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