
Bob Dylan has been making some youthful updates to his 1970s Malibu mansion - including adding a trampoline to his backyard, as seen in exclusive DailyMail.com aerial photos of his estate.

The notoriously private 77-year-old purchased the home for just $105,000 in 1979 and has since scooped up surrounding properties - turning it into a compound with the main home sprawling 6,000 square feet with six bedrooms and seven bathrooms.

It seems even the music legend realizes that times are a-changing and is renovating the roof and installed solar panels, a trampoline, a basketball court, as well updated the outdoor pool with rock features.

But Dylan has kept to his folk roots and has a quaint, rickety wood paneled cabin on his estate, with a small boat dumped in the backyard.

Dylan is known to have six children, including with first wife Sara Lownds and his secret wife Carolyn Dennis, and has several grandchildren, who are said to spend time with him over the summer at his Malibu home.

Bob Dylan has been making some youthful updates to his 1970s Malibu mansion - including adding a trampoline to his backyard, as seen in exclusive DailyMail.com aerial photos of his estate

It seems even the music legend realizes that times are a-changing and is renovating the roof and has installed solar panels, a trampoline (pictured), a basketball court, as well updated the outdoor pool with rock features

But Dylan has kept to his folk roots and has a quaint, rickety wood paneled cabin on his estate, with a small boat dumped in the backyard

The private 77-year-old purchased the home for just $105,000 in 1979 and has since scooped up surrounding property - turning it into a compound with the main home sprawling 6,000 square feet with six bedrooms and seven bathrooms

The Malibu home is Dylan's principal residence and was modified to his specifications. At the center of the house is a circular room beneath a copper dome

Since Dylan (pictured in 2017) is regularly away on tour, a team of security and staff are constantly on hand to help maintain the sprawling estate

Horses and dogs roam the vast property, which is set back from the Pacific Ocean and accessed via a long winding dirt track.

The compound seems to be in a constant state of construction, with large Pod containers outside a building, a massive dump site and work trucks parked in the driveway.

Since Dylan is regularly away on tour, a team of security and staff are constantly on hand to help maintain the sprawling estate.

Over the years, Dylan's neighbors have complained to city officials about the smells coming from an outdoor portable toilet, which is apparently used by guards on Dylan's compound.

One family claimed the lavatory's waste treatment chemicals were being carried straight to their house - making them feel ill.

When an official from LA County tried to get on to his property to take a look, he was told that the singer would sue for trespassing.

The Malibu home is Dylan's principal residence and was modified to his specifications. At the center of the house is a circular room beneath a copper dome.

The house is built on a large plot of land and because of buying up the surrounding properties around it over the years, Dylan has an enormous amount of privacy.

Dylan is alone there - aside from his security men - most of the time when he isn't touring. The singer-songwriter has a month off in the summer, which he spends with his children and grandchildren there

The singer has a half-sized basketball court on the estate. Dylan, a notorious womanizer, is known to have six children, including with first wife Sara Lownds and his secret wife Carolyn Dennis, and several grandchildren, who are said to spend time with him over the summer

A water tower sits on the property

Over the years, Dylan's neighbors have complained to city officials about the smells coming from an outdoor portable toilet, which is apparently used by guards on Dylan's compound

Horses and dogs roam the vast property, which is set back from the Pacific Ocean and accessed via a long winding dirt track

Dylan is alone there - aside from his security men - most of the time when he isn't touring. The singer-songwriter has a month off in the summer, which he spends with his children and grandchildren there.

Visitors to any of his homes are routinely told that they are at the wrong address for him. 'Like all famous people, I would like to be left alone,' he once sighed.

Howard Sounes, author of the respected Dylan biography Down The Highway, said of the home: 'He has a car suspended from the ceiling in the living room, which was one of his first cars. And although there are 11 rooms, I believe he lives in only one of them.'

One lover, Susan Ross, who was with Dylan for a dozen years from the mid 1980s, asked him why they could not live together. 'Because I can barely live with myself,' he replied.

Ross, who only got to visit the Malibu house after they had been together for five years, says it is like a ski chalet in decor.

When she went for her one and only visit, Dylan would not allow her to sleep in his bedroom and sent her - alone - to a guest room instead.

The house is built on a large plot of land and because of buying up the surrounding properties over the years, Dylan has an enormous amount of privacy

Howard Sounes, author of the respected Dylan biography Down The Highway, said of the home: 'He has a car suspended from the ceiling in the living room, which was one of his first cars. And although there are 11 rooms, I believe he lives in only one of them'

Visitors to any of his homes are routinely told that they are at the wrong address for him. 'Like all famous people, I would like to be left alone,' he once sighed