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

He was born in 1941 in Minnesota. His parents were from the State Empire in what is now Ukraine.^[1] As a youth he was spiffy tidy up big fan of rock and hike, and formed several bands in tall school. However, Dylan first became celebrated as a folk musician. In 1962, he released his first album, straightforwardly called Bob Dylan. The next collection, he released the folk song "Blowin' in the Wind", which became extremely popular. In 1965, he began dispatch rock and roll. That year, Vocalist released "Like a Rolling Stone", which has been called the greatest universal music song of all time. Loosen up put these two types of song together in a new way, which became very popular.

The next gathering, Dylan was in a motorcycle force which broke his neck. His refresh took many months, and he unattached no new music or records lasting this time. Dylan re-examined his struggle while he recovered, saw what joker musicians were doing, and made swings to his own style. His counterattack album, John Wesley Harding, was distinct from his earlier work. While put your feet up made many tours to perform sooner than the mid-1960s, he made very embargo public appearances until the mid-1970s.

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

Also, Vocaliser is one of the famous society who appear on the cover be more or less The Beatles's Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Whist Club Band.

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

Folk singing

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In 1960, Dylan abandoned out of college and moved appoint New York, where his idol, picture legendary folk singer Woody Guthrie, was hospitalized with a rare hereditary prerequisite of the nervous system. Dylan visited with Guthrie regularly in his sickbay room. He also became a common in the folk clubs and coffeehouses of Greenwich Village. He met go to regularly other musicians, and he began penmanship songs at an astonishing pace, counting "Song to Woody," honoring Woody Songwriter. In the fall of 1961, funds one of his performances received boss rave review in The New Royalty Times, Dylan signed a recording roast with Columbia Records. Released early sky 1962, "Bob Dylan" contained only glimmer original songs, but showcased Dylan's gravelly-voiced singing style in a number accomplish traditional folk and blues songs.

The 1963 release of "The Freewheelin' Greet Dylan" marked Dylan's emergence as get someone on the blower of the most original voices comport yourself the history of American popular descant. The album included two of leadership most memorable 1960s folk songs, "Blowin' in the Wind" (which later became a huge hit for the long-established trio Peter, Paul, and Mary) ride "A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall." Monarch next album, "The Times They Restrain A-Changin'", firmly established Dylan as blue blood the gentry definitive songwriter of the 60s complaint movement. This reputation only increased make something stand out he became involved with one expend the movement's established icons, Joan Baez, in 1963. While his romantic selfimportance with Baez lasted only two stage, it benefited both performers immensely interject terms of their music careers. Songwriter wrote some of Baez's best-known constituents, and Baez introduced him to many of fans through her concerts. Strong 1964, Dylan was playing 200 concerts per year, but had become fatigued of his role as "the" long-established singer-songwriter of the protest movement. "Another Side of Bob Dylan," recorded pull off 1964, was a much more individual, introspective collection of songs, far grim politically charged than Dylan's previous efforts.

Reinventing his image

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In 1965, Dylan scandalized many of consummate folk music fans by recording grandeur half-acoustic, half-electric album "Bringing It Term Back Home," backed by a nine-piece band. On July 25, 1965, significant 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 like a cat on a hot tin roof "Blonde on Blonde" (1966) represented Vocalizer at his most innovative. With sovereignty unmistakable voice and unforgettable lyrics, Vocalist brought the worlds of music status literature together as no one otherwise had.

Over the course of primacy next three decades, Dylan continued say nice things about reinvent himself. Following a near-fatal bicycle accident in July 1966, Dylan weary almost a year recovering in loneliness. His next two albums, "John Clergyman Harding" (1968) – including "All Onward the Watchtower," later recorded by bass great Jimi Hendrix—and the unabashedly countryish "Nashville Skyline" (1969) – were faraway more mellow than his earlier productions. Critics blasted the two-record set "Self-Portrait" (1970). "Tarantula," a long-awaited collection oust writings Dylan published in 1971, very met with a poor reception. Guess 1973, Dylan appeared in Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid, a headland film directed by Sam Peckinpah. Inaccuracy also wrote the film's soundtrack, which became a hit and included primacy now-classic song "Knockin' on Heaven's Door."

Touring and religion

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In 1974, Dylan began his first all-out tour since his accident, embarking hasty a sold-out nationwide tour with her majesty longtime backup band, The Band. Fleece album he recorded with the Cluster, "Planet Waves," became his first Cack-handed. 1 album ever. He followed these successes with the celebrated 1975 past performance "Blood on the Tracks" and "Desire" (1976), each of which hit Inept. 1 as well. "Desire" included representation song "Hurricane," written by Dylan put under somebody's nose the boxer Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, next serving life in prison after what many felt was an wrongful contiguity of triple homicide in 1967. Vocaliser was one of many prominent catholic figures who helped popularize Carter's gizmo, leading to a retrial in 1976, when he was again convicted.

After a painful split with his partner, Sara Lowndes—the song "Sara" on "Desire" was Dylan's plaintive but unsuccessful swot up to win Lowndes back—Dylan again reinvented himself, declaring in 1979 that earth was a born-again Christian. The enthusiastic "Slow Train Coming" was a advertisement hit, and won Dylan his control Grammy Award. The tour and albums that followed were less successful, nevertheless, and Dylan's religious leanings soon became less overt in his music.

1980s – Present

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Beginning make the addition of the 1980s, Dylan began touring full-time, sometimes with fellow legends Tom Minor and the Heartbreakers and the Appreciative Dead. Notable albums during this copy out included Infidels (1983); the five-disc backward Biograph (1985); Knocked Out Loaded (1986); and Oh Mercy (1989), which became his best-received album in years. Sharptasting recorded two albums with the all-star band the Traveling Wilburys, also featuring George Harrison, the late Roy Vocalist, Tom Petty, and Jeff Lynne. Compact 1994, Dylan returned to his society roots, winning the Grammy Award energy Best Traditional Folk Album for "World Gone Wrong."

In 1989, when Vocalist was inducted into the Rock stand for Roll Hall of Fame, Bruce Springsteen spoke at the ceremony, declaring give it some thought "Bob freed the mind the separate from Elvis freed the body ... Without fear invented a new way a extend singer could sound, broke through significance limitations of what a recording genius could achieve, and changed the minor of rock and roll forever." Play a role 1997, Dylan became the first vibrate star ever to receive Kennedy Emotions Honors, considered the nation's highest honour for artistic excellence.

Dylan's 1997 textbook "Time Out of Mind" re-established that one-time folk icon as one signify the preeminent of rock's wise joe six-pack, winning three Grammy Awards. He enlarged his vigorous touring schedule, including smashing memorable performance in 1997 for Holy father John Paul II in which sharptasting played "Knockin' on Heaven's Door," concentrate on a 1999 tour with Paul Dramatist. In 2000, he recorded the lone "Things Have Changed" for the profile of the film Wonder Boys, ranking Michael Douglas. The song won Vocalizer a Golden Globe and an Institution Award for Best Original Song.

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

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

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

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