Bob Dylan

Genres:	Action & Adventure • Blues • Christian & Gospel • Country & Bluegrass • Documentaries • Drama • Folk • Holiday & Seasonal • Music & Radio • Music Videos & Concerts • Pop / Rock • Soundtracks • Television • Westerns
Descriptive "tags":	folk • singer-songwriter • classic rock • folk rock • rock • blues
Decades Active:	1960s • 1970s • 1980s • 1990s • 2000s

Biography

Robert Allen Zimmerman, 24 May 1941, Duluth, Minnesota, USA. Bob Dylan is without doubt one of the most influential figures in the history of popular music. He is the writer of scores of classic songs and is generally regarded as the man who brought literacy to rock lyrics.

The son of the middle-class proprietor of an electrical and furniture store, as a teenager, living in Hibbing, Minnesota, Robert Zimmerman was always intrigued by the romanticism of the outsider. He loved James Dean movies, liked riding motorcycles and wearing biker gear, and listened to R&B music on radio stations transmitting from the south. A keen fan of folk singer Odetta and country legend Hank Williams, he was also captivated by early rock ‘n’ roll. When he began playing music himself, with school friends in bands such as the Golden Chords and Elston Gunn And The Rock Boppers, it was as a clumsy but enthusiastic piano player, and it was at this time...

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