
This is a page of VHS and DVD items formerly included in the main list which were or are being sold legally at the time in their own countries, but which have been challenged by contributors. I have therefore moved them here to this page. I've also added all the unauthorised DVD documentaries about Bob that have appeared in droves in the 2000s. I have only used an R- number where the performance on the questionable item is officially released elsewhere, performances exclusive to these questionable items now have their own Q- numbers. For Questionable audio releases, see here.
Revised 08 April, 2008.
George Harrison & Friends - "The Concert For Bangladesh" - Apple feature
film, Mar 1972, DVD release: Cine Arts DVD DC 034 (Brazil), 2002:
These are unauthorised DVDs made from tape sources. For the original Apple album release and subsequent CD releases, see
1972.
For the remastered CD version with a bonus track, see
2005. For the original VHS release, see
VHS & DVD 1970s.
For the expanded 2DVD edition released in the USA and UK on 24 Oct 2005, which
includes new Dylan material, see VHS &
DVD 2000s Part 3.
![]() Cine Art DVD DC 034 (Brazil) (my copy) |
All songs recorded live with George Harrison, Leon Russell and Ringo
Starr, Madison Square Garden, New York, 1 Aug 1971 (evening show). If Not For You (R-0484)- a short clip of Bob and George Harrison performing this song early in the film, not included on the soundtrack album A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall (R-0075) It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A
Train To Cry (R-0076) Blowin' In The Wind (R-0077) Just Like A Woman (R-0079) Thanks to Alexandre Froemming for the Brazilian DVD shown on the left. This is a Region 0 release, almost certainly unauthorised by Paramount. |
"Tour Europeo - Arena Di Verona" -
live performance broadcast by Italian TV, Retequattro, June 1984, Italian
commercial video (studio?) (catalogue number?), Jun 1989:
This video was legal in Italy at the time of
release; however Larry Crum informs me it is almost certainly unauthorised.
Andrea Brillo from Italy informs me he has this material on another 1989 Italian
commercial video called just Bob Dylan, AVOFILM cod. 3174, but it
is just 30 minutes in length and does not include Q-0029. Scans of the Tour
Europeo - Arena Di Verona
video required! Information from Glen Dundas.
Bob Dylan with Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers - HBO
special TV broadcast (USA), 1986; DVD
releases: "Heartbreakers
Live In Australia", Glass Music COD.DVD 2037 (Brazil), 2002/Best Album 1***
S1003 (South Korea), 2006; "Hard To
Handle", DVD Total D2333 (Brazil), 2003:
These Brazilian DVDs are definitely unauthorised, so have been moved here from VHS & DVD 1980s.
![]() Glass Music COD.DVD 2037 (Brazil) - insert scan from Keith Venturoni |
HBO special from the 1986 Australian tour with Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers, recorded Sydney, Australia, 24 & 25 Feb 1986, broadcast 20 Jun 1986, also released on VHS and on laserdisc. For original VHS and laserdisc releases of this concert see VHS & DVD 1980s. In The Garden - 24 Feb 1986 (R-0172) Just Like A Woman - 24 Feb 1986 (R-0173) Like A Rolling Stone - 25 Feb 1986 (R-0174) It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding) - 25 Feb 1986 (R-0175) Girl Of The North Country - 24 Feb 1986 (R-0176) Lenny Bruce - 25 Feb 1986 (R-0177) When The Night Comes Falling From The Sky - 24 Feb 1986 (R-0178) Ballad Of A Thin Man - 24 Feb 1986 (R-0179) I'll Remember You - 24 Feb 1986 (R-0180) Knockin' On Heaven's Door - 25 Feb 1986 (R-0181) The Glass Music release is a Region 0 NTSC DVD, which can be played in any DVD player worldwide that can convert NTSC signals. The DVD Total release is also NTSC, Regions 1 & 6 only. Heartbreakers Live In Australia is the Hard To Handle video on DVD with Dolby Digital 5.1 sound. As far as I know this is its first appearance on DVD, but its legality anywhere else in the world is questionable. The artwork is from the 1984 Real Live album! Thanks to Dag Braathen for notifying me of this item on eBay and to Keith Venturoni for the scan. Thanks to Alexandre Froemming from Brazil for information about a different Brazilian DVD release which came with a magazine called "DVD Total", now using the Hard To Handle title and artwork. Thanks to Paul Ryan for informing me that amazon.com have on sale a version of this DVD just called Live - Australia from Phantom Sound & Vision (no picture available) which is listed as Region 1 only. This is also apparently sourced from Brazil. I find the fact that they're selling it surprising, as I'm sure that in the USA it is regarded as pirated. Thanks also to Ian Woodward for information that a Brazilian-sourced DVD of Hard To Handle is being sold in Japan - it could be the "DVD Total" version shown here. Thanks also to Alexandre for copies of these two Brazilian DVDs! Thanks to Jean-Pol Hiernaux for scans of a 2003 South Korean DVD release being sold on amazon.com, the studio is apparently "Best Album 1 ****". As there is some Portuguese text on the packaging as well as Korean, it's possible the DVD is sourced from the Brazilian release also called Heartbreakers Live In Australia. |
