Bob Dylan

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FILE - In this Feb. 6, 2015 file photo, Bob Dylan accepts the 2015 MusiCares Person of the Year award at the 2015 MusiCares Person of the Year show in Los Angeles. Phrases sprinkled throughout the rock legend's lecture for his Nobel Prize in literature are very similar to phrases from the summation of "Moby Dick" on Sparknotes, a sort of online "Cliff's Notes" that's familiar to modern students looking for shortcuts and teachers trying to catch them. Slate writer Andrea Pitzer made the discovery, finding 20 cases where Dylan's text had very similar phrases to Sparknotes' text. Dylan recorded the 26-minute lecture in Los Angeles and provided it to the Swedish Academy, which called it "extraordinary" and "eloquent" in a June 5, 2017 news release. (Photo by Vince Bucci/Invision/AP, File)

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FILE - In this Jan. 20, 1968 file photo, folk singer Bob Dylan, center, performs with drummer Levon Helm, left, Rick Danko, second left, and Robbie Robertson of The Band at Carnegie Hall in New York. For most of 1967, Bob Dylan quietly made history in a basement outside of Woodstock, New York. With the gifted musicians who later named themselves Band, he sang dozens of old country and Appalachian ballads, along with such originals as “I Shall Be Released” and “Tears of Rage.” (AP Photo, File)

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Permanent Secretary of the Swedish Academy Sara Danius enters to a concert by Bob Dylan at Stockholm Waterfront Saturday April 1, 2017. The Swedish Academy will meet with singer-songwriter Dylan during the weekend to hand over Dylan's Nobel diploma and the Nobel medal during a "small and intimate" presentation ceremony.( Johan Nilsson / TT via AP)

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FILE - In this Jan. 12, 2012, file photo, Bob Dylan performs in Los Angeles. Dylan, who was named the winner of the 2016 Nobel Prize in literature on Oct. 13, 2016, says he “absolutely” wants to attend the Nobel Prize Award Ceremony “if it’s at all possible” in December, finally breaking his silence about earning the prestigious honor. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello, File)

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Huddie William "Lead Belly" Ledbetter, with his 12-string guitar, inspired Bob Dylan and Kurt Cobain.

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This undated photo provided by Sotheby’s shows a page from a working draft of Bob Dylan’s “Like a Rolling Stone,” one of the most popular songs of all time. The draft, in Dylan’s own hand, is coming to auction in New York on June 24, 2014 where it could fetch an estimated $1 million to $2 million. Sotheby’s says it is “the only known surviving draft of the final lyrics for this transformative rock anthem.” (AP Photo/Sotheby’s)

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This undated photo provided by Sotheby’s shows a page from a working draft of Bob Dylan’s “Like a Rolling Stone,” one of the most popular songs of all time. The draft, in Dylan’s own hand, is coming to auction in New York on June 24, 2014 where it could fetch an estimated $1 million to $2 million. Sotheby’s says it is “the only known surviving draft of the final lyrics for this transformative rock anthem.” (AP Photo/Sotheby’s)

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This undated photo provided by Sotheby’s shows a page from a working draft of Bob Dylan’s “Like a Rolling Stone,” one of the most popular songs of all time. The draft, in Dylan’s own hand, is coming to auction in New York on June 24, 2014 where it could fetch an estimated $1 million to $2 million. Sotheby’s says it is “the only known surviving draft of the final lyrics for this transformative rock anthem.” (AP Photo/Sotheby’s)

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This undated photo provided by Sotheby’s shows a working draft of Bob Dylan’s “Like a Rolling Stone,” one of the most popular songs of all time. The draft, in Dylan’s own hand, is coming to auction in New York on June 24, 2014 where it could fetch an estimated $1 million to $2 million. Sotheby’s says it is “the only known surviving draft of the final lyrics for this transformative rock anthem.” (AP Photo/Sotheby’s)

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American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan performs at Les Vieilles Charrues festival in Carhaix, France, on July 22, 2012. French authorities have filed preliminary charges against Mr. Dylan over an interview in which he is quoted comparing Croatians to Nazis and the Ku Klux Klan. (AP Photo/David Vincent)