Grateful Dead co-founder Bob Weir dies
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Bob Dylan has paid a heartwarming tribute to Bob Weir, after his death at 78.The Grateful Dead guitarist and founding member passed away from “underlying lung issues” on January 20, just months after being diagnosed with cancer in
Nancy Wilson, Don Was, Andy Cohen, Les Claypool, Lee Ranaldo, Billy Corgan, Slash, and many others paid tribute to the founding Grateful Dead member
Bob Dylan has written hundreds of songs over his decades-long career, but "Ballad in Plain D" is one he looks back on with regret.
Bob Dylan is among a number of stars who have taken to social media to pay tribute to Grateful Dead guitarist and founding member Bob Weir, following his death at the age of 78.
Bob Dylan leads the tributes to Bob Weir, following his death at 78. The Grateful Dead guitarist and founding member passed away from “underlying lung issues” over the weekend, just months after being diagnosed with cancer in July 2025,
And as Ben Sherlock wrote for Screen Rant, the carnival claim is "tough to verify, but it seems likely that Dylan lied about working at a carnival, just as Baez suspects in A Complete Unknown. He also says he was from Gallup, New Mexico, but that’s not true; he was born in Duluth, Minnesota."
That he not busy being born / Is busy dying.” If asked to sum up Bob Dylan’s career using his own lyrics, one could do far worse than clipping the above line from 1965’s Bringing It All Back Home. This lyrical maxim captures an idea articulated by Dylan throughout his career—that stagnancy rings out like a death knell for the true artist.
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