Bob Dylan signs up for seven-date Euro tour

Jan 9 2009

Part of his European tour which begins in Sweden on March 23, these shows will be his first in the UK since 2007.

Bob Dylan's Tell Tale Signs – the eighth instalment in the best-selling and critically lauded Bootleg Series which launched 1991 – was released recently by Columbia Records to massive media acclaim. 

A treasure-trove of 27 songs spanning two discs, Tell Tale Signs features previously unreleased recordings and alternate versions of tracks from sessions which generated some of Bob Dylan's most acclaimed and commercially successful albums from the last two decades., including Time Out Of Mind, Love And Theft, Modern Times and Oh Mercy.

Bob Dylan is one of the world's most popular and acclaimed songwriters, musicians and performers, having sold more than 110 million albums and performed literally thousands of shows around the world in a career spanning five decades. 

His most recent studio album, Modern Times – lauded by critics around the world and selling more than 2.5 million copies to date -- entered the Billboard Top 200 Albums chart at No 1, as well as debuting within the top five in 21 other countries. 

His previous studio albums, Time Out Of Mind and Love & Theft, have been among his most commercially successful and critically lauded, each having sold more than a million copies and earning Grammy nominations for Album Of The Year (Time Out Of Mind won that award in 1998). 

In 2001, he received a Golden Globe and an Academy Award for best song from a motion picture for Things Have Changed from the movie Wonder Boys.

Dylan's Chronicles – Volume I, his memoirs released in October 2004, was a world-wide best seller, spending 19 weeks on The New York Times Bestseller List.

To book tickets log on to www.accliverpool.com  or call the Echo Arena Box Office on 0844 8000 400. Tickets are priced at £42 and £37 (all subject to booking and transactions fees).