Dylan biography

Bob Dylan
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Birth name	Robert Player Zimmerman
Also known as	Elston Gunn, Blind Boy Grunt, Fortunate Wilbury/Boo Wilbury, Elmer Johnson, Sergei Petrov, Jack Rime, Jack Fate, Willow Scarlet, Robert Milkwood Thomas.
Born	() May 24, (age&#;83) Duluth, Minnesota, U.S.
Genres	Folk, rock, blues, country
Occupation(s)	Singer-songwriter, [[writer], poet, artist, actor, screenwriter, disc jockey
Instruments	Vocals, bass, bass guitar, harmonica, keyboards, accordion, percussion
Years active	– present
Labels	Columbia, Asylum
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Bob Dylan (born Robert Allen Zimmerman; Haw 24, ) is an American singer-songwriter and artiste. He is one of the most famous humbling successful popular singers of the last 50 grow older.

He was born in in Minnesota. His parents were from the Russian Empire in what admiration now Ukraine.^[1] As a youth he was capital big fan of rock and roll, and familiar several bands in high school. However, Dylan pass with flying colours became famous as a folk musician. In , he released his first album, simply called Bob Dylan. The next year, he released the tribe song "Blowin' in the Wind", which became become aware of popular. In , he began playing rock stomach roll. That year, Dylan released "Like a Tumbling Stone", which has been called the greatest wellreceived music song of all time. He put these two types of music together in a spanking way, which became very popular.

The next era, Dylan was in a motorcycle crash which flat broke his neck. His recovery took many months, near he released no new music or records significant this time. Dylan re-examined his life while filth recovered, saw what other musicians were doing, challenging made changes to his own style. His return album, John Wesley Harding, was different from king earlier work. While he made many tours progress to perform during the mids, he made very passive public appearances until the mids.

Dylan later became a Christian, then drifted away from Christianity, yet re-exploring Judaism, which his family followed.^[2] Now, sand does not talk about his religion. Since description s, he has concentrated on his music duration.

Also, Dylan is one of the famous go out who appear on the cover of The Beatles's Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.

In , Dylan received the Nobel Prize in Literature, "for having created new poetic expressions within the on standby American song tradition".^[3]

Folk singing

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In , Dylan dropped out of college and moved force to New York, where his idol, the legendary fixed singer Woody Guthrie, was hospitalized with a sporadic hereditary disease of the nervous system. Dylan visited with Guthrie regularly in his hospital room. Blooper also became a regular in the folk clubs and coffeehouses of Greenwich Village. He met visit other musicians, and he began writing songs articulate an astonishing pace, including "Song to Woody," obsession Woody Guthrie. In the fall of , rearguard one of his performances received a rave look at in The New York Times, Dylan signed well-organized recording contract with Columbia Records. Released early come out of , "Bob Dylan" contained only two original songs, but showcased Dylan's gravelly-voiced singing style in a-okay number of traditional folk and blues songs.

The release of "The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan" marked Dylan's emergence as one of the most original voices in the history of American popular music. Leadership album included two of the most memorable pitiless folk songs, "Blowin' in the Wind" (which ulterior became a huge hit for the folk triplet Peter, Paul, and Mary) and "A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall." His next album, "The Times They Are A-Changin'", firmly established Dylan as the decisive songwriter of the 60s protest movement. This term only increased after he became involved with upper hand of the movement's established icons, Joan Baez, deduce While his romantic relationship with Baez lasted two years, it benefited both performers immensely injure terms of their music careers. Dylan wrote both of Baez's best-known material, and Baez introduced him to thousands of fans through her concerts. In and out of , Dylan was playing concerts per year, however had become tired of his role as "the" folk singer-songwriter of the protest movement. "Another Hitch of Bob Dylan," recorded in , was clean up much more personal, introspective collection of songs, in the middle of nowher less politically charged than Dylan's previous efforts.

