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Born 24 May 1941.
Bob Dylan is a performance name for the person Robert Allen Zimmerman . Bob Dylan performs as Jack Frost . Bob Dylan performs as Blind Boy Grunt .
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Wed 16 Sep 2009 11:49
Music legend Bob Dylan is to have his artwork displayed at the National Gallery of...
Thu 10 Sep 2009 18:14
A harmonica owned by music legend Bob Dylan is sold at auction to an electrician and...
Thu 27 Aug 2009 10:13
Folk legend Bob Dylan will release his first album of Christmas songs, with royalties...
Bob Dylan (born Robert Allen Zimmerman; May 24, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter, musician, poet and painter who has been a major figure in popular music for five decades. Much of his most celebrated work dates from the 1960s when he was, at first, an informal chronicler and then an apparently reluctant figurehead of social unrest. A number of his songs, such as "Blowin' in the Wind" and "The Times They Are a-Changin'," became anthems for both the civil rights and the anti-war movements. Dylan's early lyrics incorporated political, social and philosophical as well as literary influences. They defied existing pop music conventions and appealed hugely to the then burgeoning counterculture. While expanding and personalizing genres, he has explored many traditions of American song, from folk, blues and country to gospel, rock and roll and rockabilly to English, Scottish and Irish folk music, and even jazz and swing.
Dylan performs with guitar, piano and harmonica. Backed by a changing line-up of musicians, he has toured steadily since the late 1980s on what has been dubbed the Never Ending Tour. His accomplishments as a recording artist and performer have been central to his career, but his greatest contribution is generally considered to be his songwriting.
He has received numerous awards over the years including Grammy, Golden Globe and Academy Awards; he has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame and Songwriters Hall of Fame. In 2008 a Bob Dylan Pathway was opened in the singer's honor in his birthplace of Duluth, Minnesota. The Pulitzer Prize jury in 2008 awarded him a special citation for what they called his profound impact on popular music and American culture, "marked by lyrical compositions of extraordinary poetic power."
Dylan released his most recent studio album, Christmas in the Heart, on October 13, 2009. The album comprised traditional Christmas songs, including "Here Comes Santa Claus" and "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing". All Dylan's royalties from the sale of this album will benefit the charity Feeding America in the USA, and similar charities in overseas markets.
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Tom Russell writes: There is no danger. Not anymore. Not in song. Bob Dylan walked out...Mike Harding
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Christmas in the Heart
Reviewed by Nigel Smith
Indulge Dylan his whims and this is worth a spin come Christmas morn.
Together Through Life
Reviewed by Chris Jones
Together Through Life isn't a classic but it's no Self Portrait either.
The Bootleg Series, Volume 8: Tell Tale Signs: Rare and Unreleased 1989~2006: Expanded Deluxe Edition (disc 1)
Reviewed by Chris Jones
Beautiful, brave and beguiling.
Modern Times
Reviewed by Chris Jones
'Modern Times' is the exception that proves Bob's recent assertion that most modern...
The Bootleg Series, Volume 7: No Direction Home: The Soundtrack (disc 1)
Reviewed by Chris Jones
By the closing cut you feel like you've travelled as far as Bob had in one short decade.
The Bootleg Series, Volume 5: Live 1975: The Rolling Thunder Revue (disc 1)
Reviewed by Chris Jones
If you've got friends who claim not to like Dylan, play them this. If they don't like...
"Love and Theft"
Reviewed by Chris Jones
It seems the weight of four years anticipation has produced what is now being termed...
Blonde on Blonde
Reviewed by Sid Smith
Blood on the Tracks
Reviewed by Chris Jones
Highway 61 Revisited
Reviewed by Sid Smith
Listen to Bob's weekly radio show as he hand picks the music he loves old and new.
Bob Dylan - Theme Time Radio Hour
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The Radcliffe & Maconie Show
Steve Lamacq
Chris Evans
Gerry Anderson
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