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Mickey Jones - "World Tour 1966: The Home Movies" - privately released DVD and VHS releases (USA), 1 Oct 2002/StudioWorks 10732-7 (USA), 5 Feb 2004:
The Rolling Stones - "Just For The Record (Unauthorized): Five Decades" - 5 DVD boxed set, Passport Internation DVD 5510 (USA), 18 Mar 2003:
Various Artists - "The Best Of Beat" - DVD compilation, Medusa/Planet Song 8566 (Germany), 2003:
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Blowin' In The Wind (R-0077) For the original Bangladesh Apple album release and subsequent CD releases, see 1972. For the original VHS release, see VHS & DVD 1970s. This German DVD may be pirated, so has been moved here from VHS & DVD 2000s Part 2. Thanks to Dag Braathen for information about this DVD. |
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"Celebrating Bob" - DVD release, Fantasy COD FNY 003 (Brazil), Aug 2004:
This DVD is ostensibly a copy of an American TV broadcast in a series called
"Celebrating... " made by American Dream Television and ABC Enterprises. It
consists of already available Dylan appearances and there is no commentary.
Thanks to Alexandre Froemming for the copy of the DVD.
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Fantasy COD FNY 003 (Brazil) - front insert |
Just Like A Woman - live with Tom Petty and
The Heartbreakers from the HBO special Hard To Handle with Tom Petty
and The Heartbreakers, 1986 (R-0173, see VHS & DVD 1980s) I'll Remember You - live with Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers from the HBO special Hard To Handle with Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers, 1986 (R-0180, see VHS & DVD 1980s) Most Of The Time - not the 1989 Oh Mercy version but a new version recorded for the promo video at the Record Plant, Hollywood, CA, 16 Mar 1990, produced by Don Was (R-0209, see 1990) Series Of Dreams - Columbia promo video version of track from The Bootleg Series Vols. 1-3, 1991 (R-0676, see 1991) I Don't Believe You (She Acts Like We Never Have Met) - recorded with the Hawks at Edinburgh, Scotland, 20 May 1966, from the unreleased documentary film "Eat The Document" (R-0319, see VHS & DVD 1960s) Excerpt from interview with Bob at press conference, San Francisco, 3 Dec 1965 (R-0496, see Interviews with Bob) Only A Pawn In Their Game - recorded live, Civil Rights Rally, Silas Magee's Farm, Greenwood, MS, 6 Jul 1963 (excerpt from Don't Look Back), (R-0666, see VHS & DVD 1960s) Excerpt from interview with Bob at Columbia Studios, Los Angeles, CA, 16 Dec 1965 (R-0506, see Interviews with Bob and VHS & DVD 1960s) Knockin' On Heaven's Door - live with Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers from the HBO special Hard To Handle with Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers, 1986 (R-0181, see VHS & DVD 1980s) |
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Fantasy COD FNY 003 (Brazil) - DVD |
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![]() Fantasy COD FNY 003 (Brazil) - DVD menu |
Tracks as listed on the insert are:
| 1-6 30th Anniversary Celebration Concert 7-8 Hard To Handle (R-0173, R-0180) 9 Most of The Time promo video (R-0209, mistitled "Looking The Time"!) 10 Series Of Dreams promo video edit (R-0676, mistitled "Thinking About Dreams"!) 11 Subterranean Homesick Blues cue card sequence from Don't Look Back (mistitled "Wind Blows"!) 12 Interview - 1965 interview excerpt (carry a light bulb) |
13 Donovan - clip from Don't Look Back 14 In The Beginning - Only A Pawn In Their Game, clip from Don't Look Back 15 On Stage/Revisited - I Don't Believe You 1966 with Hawks (R-0319) 16 The Folk Singer - 1965 Interview (R-0496, "How many folksingers?" - "...136.") 17 Blowing In The Wind - studio track played over footage from what looks like Don't Look Back (mistitled "Blow In The Wind") 18 Hard To Handle (R-0181) |
"Tales From A Golden Age: Bob Dylan 1941-1966" - DVD documentary, Chrome Dreams DVD-CVIS 366 (UK), 26 Oct 2004/Showtime DSD-38 (Brazil), 2007:
"20/20 Bob Dylan TV Special" - DVD release, (studio?) (catalogue number?) (USA), 2005:
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The ABC TV documentary on this unauthorised
DVD contains an interview by Bob Brown at Dylan's home in Malibu recorded on
19 Sep 1985 for a special aired on 10 Oct 1985. Includes some LA Farm-Aid
rehearsal footage, an out-take from Don't Look Back (see VHS & DVD 1960s) and some
"making of" clips for the We Are The World song
(see VHS & DVD
1980s).
