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American singer-songwriter (born 1941) the musician|his debut album|Bob Dylan (album)!''Bob Dylan'' (album) pp-move|small=yes pp-vandalism|small=yes Featured article Use American English October 2024 Use mdy dates October 2024 Infobox person | name = Bob Dylan | image = DylanYoungKilkenny140719v2 (50 of 52) (52246124397) (cropped).jpg | caption = Dylan in 2019 | alt = Bob Dylan standing on stage | birth_name = Robert Allen Zimmerman | other_names = Flatlist| * Shabtai Zisel ben Avraham (Hebrew name) * Elston Gunnn * Blind Boy Grunt * Bob Landy * Robert Milkwood Thomas * Tedham Porterhouse * Traveling Wilburys|Lucky Wilbury * Traveling Wilburys|Boo Wilbury * Jack Frost * Sergei Petrov * Zimmy | birth_date = Birth date and age|1941/5/24 | birth_place = Duluth, Minnesota, U.S. | years_active = 1957–presentcite web| url = https://www.allmusic.com/artist/bob-dylan-mn0000066915/biography| title = Bob Dylan biography| author = Erlewine, Stephen Thomas| author-link=Stephen Thomas Erlewine|date = December 12, 2019| access-date = January 6, 2020| website=AllMusic | occupation = Flatlist| * Singer-songwriter * painter * writer | spouse = Plainlist| * Marriage|Sara Dylan|Sara Lownds|November 22, 1965|June 29, 1977|reason=divorced * Marriage|Carolyn Dennis|June 4, 1986|October 1992|reason=divorced | children = 6, including Jesse Dylan|Jesse and Jakob Dylan|Jakob | awards = Plainlist| * 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature * (for others, see List of awards and nominations received by Bob Dylan|list) | signature = Bob Dylan signature.svg | signature_size = 90px | module = Infobox musical artist | embed = yes | discography = hlist|Bob Dylan discography Albums and singles|List of songs written by Bob Dylan|songs|Bob Dylan bootleg recordings|bootleg recordings | genre = Flatlist| * Contemporary folk music|Folk * blues * Rock music|rock * Gospel music|gospel * Country music|country * traditional pop * jazz | instruments = Flatlist| * Vocals * guitar * harmonica * keyboards | label = Flatlist| * Columbia Records|Columbia * Asylum Records|Asylum | website = URL|bobdylan.com ''Bob Dylan'' (legally ''Robert Dylan'';His legal name, Robert Dylan, is enumerated in the following sources: *cite book|ref=none|last1=Dunn |first1=Tim The Bob Dylan Copyright Files 1962–2007 2008 AuthorHouse|isbn=9781438915890 https://books.google.com/books?id=CbJJLXdF0N4C&pg=PA267 *cite book|ref=none|last1=Bell |first1=Ian Once Upon a Time: The Lives of Bob Dylan 2013 Open Road Media |isbn=9781480447509 https://books.google.com/books?id=lXR5AAAAQBAJ&pg=PT324 |quote=Bob Dylan — as a matter of legal record, 'Robert Dylan' ... *cite book|ref=none|last1=Rowley |first1=Chris Blood on the Tracks: The Story of Bob Dylan 1984 Proteus Books |location=London |isbn=9780862761271 |page=136 |quote=The petition for divorce stated that the "respondent, Robert Dylan ... " born ''Robert Allen Zimmerman'', May 24, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter. Considered one of the greatest songwriters of all time,Cite news May 23, 2001 Dylan 'the greatest songwriter'|language=en-GB http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/1347071.stm BBC News January 1, 2022cite magazine| url=https://www.rollingstone.com/interactive/lists-100-greatest-songwriters/#bob-dylan| title=No. 1 Bob Dylan| date=April 10, 2020| access-date=January 29, 2021| magazine=Rolling Stone 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 List of best-selling music artists|best-selling musicians of all-time.cite web| url = https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/pop-culture-news/bob-dylan-sells-entire-catalog-recorded-music-sony-music-rcna13434| title = Bob Dylan sells his entire catalog of recorded music to Sony| author = Lenthang, Marlene| date = January 25, 2022| access-date = June 11, 2024 NBC News Dylan added increasingly sophisticated lyrical techniques to the folk music of the early 1960s, infusing it "with the intellectualism of classic literature and poetry". His lyrics incorporated political, social and philosophical influences, defying pop music conventions and appealing to the burgeoning Counterculture of the 1960s|counterculture."The Counterculture" by Michael J. Kramer in Latham, Sean (ed., 2021, ''The World of Bob Dylan'', pp. 251–263. Dylan was born and raised in St. Louis County, Minnesota, and at 20 years old he moved to New York City to pursue music. Following his Bob Dylan (album)|1962 self-titled debut album of traditional Folk-songs|folk songs, he released his breakthrough album ''The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan'' (1963) which featured "Girl from the North Country" and "A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall", adapting the tunes and phrasing of older folk songs. His songs "Blowin' in the Wind" (1963) and "The Times They Are a-Changin' (song)|The Times They Are a-Changin'-" (1964) became anthems for the civil rights movement|civil rights and Opposition to United States involvement in the Vietnam War|antiwar movements. In 1965 and 1966, Dylan Electric Dylan controversy|drew controversy among folk purists when he adopted Amplifier|electrically amplified rock instrumentation, recording the rock albums ''Bringing It All Back Home'', ''Highway 61 Revisited'' (both 1965) and ''Blonde on Blonde'' (1966). His six-minute single "Like a Rolling Stone" (1965) expanded commercial and creative boundaries in popular music.cite magazine| url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/the-500-greatest-songs-of-all-time-20110407/bob-dylan-like-a-rolling-stone-20110516| title=500 Greatest Songs Of All Time| date=April 7, 