Robert Allen Zimmerman (Bob Dylan)

ROBERT ALLEN ZIMMERMAN
(BOB DYLAN)
BOB DYLAN
• Other names : Shabtai Zisel ben Avraham

(Hebrew name)
• Born : May 24, 1941 (age 79 years)
• Occupation: Singer-songwriter,artist,
writer & activist.
• Education: attended university of
Minnesota (at the end of his first year in
college he quit school)
• Awards : Nobel Prize in Literature
EARLY LIFE
Bob Dylan was raised in Hibbing, Minnesota,
on the Mesabi Range west of Lake Superior.
They lived in Duluth until Dylan was six, when
his father contracted polio and the family
returned to his mother's hometown, Hibbing,
where they lived for the rest of Dylan's
childhood, where Bob grew up in a small jewish
community.
Living at the Jewish-centric,he became
involved in the Dinkytown folk music
circuit. During this period,he began introducing
himself as "Bob Dylan
BOB DYLAN family home in Hibbing, Minnesota

MUSICAL CAREER BEGINNING
Bob affection towards music was since his school life.
Dylan formed several bands while attending Hibbing High School. In the Golden
Chords, he performed covers of songs by Little Richard and Elvis presely .
BOB DYLAN performance of Danny & the Juniors' "Rock and Roll Is Here to
Stay" at their high school talent show was so loud that the principal cut the
microphone.
In 1959, Dylan's high school yearbook carried the caption "Robert Zimmerman:
to join 'Little Richard
BOB Dylan performance at musical

concert in school
Folk Singing :
In 1960, Dylan dropped out of college and moved to New York, where his idol, the legendary folk singer
Woody Guthrie, was hospitalized with a rare hereditary disease of the nervous system. He visited with
Guthrie regularly in his hospital room; became a regular in the folk clubs and coffeehouses of Greenwich
Village; met a host of other musicians; and began writing songs at an astonishing pace, including "Song to
Woody," a tribute to his ailing hero.
In the fall of 1961, after one of his performances received a rave review in The New York Times, he signed a
recording contract with Columbia Records, at which point he legally changed his surname to Dylan. Released
early in 1962, Bob Dylan contained only two original songs, but showcased Dylan's gravel-voiced singing
style in a number of traditional folk.
FOLK SINGING
The 1963 release of The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan marked Dylan's
emergence as one of the most original and poetic voices in the history of
American popular music. The album included two of the most memorable
1960s folk songs, "Blowin' in the Wind" (which later became a huge hit for
the folk trio 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 definitive songwriter of the '60s protest movement, a reputation that
only increased after he became involved with one of the movement's
established icon Joana Baezs, in 1963.
While his romantic relationship with Baez lasted only two years, it
benefited both performers immensely in terms of their music careers—
Dylan wrote some of Baez's best-known material, and Baez introduced him
to thousands of fans through her concerts. By 1964 Dylan was playing 200
concerts annually, but had become tired of his role as "the" folk singer-
songwriter of the protest movement. Another Side of Bob Dylan, recorded
in 1964, was a much more personal, introspective collection of songs, far
less politically charged than Dylan's previous efforts.
Reinventing his Image:
In 1965, Dylan scandalized many of his folkie fans by recording the half-acoustic, half-electric
album Bringing It All Back Home, backed by a nine-piece band. On July 25, 1965, he was
famously booed at the Newport 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 set Blonde on Blonde (1966) represented
Dylan at his most innovative. With his unmistakable voice and unforgettable lyrics, Dylan
brought the worlds of music and literature together as no one else had.
Over the course of the next three decades, Dylan continued to reinvent himself. Following a
near-fatal motorcycle accident in July 1966, Dylan spent almost a year recovering in seclusion.
REINVENTING HIS IMAGE
His next two albums, John Wesley Harding (1967)—

including "All Along the Watchtower," later recorded
by guitar great Jimi Hendrix—and the unabashedly
country-ish Nashville Skyline (1969) were far more
mellow than his earlier works. Critics blasted the two-
record set Self-Portrait (1970) and Tarantula, a long-
awaited collection of writings Dylan published in 1971.
In 1973, Dylan appeared in Pat Garrett and Billy the
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."
BOB DYLAN CONTRIBUTION IN LITERATURE ,PAINTING,POETRY
• Beside his singing Bob Dylan also made

great contribution in classic literature and
poetry. Hailed as the Shakespeare of his
generation, Dylan sold tens of millions of
albums, wrote more than 500 songs
recorded by more than 2,000 artists,
performed all over the world, and set the
standard for lyric writing. Since 1994 Bob
published 8 books of painting
,drawings,and paintingsand his work has
been exhibited in major art gallaries &
applauded all across the globe
One of BOB DYLAN Painting book
LIST OF TOP TEN SONGS OF BOB
DYLAN
• Like a rolling stone
• A hard rain’s gonna fall
• Tangled up in blue
• Just like a woman
• All along the watch tower
• I shall be released
• It’s alright ma (I am only bleeding)
• Mr Tambourine man
• Visions of Johanna
• Every Grain of sand
• Shot of love
Photograph of The Last Waltz. The Band with Bob Dylan and other

guests performing I Shall Be Released.
LIST OF OTHER AWARDS
Despite of Noble award Dylan has won many awards
throughout his career some of which are listed as
below
• 10 Grammy Awards
• 1time Academy Award
• Polar Music Prize from Sweden’s King Carl XV.
• Prince of Asturias Award in the Arts category
• Presidential Medal of Freedom in May 2012
• MusiCares Person of the Year award from
the National Academy of Recording Arts and
Sciences
• accolade of Légion d'Honneur from the French
education minister
• He has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall
of Fame, Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame,
and Songwriters Hall of Fame.
President Obama presents Dylan with a Medal of Freedom,
May 2012
LEGACY
• Dylan has been described as one of the most influential figures of the 20th century, musically and culturally.
• He was included in the TOP 100: The Most Important People of the Century by time megazzine
http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,26473,00.html
• He was called "master poet, caustic social critic and intrepid, guiding spirit of the counterculture generation
• President Barack Obama said of Dylan in 2012, "There is not a bigger giant in the history of American
music. For 20 years, academics lobbied the Swedish Academy to give Dylan the Nobel Prize in Literature
• Horace Engdahl, a member of the Nobel Committee, described Dylan's place in literary history in such
words “a singer worthy of a place beside the Greek bards, beside Ovid, beside the Romantic visionaries,
beside the kings and queens of the blues, beside the forgotten masters of brilliant standards.
SOME OF BOB DYLAN QUOTES
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ROBERT ALLEN ZIMMERMAN

• Other names : Shabtai Zisel ben Avraham

BOB DYLAN family home in Hibbing, Minnesota

BOB Dylan performance at musical

His next two albums, John Wesley Harding (1967)—

• Beside his singing Bob Dylan also made

Photograph of The Last Waltz. The Band with Bob Dylan and other

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