The programme lasts around 40 mins, but the raw footage of the interview
(around another half hour or so) is now also available and may be on this
DVD. For more information, see
"TV Talkin'"
Thanks to Robert Jackson for information. |
"TV Live & Rare '63-'75" - DVD release, (studio?) (catalogue number?) (Germany), 2005:
"Bob Dylan World Tours 1966-1974 Through the Camera of Barry Feinstein" - DVD documentary Highway 61 Entertainment/MVD BD-1414-8 (USA), 8 Mar 2005:
"Bob Dylan: Broadcasting Live - The First 30 Years" - 3DVD set, American Legends HIT1981 (UK), 28 Nov 2005:
"The Best Of Bob Dylan" - DVD compilation, American Legends AML2033 (Europe), Feb 2006:
"Bob Dylan 1975-1981: Rolling Thunder and The Gospel Years" - DVD documentary, Highway 61 Entertainment/MVD DR-4484 (USA), 4 Apr 2006:
"Rock Milestones: Bob Dylan's 'Blood On The Tracks'" - DVD documentary, Rock Milestones RMS 2058 (UK), 19 Jun 2006:
![]() Rock Milestones RMS 2058 (UK) - picture from amazon.co.uk |
This DVD release promised "rare live footage"
although nothing is new to Dylan collectors. The title has now
been changed to Bob Dylan - Changing Tracks and the picture of the
album has been omitted from the front cover! I originally thought this was
from a documentary broadcast on UK TV in a series called "Rock Milestones"
but there's no mention of it in the text. Prominent British Dylan fans such
as Andy Gill, Clinton Heylin and Andrew Muir contribute to the programme. The DVD contains these
performances:
Thanks to Gil Walker for information about this item. For The Folk Years, see below, |
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Rock Milestones RMS 2058 (UK) - note new title and cover design (my copy) |
Rock Milestones RMS 2058 (UK) - front of insert |
Rock Milestones RMS 2058 (UK) - reverse of insert showing tracklist and all other DVDs in this series |
Rock Milestones RMS 2058 (UK) - DVD |
"After The Crash: Bob Dylan 1966-1978" - DVD documentary, Chrome Dreams DVD-CVIS 390 (UK), 28 Aug 2006:
Various Artists - "Remember The 80s" - DVD, MCP Sound (catalogue
number?) (Europe), 14 Sep 2006:
This PAL DVD is again almost certainly not authorized. The song is actually
from 1990, not the 80s!
