On This Day: Bob Dylan Released His Most Controversial Album Ever originally appeared on Parade. Released on this day in 1979, Bob Dylan’s Slow Train Coming became his most controversial record ever.

Bob Dylan has had several major musical makeovers, and here are three albums that are arguably the most extreme.

“A Complete Unknown,” the new Bob Dylan biopic set in the early 1960s, ends years before the singer’s controversial “gospel” period. Starting with 1979’s “Slow Train Coming,” Dylan recorded three ...

This is, after all, an artist whose fans moved against him in 1965 over going electric. “Judas,” they called him. But Dylan’s newfound religion was striking for its intensity. He preached, raged, and ...