About Bob Dylan
by xubeck | May 20, 2009 | In Music Artists | 212 Comments
- Birth name: Robert Allen Zimmerman
- Born: May 24, 1941 (1941-05-24) Duluth, Minnesota, U.S.
- Also known as: Elston Gunn[1] Blind Boy Grunt, Lucky Wilbury/Boo Wilbury, Elmer Johnson, Sergei Petrov, Jack Frost, Jack Fate, Willow Scarlet, Robert Milkwood Thomas
- Genre(s): Folk, Rock, Country, Blues
- Occupation(s): Singer-songwriter, author, poet, screenwriter, disc jockey
- Instrument(s) : Vocals, guitar, harmonica, keyboards, piano, bass
- Years active: 1958–present
- Label(s): Columbia, Asylum, SONY BMG
- Associated acts: The Band, Traveling Wilburys, Grateful Dead, Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers
- Home Website: www.bobdylan.com
Bob Dylan was born 24 May 1941 in Duluth, Minnesota, U.S.His father Abe worked for the Standard Oil Company. Six years later the family moved to Hibbing, often the coldest place in the US, where he taught himself piano and guitar and formed several high school rock bands. In 1959 he entered the University of Minnesota and began performing as Bob Dylan at clubs in Minneapolis and St. Paul. The following year he went to New York, performed in Greenwich Village folk clubs, and spent much time in the hospital room of his hero Woody Guthrie. Late in 1961 Columbia signed him to a contract and following year released his first album, containing two original songs. Next year “The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan” appeared, with all original songs including the ’60s anthem “Blowin’ in the Wind.” After several more important acoustic/folk albums, and tours with Joan Baez, he launched into a new electric/acoustic format with 1965’s “Bringing It All Back Home” which, with the Byrd’s cover of his “Mr Tambourine Man,” launched folk-rock. The documentary “Don’t Look Back” was filmed at this time; he broke off his relation with Joan Baez and by the end of the year had married Sara Lowndes. Nearly killed in a motorcycle accident 29 July 1966, withdrew for a time of introspection. After more hard rock performances, his next albums were mostly country. With his career wandering (and critics condemning the fact), Sam Peckinpah asked him to compose the score for, and appear in, his “Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid” – more memorable as a soundtrack than a film. In 1974 he and The Band went on tour, releasing his first number one album, Planet Waves. It was followed a year later by another first-place album, Blood on the Tracks. After several Rolling Thunder tours, the unsuccessful film “Renaldo and Clara” (1978), and a divorce, he stunned the music world again by his release of the fundamentalist Christrian album “Slow Train Coming,” a cut from which won Dylan his first Grammy. Many tours and albums later, on the eve of a European tour May 1997, he was stricken with histoplasmosis (a possibly fatal infection of the heart sac); he recovered and appeared in Rome that September at the request of the Pope. He received the Kennedy Center Award for artistic excellence. He still tours to this today regardless of his age. Bob Dylan is truly a musical legend.
Reviews From Fans :
What to say about bob Dylan. I think that he was one of the most controversial artist of all time. With his music stemming about poltical view, about our world and much more. He changed the standard for music we call “folk rock”, even if he didn’t…
I think that “The Times, They Are A Changin’” is Bob Dylan’s best song. I like his earlier sixties songs the best (Blowin’ In the Wind; Mr. Tambourine Man; Like a Rolling Stone; All Along the Watchtower), his seventies songs were pretty…
I like hurrican the most because it good and he says crazy n word bob dylan well i used to hate him because the only song i used to have was tamberian man and come on thats sounds like a song for five year olds and ya one off musics best…
