Bob Dylan - Greatest Hits Live [180g Picture Disc]

Format: 180g Picture Disc in die cut sleeve, with 2pp insert and A3 poster
Catalogue No.: GYVOPD8203
Barcode: 4753399820334
Release Date: Feb 2026
Genre: Folk/Americana

 Collection of iconic classics performed live for broadcast FM radio
 180g Picture Disc in die cut sleeve
 2pp insert with archival images and extensive liner notes
 Includes A3 poster
 Digitally remastered

Bob Dylan, Greatest Hits, live on FM radio

Greatest Hits Live presents Bob Dylan not as a static icon, but as a constantly evolving force, captured across three decades of live performance. Drawing from legendary concerts, broadcasts, and festival appearances between 1965 and 1994, this collection traces the transformation of Dylan’s most enduring songs as they were reshaped on stage, night after night, era after era. Rather than offering definitive versions, this release celebrates reinvention — the restless spirit that has always defined Dylan’s relationship with his own work.

Opening with “Like A Rolling Stone” from Sydney in 1986, the song that permanently altered the language of popular music arrives battle-hardened and defiant. No longer the shocked howl of 1965, it carries the authority of survival, proving Dylan’s own words: “A song is anything that can walk by itself.” That independence is felt throughout the set, as familiar lyrics are recontextualized by time, voice, and circumstance.

“A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall,” taken from the Hard Rain television broadcast in 1976, unfolds with apocalyptic intensity, its imagery sounding eerily contemporary years after it was first written. “Just Like a Woman” and “All Along the Watchtower,” both drawn from 1986 performances, demonstrate Dylan’s ability to bend melody and phrasing, reshaping emotional meaning without altering a single line of text.

Side Two broadens the scope. “I Shall Be Released,” recorded at Woodstock in 1994, carries the weight of reflection and grace, a song Dylan once described as “a simple song, really,” now delivered with quiet authority. The acoustic “It’s Alright, Ma (I’m Only Bleeding)” from Madison Square Garden in 1974 strips everything back to voice, guitar, and truth — a reminder that few writers have confronted power and hypocrisy with such directness.

Early classics like “Mr. Tambourine Man” and “It’s All Over Now Baby Blue,” sourced from the Hollywood Bowl in 1965, preserve the sound of an artist standing at the edge of transformation. Meanwhile, “Highway 61 Revisited,” performed with The Band in 1974, reconnects Dylan to the electric roar that once scandalized folk purists, and “Positively Fourth Street” closes the set with cutting clarity and unflinching resolve.

Greatest Hits Live is not a greatest-hits package in the conventional sense. It is a portrait of movement, resistance, and renewal — a reminder of Dylan’s enduring belief that “he not busy being born is busy dying.”

Side 1
1 Like A Rolling Stone 5.53 ****
2 A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall 8.02 ***
3 Just Like A Woman 7.29 ******
4 All Along The Watchtower 5.22 ******
 
Side 2
1 I Shall Be Released 6.04 ******
2 It’s Alright, Ma (I’m Only Bleeding) (acoustic) 4.52 ** 
3 Mr. Tambourine Man  5.50 * 
4 It’s All Over Now Baby Blue 5.04 *
5 Highway 61 Revisited (with The Band) 3.52 ** 
6 Positively Fourth Street 3.33 *****

* Hollywood Bowl, Hollywood, CA September 3rd 1965 WNBC-FM 
** Madison Square Garden, NY , January 31st 1974 WNEW-FM 
*** Hard Rain US TV Broadcast Version, Fort Collins, May 23rd 1976 NBC-TV 
**** Entertainment Centre, Sydney, Australia February 1986 KSAN-FM  
***** Rich Stadium, Buffalo, New York, NY July 4th 1986 MTV Satellite Feed  
****** Woodstock Festival, North Stage, Saugerties, NY August 14th 1994 WNEW-FM