A Sydney institution since it first went to air in 1985, the annual 2SER Bob Dylan Birthday Marathon returns on the 25th of May from 8pm to 4am to celebrate the 83rd birthday of the Picasso Of Rock.

Our feature albums are the gloriously remastered and expanded Complete Budokan 1978 and the soundtrack to Shadow Kingdom. Bob Dylan band members talk about playing with Bob. Hear Bob’s version of Leonard Cohen’s Dance Me To The End Of Love. George Harrison talks about being in the audience for Bob’s legendary May 1966 Royal Albert Hall concert.

For the last 39 years 2SER’s Bob Dylan Birthday Marathon has been celebrating the Nobel and Pulitzer-prize winning artist’s birthday with news, reviews, interviews, the Dylan Quiz – and all the Bobsongs that fit and of course the requests section roars into the early hours.

As ever there will be a profusion of live versions, soundtrack contributions, oddities and rare tracks. So for 8 hours and over 6 decades of Bobcat Heaven tune into 2SER and throw a party to celebrate the 83rd birthday of His Bobness. Saturday 25th May 8pm to 4am.