Bob Dylan - Desire

Desire is the seventeenth studio album by American singer songwriter Bob Dylan, originally released in January 1976 via Columbia Records.

Desire is one of Dylan's most collaborative efforts, featuring the same caravan of musicians as the acclaimed Rolling Thunder Revue tours the previous year (later documented on The Bootleg Series Vol. 5). Many of the songs also featured backing vocals by Emmylou Harris and Ronee Blakley.

Most of the album was co-written with Jacques Levy, and is composed of lengthy story-songs, two of which quickly generated controversy: the 11-minute-long "Joey", which is seen as glorifying the violent gangster "Crazy Joey" Gallo, and "Hurricane", the opening track that tells a passionate account of the murder case against boxer Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, whom the song asserts was framed. Carter was later released in 1985, after a judge overturned his conviction on appeal.

A well-received follow-up to Blood on the Tracks, Desire reached No. 1 on the US Billboard Pop Albums chart for five weeks, becoming one of Dylan's best-selling studio albums.

This album is a 2026 reissue on black vinyl housed in a single pocket sleeve with a printed inner sleeve, pressed in Europe via Columbia Records.