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Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan

Dylan in 2010

Birth nameRobert Allen Zimmerman
Also known asElston Gunn, Blind Boy Grunt, Lucky Wilbury/Boo Wilbury, Elmer Johnson, Sergei Petrov, Jack Frost, Jack Fate, Willow Scarlet, Robert Milkwood Thomas.
Born (1941-05-24) May 24, 1941 (age 83)
Duluth, Minnesota, U.S.
GenresFolk, rock, blues, country
Occupation(s)Singer-songwriter, [[writer], poet, artist, actor, screenwriter, disc jockey
InstrumentsVocals, guitar, bass guitar, harmonica, keyboards, accordion, percussion
Years active1959 – present
LabelsColumbia, Asylum
Websitewww.bobdylan.com

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

He was born in 1941 in Minnesota. His parents were from the Russian Empire in what is now Ukraine.[1] As a youth he was a big fan of rock and roll, and formed several bands in high school. However, Dylan first became famous as a folk musician. In 1962, he

Bob Dylan

American singer-songwriter (born 1941)

This article is about the musician. For his debut album, see Bob Dylan (album).

Bob Dylan (legally Robert Dylan;[3] born Robert Allen Zimmerman, May 24, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter. Considered one of the greatest songwriters of all time,[4][5][6] Dylan has been a major figure in popular culture over his 60-year career. With an estimated figure of more than 125 million records sold worldwide, he is one of the best-selling musicians of all-time.[7] Dylan added increasingly sophisticated lyrical techniques to the folk music of the early 1960s, infusing it "with the intellectualism of classic literature and poetry".[6] His lyrics incorporated political, social and philosophical influences, defying pop music conventions and appealing to the burgeoning counterculture.[8]

Dylan was born and raised in St. Louis County, Minnesota, and at 19 years old he moved to New York City to pursue music. Following his 1962 self-titled debut album of traditiona

Chronicles, by Bob Dylan.
Volume 1.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 2004.
MNHS call number: ML420.D9 A3 2004

Dylan: A Biography, by Bob Spitz.
New York: McGraw-Hill, 1989.
MNHS call number: ML420.D9 S6 1989

Dylan in Minnesota: Just Like Bob Zimmerman's Blues, by Dave Engel.
Rudolph, Wis.: River City Memoirs-Mesabi, 1997.
MNHS call number: ML420.D9 E63 1997

Highway 61 Revisited: Bob Dylan's Road from Minnesota to the World, edited by Colleen J. Sheehy and Thomas Swiss.
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2009.
MNHS call number: ML420.D9 H54 2009

Bob Dylan Research Collection, collected by Dennis Anderson.
Bibliographies, magazine articles and book excerpts, syllabi, chronologies, student papers, interviews, correspondence, and fan magazines related to the work of a Bob Dylan scholar who taught seminars on Dylan and American culture at German universities during the 1970s and early 1980s. The collection contains English and German language material and provides both American and European commentary on the life

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