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Bob Dylan sold his entire back catalog of recorded music along with "the rights to multiple future new releases" to Sony Music Entertainment, the company announced on Jan. 24, the latest high-profile deal of the recent music rights purchasing rush.

Leonard Cohen, the storied musician and poet hailed as one of the most visionary artists of his generation, has died at age 82, it was announced on Nov. 10.

Bob Johnston, who produced Bob Dylan's celebrated "Blonde on Blonde" album and Johnny Cash's live "At Folsom Prison" in a career spanning more than 50 years, has died at the age of 83. 

The producer died on Aug. 14 in a Nashville hospice, said Charlie McCoy, a veteran studio musician who often worked with him.