A group of Swedish scientists with a lot of time on their hands have spent the last 17 years competing to see who can sneak the most Bob Dylan lyrics into their research papers.

A handwritten manuscript of Bob Dylan's "Like A Rolling Stone" was sold today in New York at rich people's eBay, Sotheby's auction house, for $2.045 million to an unidentified bidder. The early draft of the lyrics, written on stationery from the Roger Smith Hotel in Washington, was vaunted by Sotheby's as "the only…

In an effort to further flesh out his mysterious list of 99 problems, Jay-Z has released a track called "Open Letter" that addresses a couple of his more recent predicaments.

Sort of like the geriatric's version Chris Brown-Drake fight, but with less violence and no Tony Parker, Bob Dylan is beefing with historians at PBS over the whereabouts of the electric guitar he used at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival, where Dylan famously went "electric." Dylan claims he's still in possession of the…

Thirteen people, living and dead, were awarded the nation's highest civilian honor (after Universal Royalty Ultimate Grand Supreme, 4-8-Year-Old Division) on Tuesday. One of those people was Bob Dylan and the other twelve weren't Bob Dylan.

Liquory tooth-brushing trademark litigant Ke$ha has contributed a version of Bob Dylan's "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right" to an upcoming Amnesty International compilation of 76 Dylan covers. The results—a raw, snotty-nosed Ke$ha baring her glittery soul for the world—might surprise you.

The world's premier gambling event, the announcement of the Nobel Prize in Literature, happens on Thursday. Who's gonna win? Bob Dylan? (No.) Here are your betting odds!

Here's a pro-tip for all you would-be romantics out there: If your girlfriend has taken out a restraining order against you, show up on her doorstep with some friends to play her some Dylan tunes! No, wait—don't. Don't do that.

Multimillionaire musician Bob Dylan performed in China this week and, shockingly, did not sing ancient protest song "Blowin' in the Wind." This, writes New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd, "is a whole new kind of sellout."

Here's a treat from last night's edition of Late Night: Jimmy Fallon performing as Bob Dylan and singing the Charles in Charge theme song. Note that his impression of Dylan is just as good as his impression of Neil Young.

This video imagines a world in which "Mr. Tambourine Man" and "All Along the Watchtower" weren't the only famous Dylan standards. Could it be that "My Humps" was originally inspired by a "lovely lady-lump" Joan Baez had on her back?

Legendary satellite radio DJ Bob Dylan just signed a six-book deal with Simon & Schuster, including two more volumes of memoirs and one book about his radio show. Somewhere a Dylan superfan is crushed that he's not writing a seventh.

Like your holidays full of the little Lord Jesus? So did Bob Dylan in 1978. In this stage patter from the unauthorized documentary Busy Being Born... Again! Bobby testifies to Baby J. and says KISS leads to the pit.

Hedge fund mogul and art hoarder Adam Sender dropped $422,500 at auction on the handwritten lyrics to Bob Dylan's "Times They Are a-Changing," more than $100K over the estimate. He still can't buy back his youth. [Image via Getty]

Wyclef Jean's new EP is out today, and the Guardian caught up with him. He sometimes speaks in the third person, and knows he's the man: "Fans on Twitter call me the modern-day Fela or Marley or Dylan, you know."

Musician Bob Dylan's handwritten sheet of lyrics to "The Times They Are a-Changin'" is expected to fetch $200,000 to $300,000 at auction. Guess it's time for me to admit that the waters around me have grown, because, really?

YouTube is often lauded as an innovation that revolutionized the distribution system for contemporary music videos. But, it also functions in another, largely unheralded capacity: it facilitates the discovery of old artists by new generations.