2011| access-date=January 6, 2020|magazine=Rolling Stone| archive-date=October 31, 2019| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191031103816/http://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/500-greatest-songs-of-all-time-151127/bob-dylan-like-a-rolling-stone-2-54028/livecite web| last=Rogovoy Seth| title=How Bob Dylan's greatest song changed music history — a deep-dive into an accidental masterpiece| url=https://forward.com/culture/475865/how-bob-dylans-greatest-song-changed-music-history-a-deep-dive-into-an/| date=September 27, 2021| access-date=September 30, 2021| url-status=live| archive-date=September 28, 2021| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210928170718/https://forward.com/culture/475865/how-bob-dylans-greatest-song-changed-music-history-a-deep-dive-into-an/| quote=Bruce Springsteen, who was originally touted as a 'new Dylan' when he was signed to Columbia Records, Dylan's label, by the same label honcho, John Hammond, who signed Dylan, said this about 'Like a Rolling Stone':
'Dylan freed your mind and showed us that because the music was physical did not mean it was anti-intellect. He had the vision and talent to make a pop song so that it contained the whole world. He invented a new way a pop singer could sound, broke through the limitations of what a recording could achieve, and he changed the face of rock 'n' roll for ever and ever.'| publisher=The Forward In July 1966, a motorcycle crash led Dylan to cease touring for seven years. During this period, he recorded List of Basement Tapes songs| a large body of songs with members of the Band which produced the album ''The Basement Tapes'' (1975). Dylan explored country music and rural themes on the albums ''John Wesley Harding'' (1967, ''Nashville Skyline'' (1969) and ''New Morning'' (1970). He gained critical attention for ''Blood on the Tracks'' (1975, and Time Out of Mind (Bob Dylan album)|''Time Out of Mind'' (1997, the latter of which earned him the Grammy Award for Album of the Year. Dylan still releases music and has toured continuously since the late 1980s on what has become known as the Never Ending Tour.Heylin, Clinton, 2011, ''Bob Dylan: Behind The Shades, The 20th Anniversary Edition'', pp. 646–652. Since 1994, Dylan has published Bob Dylan bibliography#Art books by Bob Dylan|nine books of paintings and drawings, and his work has been exhibited in major art galleries. His life has been profiled in several documentaries and the biopic ''A Complete Unknown'' (2024). Dylan has received List of awards received by Bob Dylan|numerous accolades throughout his career, including an Academy Award, ten Grammy Awards and a Golden Globe Award. He was honored with the Kennedy Center Honors in 1997, National Medal of Arts in 2009, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2012. Dylan has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame and the Songwriters Hall of Fame. He has also been awarded a Pulitzer Prize Special Citations and Awards|Pulitzer Prize special citation in 2008, and the 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature "for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition." cite web| url = https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/2016/summary/| title = The Nobel Prize in Literature 2016| date = October 13, 2016| access-date = January 1, 2025 nobelprize.org
'Dylan freed your mind and showed us that because the music was physical did not mean it was anti-intellect. He had the vision and talent to make a pop song so that it contained the whole world. He invented a new way a pop singer could sound, broke through the limitations of what a recording could achieve, and he changed the face of rock 'n' roll for ever and ever.'| publisher=The Forward In July 1966, a motorcycle crash led Dylan to cease touring for seven years. During this period, he recorded List of Basement Tapes songs| a large body of songs with members of the Band which produced the album ''The Basement Tapes'' (1975). Dylan explored country music and rural themes on the albums ''John Wesley Harding'' (1967, ''Nashville Skyline'' (1969) and ''New Morning'' (1970). He gained critical attention for ''Blood on the Tracks'' (1975, and Time Out of Mind (Bob Dylan album)|''Time Out of Mind'' (1997, the latter of which earned him the Grammy Award for Album of the Year. Dylan still releases music and has toured continuously since the late 1980s on what has become known as the Never Ending Tour.Heylin, Clinton, 2011, ''Bob Dylan: Behind The Shades, The 20th Anniversary Edition'', pp. 646–652. Since 1994, Dylan has published Bob Dylan bibliography#Art books by Bob Dylan|nine books of paintings and drawings, and his work has been exhibited in major art galleries. His life has been profiled in several documentaries and the biopic ''A Complete Unknown'' (2024). Dylan has received List of awards received by Bob Dylan|numerous accolades throughout his career, including an Academy Award, ten Grammy Awards and a Golden Globe Award. He was honored with the Kennedy Center Honors in 1997, National Medal of Arts in 2009, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2012. Dylan has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame and the Songwriters Hall of Fame. He has also been awarded a Pulitzer Prize Special Citations and Awards|Pulitzer Prize special citation in 2008, and the 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature "for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition." cite web| url = https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/2016/summary/| title = The Nobel Prize in Literature 2016| date = October 13, 2016| access-date = January 1, 2025 nobelprize.org