Happy birthday from everyone at the RWB offices to Bob Dylan, who turns 66 tomorrow (May 24th). He doesn’t look like he’s planning to slow down at all this year; quite the opposite, in fact. Just announced is a series of concerts in New Zealand and Australia during the month of August. Those concerts will follow a series of gigs in June and July that will see Bob and the band go from Atlantic City, NJ, to Kelseyville, CA. And fall dates — again in the U.S. — are already beginning to appear at Bill Pagel’s peerless tour guide page. (And of-course, he just finished a tour of Europe a couple of weeks ago.) We know that Dylan’s weekly XM satellite radio show will be restarting in September, too. There’s no official word on a “Chronicles, Volume Two,” or on another album to follow-up on last year’s number one smash-hit, Modern Times, but presumably Dylan will have to fill up all his spare time between gigs somehow.

Speaking of Australia and birthdays, there exists a YouTube clip of Dylan singing Happy Birthday to one of his then backing singers, Queen Esther Marrow, on stage in Sydney, Australia, in 1986. Click here to view it directly via YouTube or click below.

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And in another kind of birthday tribute, the city of Duluth, Minnesota (Dylan’s birthplace) will inaugurate the 1.8 mile “Bob Dylan Way” tomorrow by installing the first street sign with that designation.

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