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Inside Out (R-0339) -
from the album The Traveling Wilburys Volume Three, see
Traveling Wilburys 1990 Thanks to Bernard Reyneart for information and screen shots. |
![]() Menu screenshot by Bernard Reynaert |
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"Bob Dylan: The Golden Years 1962-1978" - 2DVD documentary set, Chrome Dreams DVD IS006 (UK), 18 Sep 2006:
"Bob Dylan: The Unauthorized Documentaries" - 3DVD set, Highway 61 Entertainment (catalogue number?) (USA), Oct 2006/Wienerworld (catalogue number?) UK), 20 Nov 2006:
"Dylan Speaks: The Legendary 1965 Press Conference In San Francisco" - interview DVD, Eagle Vision EM 35072-9 (USA), 31 Oct 2006:
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Interview at press conference, San Francisco, 3 Dec 1965
(approx. 53 mins) (R-0496) For LPs and CDs with the audio of this interview, see Interviews with Bob. Thanks to Tim Dunn for information about this item. Thanks to Jack from Canada for the scans. |
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![]() Eagle Vision EM 35072-9 (USA) - front scan by Jack from Canada |
![]() Eagle Vision EM 35072-9 (USA) - rear scan by Jack from Canada |
![]() Eagle Vision EM 35072-9 (USA) - inside of insert, scan by Jack from Canada |
![]() Eagle Vision EM 35072-9 (USA) - DVD scan by Jack from Canada |
"Rock Milestones: Bob Dylan - The Folk Years" - DVD documentary, Rock Milestones (catalogue number?) (UK), 13 Nov 2006:
Tracklisting:
1-4 Hard Times In New York Town; Baby, Please Don't Go; Hard Travelin'; Fixin' To Die - from "Folksinger's Choice" interview with Cynthia Gooding, recorded 13 Jan 1962 (audio only, the DVD also has some excerpts of the interview)
5 Man Of Constant Sorrow - "Folk Songs & More Folk Songs" TV show, Westinghouse Studios, New York, Mar 1963 (excerpt, available in complete form on No Direction Home, see above)
6 Fixin' To Die - as 4, a second excerpt (audio only)
7 The Death Of Emmett Till - as 1-4 (audio only)
8 Blowin' In The Wind - "Folk Songs & More Folk Songs" TV show, Westinghouse Studios, New York, Mar 1963 (excerpt, available in complete form in No Direction Home, see above)
9 Talkin' World War III Blues - Quest TV show, CBC TV Studios, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 1 Feb 1964
10 A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall - as 9, excerpt from third verse to end of song with talkover (R-0563). Other excerpts from this performance are on the 1990 VHS documentary John Hammond: From Bessie Smith To Bruce Springsteen (see VHS & DVD 1990s Part 1) and the 1996 VHS/DVD documentary The Beatles Anthology (see VHS & DVD 1990s Part 2).
11 Talkin' World War III Blues - as 9, second excerpt
12 The Ballad Of Hollis Brown - as 8
13 With God On Our Side - Tonight Show, BBC TV, London, 12 May 1964, first three verses with talkover (R-0669). The first two verses with different talkover are on the 1996 VHS/DVD documentary Dancing In The Street - A History Of Rock And Roll (see VHS & DVD 1990s Part 2)
14 The Lonesome Death Of Hattie Carroll - as 9
15 When The Ship Comes In - March on Washington, 28 Mar 1963 (a different excerpt is included in No Direction Home, see above)
16 All I Really Want To Do - Newport Folk Festival, Newport, RI, 26 Jul 1964 (R-0041). Available in more complete form in the 1966 feature film Festival! (see VHS & DVD 1960s).
17 My Back Pages - 30th Anniversary Concert Celebration, Madison Square Garden, New York, 16 Oct 1992 (available in complete form in 1993 VHS feature 30th Anniversary Concert Celebration (see VHS & DVD 1990s Part 1)
18 Lonesome Whistle Blues - as 1-4, 6, 7 (audio only, plays over closing credits)
Various Artists - "A Tribute To Johnny Cash" - DVD, MCP Sound MC
6306 (Europe), 2006:
This PAL DVD is almost certainly not authorised. It gives the date of the concert
incorrectly as 9
Apr 1999.
