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Biography Attended University of Minnesota but dropped out after freshman year Heavily influenced by Woody GuthrieWoody Guthrie AKA Blind Boy Grunt Bob Landy Tedham Porterhouse
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Bob Dylan
The 60’s
Biography
Born Robert Allen Zimmerman on May 24th, 1941
Raised in Minnesota
Took his stage name from poet Dylan Thomas
Biography
Attended University of Minnesota but dropped out after freshman year
Heavily influenced by Woody Guthrie
AKA Blind Boy Grunt Bob Landy Tedham Porterhouse
Early Career
Signed to Columbia Records by John Hammond
Bob Dylan – 1962 Talkin’ New York Song to Woody Sells only 5000 copies
Legally changes name in 1963
Hires Albert Grossman as his manager
Early Career The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan – 1963
Blowin’ in the Wind A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall
Album also includes a mixture of love songs and jokey, talking blues Bob Dylan’s Blues
The range of material on the album impressed many listeners, including The Beatles. George Harrison said, "We just played it, just wore it out. The content of the song lyrics and just the attitude—it was incredibly original and wonderful."
Development
Established songwriter
Others who recorded and had hits with Dylan's songs in the early and mid-1960s included The Byrds; Sonny and Cher; The Hollies; Peter, Paul and Mary; The Association; Manfred Mann; and The Turtles
Joan Baez
CBS started to promote him with the tag "Nobody Sings Dylan Like Dylan."
The voice of a movement Politics and the Civil Rights Movement
Ed Sullivan March on Washington
The Times They Are a-Changin’ – 1963 “Only A Pawn In Their Game" addressing the murder of civil rights
worker Medgar Evers "The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll" about the death of black
hotel barmaid Hattie Carroll, at the hands of young white socialite William Zantzinger
feels used and manipulated by the folk and protest movements
It Ain’t Me Babe
Appearance, style and demeanor change rapidly from the latter half of 1964 into 1965
I Don't Believe You (She Acts Like We Never Have Met)
Dylan goes electric
Bringin’ It All Back Home – April 1965
Subterranean Homesick Blues
Mr. Tambourine Man
Newport Music Festival
Dylan goes electric
Highway 61 Revisted Like a Rolling Stone – July 1965
Blonde on Blonde – 1966
On November 22, 1965, Dylan secretly married 25-year-old former model Sara Lownds.
1966 European Tour
Beyond the 60’s
Motorcycle accident – July 29th, 1966
Goes Country All Along the Watchtower
Rejects Woodstock
Later Work
Forever Young – 1973
Hurricane – 1975
Born again
Hearts of Fire - 1987
Never Ending Tour - 1988