Timothée Chalamet said he “turned over every stone” — including gaining 20 lbs. — to play folk icon Bob Dylan in "A Complete Unknown," which earned him a Best Actor Academy Award nomination.

The spring tour will begin in Tulsa, Okla., the home of the Bob Dylan Center, on March 25 at the Tulsa Theater. Tickets are already on sale for the show at Dylan’s website. Dyla

Timothée Chalamet promised surprises when he hosted 'SNL,' and he delivered by playing three obscure Bob Dylan songs nobody saw coming.

Juliette Lewis recalls her own superfan moments with music greats Iggy Pop and Bob Dylan. Lewis joined filmmaker Mark Anthony Green for the Sundance premiere of his debut feature, "Opus."

Tutor to the stars and session pro Larry Saltzman shares what it was like to teach Chalamet the nuances of Dylan's playing, which the actor recently showcased on Saturday Night Live

The singer's increase in streams following "A Complete Unknown" highlights how music biopics can elevate an artist's popularity to new heights

Bob Dylan's second album The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan debuts on three charts in the U.K. this week following the wide release of A Complete Unknown.

Bob Dylan's Highway 61 Revisited debuts at No. 31 on the U.K.'s albums downloads chart, becoming a top 40 hit for the first time on that tally, 60 years after its release.

Timothée Chalamet learned to play guitar and sing like Bob Dylan for “A Complete Unknown.” He also gained 20 pounds to look more like the folk music legend, he revealed an interview with NPR. “I’ve turned over every stone.

