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What do you do when the likes of Hipgnosis and Round Hill have made buying up music rights a popular past-time among those super-rich city types and you’re meant to be a pro at that sort of thing? I know, get $300 million out of the cash box and buy up the entire songs catalogue of a songwriter so good he won a Nobel prize for his lyrics.

Universal Music Publishing Group, part of Vivendi's Universal Music Group, on Monday unveiled the acquisition of Bob Dylan's entire catalog of songs. The "landmark agreement encompasses more than 600 copyrights spanning 60 years, from 1962's cultural milestone 'Blowin' In The Wind' to this year's epic 'Murder Most Foul'," the music major said.

Bob Dylan's entire catalog of songs, which reaches back 60 years, is being acquired by Universal Music Publishing Group.

Read more: Hipgnosis plots £250m share placing to fund song buying spreeGallery: The biggest musical hit the year you were born (Espresso)The value of the deal was not disclosed. Bob Dylan has sold more than 125m records and was the first songwriter to have been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2016 “for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition.

told Bloomberg the songs are worth more than $200 million, with others telling the New York Times that it could be more than $300 million.That would make it likely the biggest acquisition ever of the music publishing rights of a single act, the paper said.Dylan — who had previously controlled most of his own songwriting copyrights — sold more than 600 copyrights spanning 60 years, Universal said.That includes classics that made him an icon from his time in New York in the early 1960s — such as

Bob Dylan, whose music career has stretched from the early-1960s folk scene to a critically acclaimed album released earlier this year, has sold his entire song catalog to Universal Music Publishing Group.

NEW YORK -- Bob Dylan’s 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 Heaven’s 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

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorThe song-catalog bonanza of 2020 just hit a peak that is not likely to be topped: Universal Music Publishing Group has acquired Bob Dylan’s entire catalog of songs in a blockbuster agreement encompassing more than 600 copyrights spanning 60 years, ranging from 1962’s “Blowin’ in the Wind” to this year’s “Murder Most Foul.” His catalog was previously administered by Sony/ATV Music Publishing.Terms were not disclosed, but a source tells Variety that the deal was

Bob Dylan, Tracy Chapman and Mazzy Star.The latest release comes after the three-piece — consisting of Interpol‘s Paul Banks, producer Josh Kaufman and The Walkmen‘s Matt Barrick — released their self-titled debut album on June 5.The new EP is set for release on December 9 and will see the band putting their own spin on Arthur Russell favourite ‘Nobody Wants A Lonely Heart’, as well as Bob Dylan’s ‘Girl From The North Country’ and Mazzy Star’s ‘Fade Into You’.Tracy Chapman’s ‘For You’,

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Arthouse darling Xavier Dolan is shifting to the small screen with a TV drama for Quebecor Content.

Veteran Canadian film director Xavier Dolan has joined the golden age of TV. After his eighth feature film, Matthias & Maxime, Dolan is partnering with Canal+, Quebecor Content and Studiocanal for his first drama, the five-episode The Night Logan Wakes Up series.

For months now, Xavier Dolan has teased the idea of making a TV miniseries as his next big writing-directing gig.

Luke Perry may be gone, but Dylan McKay lives on. Jennie Garth and Tori Spelling got emotional as they discussed Perry’s first episode of Beverly Hills, 90210.“That was a pretty exciting thing for everyone, I think, not just those of us who got to work with him.

Today has apologised after mistakenly saying that Bob Dylan had died.The breakfast show was airing a segment over the weekend about the songwriter’s documents being auctioned off in Boston for $495,000 (£373k).However, an on-screen banner read “Late singer’s documents sell for $495 thousand,” which lead to host Richard Wilkins apologising the viewers.“We need to make a correction now,” he said after the broadcast.

A long-lost trove of Bob Dylan documents including the singer-songwriter’s musings about anti-Semitism and unpublished song lyrics has sold at auction for a total of $495,000. Boston-based R.R.

Bob Dylan documents has sold at auction for $495,000 (£373k).The papers included unpublished lyrics written by the star, letters between him and late American blues musician Tony Glover, and transcripts of interviews between the pair.The collection, which previously belonged to Glover and was auctioned off by his widow, was sold in separate lots at Boston’s RR Auction house.