NEW YORK: Bob Dylans entire catalog of songs, which reaches back 60 years is being acquired by Universal Music Publishing Group.
The catalog contains 600 song copyrights including Blowin In The Wind, The Times They Are a-Changin, Knockin On Heavens Door, and Tangled Up In Blue.”
The influence of Dylan’s body of work may only be matched by that of the Beatles.
Financial terms were not disclosed Monday.
Brilliant and moving, inspiring and beautiful, insightful and provocative, his songs are timelesswhether they were written more than half a century ago or yesterday,” said Sir Lucian Grainge, CEO of Universal Music Group, in a prepared statement.
Dylans songs have been recorded more than 6,000 times, by various artists from dozens of countries, cultures and music genres, including the Jimi Hendrix version of All Along The Watchtower.”
The transaction’s announcement comes a few weeks after the singer-songwriters musings about anti-Semitism and unpublished song lyrics sold at auction for a total of $495,000.
Dylan, first entered the public consciousness with New York Citys Greenwich Village folk scene during the early 1960s. When he brought an electric guitar on stage in 1965, he split the music community in what was considered a radical departure for an artist.
Dylan then produced three albums back to back in just over a year that are changed the course of rock n roll that decade, starting with Bringing It All Back Home.”
Dylan has sold more than 125 million records globally. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2016, the first songwriter to receive such a distinction.
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