![]() MCP Sound MC 6306 (Europe) - scan by Jean-Pierre Mercier |
Train Of Love (Johnny Cash)
Thanks to Jean-Pierre Mercier for information and scans. |
![]() MCP Sound MC 6306 (Europe) - front insert scan by Jean-Pierre Mercier |
![]() MCP Sound MC 6306 (Europe) - DVD scan by Jean-Pierre Mercier |
"Bob Dylan: Music In Review" - DVD and book set, Edgehill Publishing/Sandbeach/Ragnarock Films CRP 2331 (UK), 26 Feb 2007:
![]() Sandbeach/Ragnarock Films CRP 2331 (UK) - front of book (my copy) |
This unauthorised release consists of a 72-page illustrated book by Jeff
Perkins plus a 15-track DVD. Footage is taken from "Renaldo & Clara", the
1975 "World Of John Hammond" TV Special (for both see
VHS & DVD 1970s), and the 1976
"Hard Rain TV Special", none of which are yet commercially available. Track listing (thanks to Larry Crum for details): Shelter From The Storm - live with the Rolling Thunder Revue, Fort Collins, CO, 23 May 1976 (from the "Hard Rain TV Special") Tangled Up In Blue - live with the Rolling Thunder Revue, Boston Music Hall, 21 Nov 1975 (evening show), same performance as R-0245 (see 1995) and R-0746 (see 2002) A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall - live with the Rolling Thunder Revue, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 4 Dec 1975, on The Bootleg Series Vol. 5: Live 1975 One More Cup Of Coffee - live with the Rolling Thunder Revue, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 4 Dec 1975 It Ain't Me, Babe - live with the Rolling Thunder Revue, Cambridge, MA, 20 Nov 1975, on The Bootleg Series Vol. 5: Live 1975 Railroad Boy - duet with Joan Baez live with the Rolling Thunder Revue, Fort Collins, CO, 23 May 1976 (from the "Hard Rain TV Special") Maggie's Farm - live with the Rolling Thunder Revue, Fort Collins, CO, 23 May 1976 (from the "Hard Rain TV Special") and Hard Rain Idiot Wind - live with the Rolling Thunder Revue, Fort Collins, CO, 23 May 1976 (from the "Hard Rain TV Special") and Hard Rain Hurricane - live from the "World of John Hammond" tribute programme, WWTW TV, Chicago, IL, 10 Sep 1975 (R-0132) Isis - live with the Rolling Thunder Revue, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 4 Dec 1975, same performance as R-0596 (see 2002), also the edited performance R-0533 (again see 2002) and Biograph Mozambique - live with the Rolling Thunder Revue, Fort Collins, CO, 23 May 1976 (from the "Hard Rain TV Special") Gotta Serve Somebody - live on TV (excerpt),
"Saturday Night Live", NBC TV
Studios, Rockefeller Center, New York, 20 Oct 1979 When You Gonna Wake Up - - live on TV (excerpt), "Saturday Night Live", NBC TV Studios, Rockefeller Center, New York, 20 Oct 1979 I Believe In You - live on TV (excerpt), "Saturday Night Live", NBC TV Studios, Rockefeller Center, New York, 20 Oct 1979 The DVD also contains a performance of Gloria by Patti Smith. |
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"The Bob Dylan Phenomenon" - DVD release, Storm Bird STB 2378 (UK), Jul 2007:
"Bob Dylan Live" - DVD release, Storm Bird STB 2466 (UK), 20 Aug 2007:
The tracklisting is as follows:
"Don't Look Back Out-takes" - DVD release, Tambourine Man Video TMV 003/4 (Europe), 2007:
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This unauthorised DVD contains previously uncirculating out-takes from
the 1967 D A Pennebaker documentary Don't Look Back (see VHS
& DVD 1960s), filmed in the UK in 1965. It also contains a 1966
out-take from Eat The Document with Bob and John Lennon in a London
taxi.
Thanks to Fred Muller for information and scans. |
![]() Tambourine Man Video TMV 003/4 (Europe) - DVD insert scan by Fred Muller |
"Woodstock '94" - DVD release, Woodstock Tapes 11660 (Europe), 2007:
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This unauthorised DVD contains Bob's full set, only Highway 61 Revisited
has been officially released on CD. For official radio station discs, the soundtrack album and CD singles, see 1994
and 1995. For the official Woodstock 94 VHS video release, see
VHS
& DVD 1990s Part 1 (as far as I know there is yet no official DVD
release.
Thanks to Fred Muller for information and scans. |
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"Bob Dylan In Performance" - 2 DVD set, Storm Bird (catalogue number?) (UK), 26 Nov 2007:
"Live Transmissions" - DVD boxed set, Edgehill Publishing (catalogue number?) (UK), 28 Jan 2008:
"The Broadcast Archives: Classic Performances" - DVD release, Archive Media Publishing APX2652DVD (UK), 2008:
"Bob Dylan 1978-1989: Both Ends Of The Rainbow" - DVD release, Chrome Dreams CVIS 603 (UK), 10 Jun 2008:

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