Bob Dylan has been announced as a last-minute addition to the Farm Aid 40 lineup.

The announcement Wednesday came just days before the festival, adding unexpected weight to an already significant anniversary.

The addition of Dylan brings the event full circle. At Live Aid in 1985, Dylan made an offhand comment about wanting to see some of the money raised go to help struggling American farmers.

“I hope that some of the money ... maybe they can just take a little bit of it,” Dylan said in his signature halting manner. “Maybe ... one or two million, maybe ... and use it, say, to pay the mortgages on some of the farms and, the farmers here, owe to the banks."

That remark inspired Willie Nelson, Neil Young and John Mellencamp to create Farm Aid later that year.

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