After gigs in Sweden, Germany, France, Italy and elsewhere, the tour will culminate with five shows at London's Brixton Academy and two concerts in Dublin. 　　

It comes nearly three months after Dylan's North American tour with a five-piece band, and he is expected to feature a similar mix of old and new work, including classics like "Maggie's Farm" and "Lay, Lady, Lay" and songs from his latest studio album, "Love and Theft". 　　

Dylan fans worldwide have already had much excitement recently with the release of director Martin Scorsese's epic documentary "No Direction Home" this year which charts Dylan's meteoric rise to superstardom through unusually forthright interviews with the man himself and a host of both besotted and reproachful contemporaries. 　　

He has also published an autobiography "Chronicles" and "The Bob Dylan Scrapbook, 1956-1966" within the past 12 months. 　　Dylan, who is 64, started as a protest folk singer in the 1960s, the decade that propelled him to world fame. 　　

Still deeply rooted in American traditional folk music, he has since embraced rock'n'roll, country music and even jazz. 　

Tickets in Stockholm's Globen arena are priced between 375 and 560 kronor (48 to 71 dollars) and had not been sold out by the weekend.