On Thursday 13 November, Bob Dylan will play in Coventry for the first time. As a tribute to the great singer-songwriter, the Coventry Music Museum will be hosting a special pop up-exhibition from Saturday 6 September.

The new exhibit - entitled Still Working on Maggie’s Farm: To welcome Bob Dylan to the Specials’ Coventry - celebrates the fact that in 1980, Coventry band The Specials reached number 4 in the charts with a cover of Dylan's classic, Maggie’s Farm. The Specials version was aimed squarely at the Prime Minister of the time, Margaret Thatcher, and the chorus “I Ain’t Gonna Work On Maggie’s Farm No More” resonated with listeners during that time. It later helped to fuel the political Red Wedge movement, that included The Specials' Jerry Dammers.

The exhibition will centre around Dylan’s room, travelling back to those early days - and you may even find a few clues to song lyrics that Bob tantalised us with back in the 60’s.

Although Bob Dylan has never before visited Coventry, there are already links between his songs and the region - besides The Specials' Top Ten hit. A cover of Rainy Day Woman, this time by Coventry’s Selecter, appeared on their Pucker! Album in 1995. Dylan's Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again name-checks local lad William Shakespeare - surely Will and Bob would have got along.

Triumph Motorcycles, a brand originally made in Coventry, then nearby at Meriden, also loomed large in Dylan's life. As well as famously sporting a Triumph T-shirt on the cover of his Highway 61 album, it was also a brand of bike he owned. On July 26th 1966, Dylan crashed his 500cc Triumph Tiger 100 - a pivotal moment in his life, that saw him abandon touring for eight years. Some said the accident was faked, or at least exaggerated, to help Dylan drop out of the public eye and the claustrophobia of pop stardom. Either way, he emerged a different person, eventually releasing the magnificent Basement tapes.

The exhibition, Still Working on Maggie’s Farm, opens on Saturday 6 September at Coventry Music Museum, and runs until December.