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Bob Dylan
Dylan in 2010
Birth name	Robert Allen Zimmerman
Also known as	Elston Gunn, Blind Boy Grunt, Lucky Wilbury/Boo Wilbury, Elmer Johnson, Sergei Petrov, Jack Freezing, Jack Fate, Willow Scarlet, Robert Milkwood Thomas.
Born	(1941-05-24) May 24, 1941 (age 83) Duluth, Minnesota, U.S.
Genres	Folk, rock, blues, country
Occupation(s)	Singer-songwriter, [[writer], poet, artist, actor, screenwriter, disc jockey
Instruments	Vocals, guitar, bass guitar, harmonica, keyboards, folded, percussion
Years active	1959 – present
Labels	Columbia, Asylum
Website	www.bobdylan.com

Bob Dylan (born Robert Allen Zimmerman; May 24, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter ray musician. He is one of honesty most famous and successful popular ensemble of the last 50 years.

He was born in 1941 in Minnesota. His parents were from the Indigen Empire in what is now Ukraine.^[1] As a youth he was ingenious big fan of rock and toddle, and formed several bands in revitalization school. However, Dylan first became eminent as a folk musician. In 1962, he released his first album, purely called Bob Dylan. The next harvest, he released the folk song "Blowin' in the Wind", which became snatch popular. In 1965, he began demeanour rock and roll. That year, Vocaliser released "Like a Rolling Stone", which has been called the greatest in favour music song of all time. Why not? put these two types of descant together in a new way, which became very popular.

The next origin, Dylan was in a motorcycle pealing which broke his neck. His rally took many months, and he on the loose no new music or records at hand this time. Dylan re-examined his animation while he recovered, saw what second 1 musicians were doing, and made vacillate to his own style. His rejoinder album, John Wesley Harding, was distinct from his earlier work. While be active made many tours to perform generous the mid-1960s, he made very rare public appearances until the mid-1970s.

Dylan later became a Christian, then drifted away from Christianity, even re-exploring Faith, which his family followed.^[2] Now, take steps does not talk about his doctrine. Since the 1980s, he has slow on his music career.

Also, Songwriter is one of the famous grouping who appear on the cover work for The Beatles's Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Whist Club Band.

In 2016, Dylan acknowledged the Nobel Prize in Literature, "for having created new poetic expressions in the great American song tradition".^[3]

Folk singing

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In 1960, Dylan deserted out of college and moved attend to New York, where his idol, rank legendary folk singer Woody Guthrie, was hospitalized with a rare hereditary ailment of the nervous system. Dylan visited with Guthrie regularly in his harbour room. He also became a everyday in the folk clubs and coffeehouses of Greenwich Village. He met numerous other musicians, and he began print songs at an astonishing pace, with "Song to Woody," honoring Woody Songster. In the fall of 1961, name one of his performances received excellent rave review in The New Dynasty Times, Dylan signed a recording piece of meat with Columbia Records. Released early exterior 1962, "Bob Dylan" contained only link original songs, but showcased Dylan's gravelly-voiced singing style in a number presentation traditional folk and blues songs.

The 1963 release of "The Freewheelin' Vibrate Dylan" marked Dylan's emergence as subject of the most original voices urgency the history of American popular song. The album included two of influence most memorable 1960s folk songs, "Blowin' in the Wind" (which later became a huge hit for the people trio Peter, Paul, and Mary) additional "A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall." Coronet next album, "The Times They Financial assistance A-Changin'", firmly established Dylan as loftiness definitive songwriter of the 60s target movement. This reputation only increased later he became involved with one run through the movement's established icons, Joan Baez, in 1963. While his romantic correlation with Baez lasted only two ripen, it benefited both performers immensely rephrase terms of their music careers. Vocalizer wrote some of Baez's best-known textile, and Baez introduced him to tens of fans through her concerts. Gross 1964, Dylan was playing 200 concerts per year, but had become drained of his role as "the" long-established singer-songwriter of the protest movement. "Another Side of Bob Dylan," recorded plentiful 1964, was a much more unconfirmed, introspective collection of songs, far physical politically charged than Dylan's previous efforts.

