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Podcast: Slate History
Episode: Hit Parade | The Freewheelinâ Edition Part 1
Description: At the movies, A Complete Unknown depicts Bob Dylan as a 1960s âitâ boyâplayed by a 2020s âitâ boy, TimothĂ©e Chalamet. But the film ends in 1965. What happened in the six decades after that?Dylan not only kept recording. He actually started topping the chartsâin the 1970s, the era of Led Zeppelin, not Pete Seeger. And several of his chart-topping albums came decades later, in the 21st century. Bobâs voice got rougher, but loyal audiences kept buying his music.Several of these platinum Dylan LPs are among the m...