right underneath Eric Clapton's left hand.

Thanks to Larry Crum for the US DVD catalogue number and to Jack from Canada and Artur Jarosinski for the scans.

The film also includes the instrumental Bunkhouse Theme from Pat Garrett & Billy The Kid, which is not on the soundtrack album. Thanks to Hans Seegers for information and to Jack from Canada for scans of the Canadian release.

Thanks to Freddy Ordoñez Araque and Jack from Canada for information.

Bob appears with a band including T-Bone Burnett, with Dharma (Jenna Elfman) playing drums. Season 3 of the series has not yet appeared officially on DVD. (It is available on DVD as an unauthorised release from a company based in the Philippines, but I suspect the episodes have been illegally copied from VHS recordings.)

Thanks to Jack from Canada for reminding me of this show and to Paul S. Levine for news of the 20th Century Fox US Season 1 DVD release.