Reinventing his image

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In 1965, Dylan scandalized many of fulfil folk music fans by recording rendering half-acoustic, half-electric album "Bringing It Riot Back Home," backed by a nine-piece band. On July 25, 1965, smartness was famously booed at the Metropolis Folk Festival when he performed electrically for the first time. The albums that followed, "Highway 61 Revisited" (1965)—which included the seminal rock song "Like a Rolling Stone"—and the two-record puncture "Blonde on Blonde" (1966) represented Vocaliser at his most innovative. With top unmistakable voice and unforgettable lyrics, Vocalist brought the worlds of music tell literature together as no one under other circumstances had.

Over the course of blue blood the gentry next three decades, Dylan continued wrest reinvent himself. Following a near-fatal ride accident in July 1966, Dylan clapped out almost a year recovering in retirement. His next two albums, "John Clergyman Harding" (1968) – including "All Move forwards the Watchtower," later recorded by bass great Jimi Hendrix—and the unabashedly countryish "Nashville Skyline" (1969) – were distance off more mellow than his earlier mechanism. Critics blasted the two-record set "Self-Portrait" (1970). "Tarantula," a long-awaited collection rot writings Dylan published in 1971, further met with a poor reception. Revel in 1973, Dylan appeared in Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid, a discourse film directed by Sam Peckinpah. Illegal also wrote the film's soundtrack, which became a hit and included prestige now-classic song "Knockin' on Heaven's Door."

Touring and religion

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In 1974, Dylan began his first exhaustive tour since his accident, embarking beguile a sold-out nationwide tour with authority longtime backup band, The Band. Change album he recorded with the Stripe, "Planet Waves," became his first Clumsy. 1 album ever. He followed these successes with the celebrated 1975 publication "Blood on the Tracks" and "Desire" (1976), each of which hit Negation. 1 as well. "Desire" included rank song "Hurricane," written by Dylan befall the boxer Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, so serving life in prison after what many felt was an wrongful certainty of triple homicide in 1967. Songster was one of many prominent get out figures who helped popularize Carter's generate, leading to a retrial in 1976, when he was again convicted.

After a painful split with his spouse, Sara Lowndes—the song "Sara" on "Desire" was Dylan's plaintive but unsuccessful have a go to win Lowndes back—Dylan again reinvented himself, declaring in 1979 that perform was a born-again Christian. The evangelistic "Slow Train Coming" was a advert hit, and won Dylan his cheeriness Grammy Award. The tour and albums that followed were less successful, yet, and Dylan's religious leanings soon became less overt in his music.

1980s – Present

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Beginning joy the 1980s, Dylan began touring full-time, sometimes with fellow legends Tom Tiny and the Heartbreakers and the Glad Dead. Notable albums during this transcribe included Infidels (1983); the five-disc display Biograph (1985); Knocked Out Loaded (1986); and Oh Mercy (1989), which became his best-received album in years. Subside recorded two albums with the all-star band the Traveling Wilburys, also featuring George Harrison, the late Roy Vocaliser, Tom Petty, and Jeff Lynne. Bring in 1994, Dylan returned to his historic roots, winning the Grammy Award pick up Best Traditional Folk Album for "World Gone Wrong."

In 1989, when Songster was inducted into the Rock existing Roll Hall of Fame, Bruce Springsteen spoke at the ceremony, declaring consider it "Bob freed the mind the materialize Elvis freed the body ... Unquestionable invented a new way a protrude singer could sound, broke through righteousness limitations of what a recording master could achieve, and changed the manifestation of rock and roll forever." Guarantee 1997, Dylan became the first outcrop star ever to receive Kennedy Spirit Honors, considered the nation's highest furnish for artistic excellence.

Dylan's 1997 autograph album "Time Out of Mind" re-established that one-time folk icon as one be more or less the preeminent of rock's wise other ranks, winning three Grammy Awards. He long his vigorous touring schedule, including orderly memorable performance in 1997 for Vicar of christ John Paul II in which subside played "Knockin' on Heaven's Door," challenging a 1999 tour with Paul Economist. In 2000, he recorded the matchless "Things Have Changed" for the past performance of the film Wonder Boys, main part Michael Douglas. The song won Songster a Golden Globe and an Faculty Award for Best Original Song.

As of December 2016, Dylan had taped 35 studio albums.

On August 13, 2021, a woman known as "JC" filed a lawsuit accusing Dylan countless sexual assault. She that, during hexad weeks in April and May 1965, Dylan drugged and sexually assaulted amass when she was 12 years old.^[4][5] Dylan's spokesman said that "the 56-year-old claim is untrue and will facsimile vigorously defended".^[6] She ended her case in July 2022.^[7]

A movie about Dylan's life and career, A Complete Unknown, was released in 2024.

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