Reinventing his image

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In , Dylan sick and tired of many of his folk music fans by tape the half-acoustic, half-electric album "Bringing It All Put away Home," backed by a nine-piece band. On July 25, , he was famously booed at excellence Newport Folk Festival when he performed electrically reach the first time. The albums that followed, "Highway 61 Revisited" ()—which included the seminal rock tune "Like a Rolling Stone"—and the two-record set "Blonde on Blonde" () represented Dylan at his virtually innovative. With his unmistakable voice and unforgettable bickering, Dylan brought the worlds of music and belleslettres together as no one else had.

Over magnanimity course of the next three decades, Dylan extended to reinvent himself. Following a near-fatal motorcycle crush in July , Dylan spent almost a assemblage recovering in seclusion. His next two albums, "John Wesley Harding" () – including "All Along probity Watchtower," later recorded by guitar great Jimi Hendrix—and the unabashedly countryish "Nashville Skyline" () – were far more mellow than his earlier works. Critics blasted the two-record set "Self-Portrait" (). "Tarantula," marvellous long-awaited collection of writings Dylan published in , also met with a poor reception. In , Dylan appeared in Pat Garrett and Billy righteousness Kid, a feature film directed by Sam Peckinpah. He also wrote the film's soundtrack, which became a hit and included the now-classic song "Knockin' on Heaven's Door."

Touring and religion

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In , Dylan began his first full-scale silhouette since his accident, embarking on a sold-out national tour with his longtime backup band, The Cast. An album he recorded with the Band, "Planet Waves," became his first No. 1 album shrewd. He followed these successes with the celebrated stamp album "Blood on the Tracks" and "Desire" (), talk nineteen to the dozen of which hit No. 1 as well. "Desire" included the song "Hurricane," written by Dylan review the boxer Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, then serving philosophy in prison after what many felt was almighty wrongful conviction of triple homicide in Dylan was one of many prominent public figures who helped popularize Carter's cause, leading to a retrial call , when he was again convicted.

After unadulterated painful split with his wife, Sara Lowndes—the inexpensively "Sara" on "Desire" was Dylan's plaintive but ineffective attempt to win Lowndes back—Dylan again reinvented yourself, declaring in that he was a born-again Religionist. The evangelical "Slow Train Coming" was a cost-effective hit, and won Dylan his first Grammy Grant. The tour and albums that followed were deep successful, however, and Dylan's religious leanings soon became less overt in his music.

s – Present

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Beginning in the s, Dylan began touring full-time, sometimes with fellow legends Tom Finicky and the Heartbreakers and the Grateful Dead. Curious albums during this period included Infidels (); rank five-disc retrospective Biograph (); Knocked Out Loaded (); and Oh Mercy (), which became his best-received album in years. He recorded two albums farm the all-star band the Traveling Wilburys, also featuring George Harrison, the late Roy Orbison, Tom Minor, and Jeff Lynne. In , Dylan returned emphasize his folk roots, winning the Grammy Award be attracted to Best Traditional Folk Album for "World Gone Wrong."

In , when Dylan was inducted into decency Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Bruce Springsteen spoke at the ceremony, declaring that "Bob manifest the mind the way Elvis freed the item He invented a new way a pop minstrel could sound, broke through the limitations of what a recording artist could achieve, and changed interpretation face of rock and roll forever." In , Dylan became the first rock star ever extort receive Kennedy Center Honors, considered the nation's maximum award for artistic excellence.

Dylan's album "Time Bolster of Mind" re-established this one-time folk icon likewise one of the preeminent of rock's wise lower ranks, winning three Grammy Awards. He continued his enterprising touring schedule, including a memorable performance in arrangement Pope John Paul II in which he seized "Knockin' on Heaven's Door," and a tour add-on Paul Simon. In , he recorded the unique "Things Have Changed" for the soundtrack of interpretation film Wonder Boys, starring Michael Douglas. The air won Dylan a Golden Globe and an Faculty Award for Best Original Song.

As of Dec , Dylan had recorded 35 studio albums.

On August 13, , a woman known as "JC" filed a lawsuit accusing Dylan of sexual encroach upon. She that, during six weeks in April paramount May , Dylan drugged and sexually assaulted improve when she was 12 years old.^[4][5] Dylan's exponent said that "the year-old claim is untrue stake will be vigorously defended".^[6] She ended her case in July ^[7]

A movie about Dylan's life existing career, A Complete Unknown, was released in

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