Today in Music History for Jan. 30: In 1917, the Original Dixieland Jazz Band recorded ``Darktown Strutters' Ball.'' Some historians consider this to be the earliest commercially made jazz record. It was written by Shelton Brooks, who was born in 1886 in Amherstburg, Ont. The song was inspired by a ball at the 1915 Pacific-Panama Exposition in San Francisco. In 1928, Ruth Brown, the most-recorded female R&B singer of the 1950s, was born in Portsmouth, Va. Her total of 87 songs for the Atlantic label between 1949 and 1962 surpassed the number of songs recorded by such other Atlantic artists as Ray Charles and ``The Drifters.'' Brown's first record to top the R&B charts was ``Teardrops From My Eyes,'' in 1950. She died on Nov. 17, 2006. In 1943, Marty Balin, vocalist with both the ``Jefferson Airplane'' and its successor, ``Jefferson Starship,'' was born in Cincinnati. He was the originator, with Paul Kantner, of the ``Airplane,'' the group which epitomized the psychedelic culture of the late-1960s. Balin left ``Jefferson Airplane'' in 1971, but joined ``Jefferson Starship'' for three hit albums, beginning in 1975. Balin departed the ``Starship'' in 1978, and in 1981 had a hit single, ``Hearts.'' In 1956, Elvis Presley recorded a version of Carl Perkins' ``Blue Suede Shoes,'' in New York. In 1969, ``The Beatles'' gave their last public performance. It was a free lunchtime concert on the roof of the building that housed their Apple Corps Ltd. headquarters. One of the results was the song ``Get Back,'' released as a single. It and other tracks from the performance were included in the ``Let It Be'' album, released in the spring of 1970. ``The Beatles'' managed to carve their place in music history with a career that lasted only seven years, counting from the recording of their first hit single, ``Love Me Do,'' in 1962. In 1973, ``KISS'' performed their first show, in New York. In 1976, bluesman Mance Lipscomb died in his hometown of Navasota, Texas. He was 80. A compatriot of the wider-known Lightnin' Hopkins, Lipscomb didn't record until he was 65 years old, but his influence can be heard in some of the songs of Bob Dylan and the ``Grateful Dead.'' In 1980, rockabilly singer Warren Smith died at age 46. He was among the artists who recorded for the Sun label in the late 1950s. Although Smith had only one minor hit, ``So Long I'm Gone,'' his records are now highly prized by collectors. In 1980, R&B pioneer Professor Longhair, born Henry Roeland Byrd, died in New Orleans. He was the originator of the classic New Orleans piano style made popular by Fats Domino, but a combination of poor health and mismanagement kept him from the recognition he deserved. His 1959 recording of ``Go to the Mardi Gras'' became a theme song of the annual carnival. In 1982, Lightnin' Hopkins, who may well have been the most frequently recorded traditional blues artist in history, died in Houston of cancer age 69. He played amplified guitar on his early recordings in the 1940s and '50s. But later, when Texas blues fell out of favour, he switched to acoustic guitar, playing at folk festivals and concerts with such musicians as Joan Baez and Pete Seeger. Some of Lightnin' Hopkins' music appears on the soundtrack of the 1972 film ``Sounder.'' In 1988, Harold Loeffelmacher, leader of one of the most popular polka bands in North America, died in his hometown of New Ulm, Minn., at the age of 82. He led the ``Six Fat Dutchmen'' for more than 50 years, founding the group in the 1930s. Among the polka group's more than 200 recordings were ``The Beer Barrel Polka,'' ``Too Fat Polka'' and the band's theme song, ``Dutchman's Waltz.'' In 1989, ``When I'm With You,'' a seven-year-old song by the defunct Toronto band ``Sheriff,'' hit No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100. The song's belated success brought its writer, Arnold Lanni, millions of dollars in royalties. Lanni went on to form the band ``Frozen Ghost.'' In 1989, singer Randy Travis won three American Music Awards, including one for favourite male country artist. In 1990, Bob Dylan was awarded the title Commander of Arts and Letters by the French Culture Ministry. Dylan had begun a European tour in Paris the day before. In 1995, ``Boyz II Men'' won three American Music Awards - favourite soul/R&B group and their single ``I'll Make Love To You'' won awards for favourite pop/rock and soul/R&B single. Prince received the award of merit for outstanding musical contributions. In 1996, record producer Bob Thiele, who recorded artists as diverse as Buddy Holly, Jack Kerouac and John Coltrane, died at age 73. He's best known for his eight-year association with the Impulse jazz label in the 1960s. Thiele wrote the Louis Armstrong hit ``What a Wonderful World.'' In 1997, ``Oasis'' guitarist Noel Gallagher sparked outrage in Britain by saying in a radio interview that drug-taking was as normal as having a cup of tea. At least one member of Parliament called for Gallagher to be prosecuted and Home Office Minister Tom Sackville called the pop star's comments ``really stupid.'' Gallagher also defended Brian Harvey, who had recently been fired as lead singer of ``East 17'' for saying that taking the drug ecstasy was safe. In 1999, Toronto-based tenor Ben Heppner made his Carnegie Hall debut before an enthusiastic New York audience that called him back for five encores. In 2010, Leonard Cohen and Michael Jackson headed a group that received lifetime achievement awards from the Grammys. Other artists who received the award were: Bobby Darin, David ``Honeyboy'' Edwards, Loretta Lynn, Andre Previn and Clark Terry. In 2011, British composer John Barry, who won five Oscars for his film work but was best known for his contributions to a dozen James Bond movies, died in New York at age 77. He won two Oscars, for the score and the song, for ``Born Free'' in 1966, and he earned single statuettes for ``The Lion in Winter'' (1968), ``Out of Africa'' (1985) and ``Dances with Wolves'' (1990). In 2013, Patty Andrews, the last surviving member of the ``Andrews Sisters'' whose hits such as the rollicking ``Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy of Company B'' and the poignant ``I Can Dream, Can't I?'' captured the home-front spirit of World War II, died at age 94. The sister trio, including LaVerne and Maxene, recorded more than 400 songs and sold over 80 million records. In 2013, pianist and vocalist Ann Rabson, co-founder of the trio ``Saffire_The Uppity Blues Women,'' died after a battle with cancer. She was 67. In 2021, Grammy-nominated Scottish disc jockey, producer and recording artist Sophie died following an accident in Athens, Greece. She was 34. Her UK label, Transgressive, says Sophie died after she had ``climbed up to watch the full moon and accidentally slipped and fell.'' The Glasgow-born artist, widely considered a music industry pioneer, began releasing music in 2013 and worked with Vince Staples as well as Charli XCX and Madonna. ----- The Canadian Press

The 29-year-old actor has won praise and landed an Oscar nomination for his portrayal of Dylan in the biopic ‘A Complete Unknown’.