Bob Dylan Biography

Bob Dylan Profile Biography – Biographyzone.com. Bob Dylan (born Robert Allen Zimmerman on May 24, 1941 at Duluth, Minnesota) is a singer, songwriter, musician and poet whose contributions in the U.S. American music are comparable, in fame and influence, with those of Stephen Foster, Irving Berlin, Woody Guthrie and Hank Williams.

Bob Dylan Career History

Birth name	Robert Allen Zimmerman
Also known as	Elston Gunnn, Blind Boy Grunt, Bob Landy, Robert Milkwood Thomas, Tedham Porterhouse, Lucky/Boo Wilbury, Jack Frost, Sergei Petrov
Born	May 24, 1941 (1941-05-24) (age 70) Duluth, Minnesota, U.S.
Origin	New York, New York, U.S.
Genres	Rock, folk rock, folk, blues, country, gospel
Occupations	Musician, songwriter, producer, visual artist
Instruments	Vocals, guitar, harmonica, piano, keyboard, bass
Years active	1959–present
Labels	Columbia, Asylum
Associated acts	Traveling Wilburys, The Band, Joan Baez, Grateful Dead, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, The Shadow Blasters, The Golden Chords
Website	bobdylan.com

Some of the most popular songs are Dylan’s 1960s and songs like “Blowin ‘in the Wind” and “The Times They Are a-Changin’” became the emblem of the anti-war movement and civil rights. His most recent album, Modern Times entered the top-selling albums in America in 2006, Bob Dylan and thus the oldest artist who manages it.

Dylan plays the harmonica, guitar, bass, piano and electronic organ. In 2004 he was placed second in the list of the greatest artists of all time of Rolling Stone magazine.

Since January 2011, Bob Dylan will be the object of study in the History of Ideas Department of the Faculty of Philosophy, History of Ideas and the Arts and Classical Languages, University of Oslo, Norway. In 1976, Dylan wrote the song “Hurricane,” which, although having a length of 8 minutes and 32 seconds, reaching the top 33 ranked American songs.

Albums

• Bob Dylan, 1962
• The Freewheelin ‘Bob Dylan, 1963
• The Times They Are a-Changin ‘, 1964
• Another Side of Bob Dylan, 1964
• Bringing It All Back Home, 1965
• Highway 61 Revisited, 1965
• Blonde on Blonde, 1966
• John Wesley Harding, 1967
• Nashville Skyline, 1969
• Self Portrait, 1970
• New Morning, 1970
• Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid, 1973
• Dylan, 1973
• Planet Waves, 1974
• Blood on the Tracks, 1975
• The Basement Tapes, 1975
• Desire, 1976
• Street-Legal, 1978
• Slow Train Coming, 1979
• Saved, 1980
• Shot of Love, 1981
• Infidels, 1983
• Empire Burlesque, 1985
• Knocked Out Loaded, 1986
• Down in the Groove, 1988
• Oh Mercy, 1989
• Under the Red Sky, 1990
• Good as I Been to You, 1992
• World Gone Wrong, 1993
• Time Out of Mind, 1997
• Love and Theft, 2001
• Modern Times, 2006
• Together Through Life, 2009
• Christmas at Heart, 2009

Compilations

• Bob Dylan’s Greatest Hits, 1967
• Bob Dylan’s Greatest Hits Vol II, 1971
• Masterpieces, 1978
• Biograph, 1985
• The Bootleg Series, Völs. 1-3: Rare And Unreleased, 1961-1991, 1991
• Bob Dylan’s Greatest Hits Volume 3, 1994
• The Best of Bob Dylan, Vol 1 (UK), 1997
• The Bootleg Series Vol 4: Bob Dylan Live 1966, The Royal Albert Hall “Concert, 1998
• The Best of Bob Dylan, Vol 2, 2000
• The Essential Bob Dylan, 2000
• The Bootleg Series Vol 5: Bob Dylan Live 1975, The Rolling Thunder Revue, 2002
• The Bootleg Series Vol 6: Bob Dylan Live 1964, Concert at Philharmonic Hall, 2004
• The Bootleg Series Vol 7: No Direction Home: The Soundtrack, 2005
• The Best of Bob Dylan (U.S.), 2005
• Dylan, 2007
• The Original Mono Recordings 2010
• The Best of the Original Mono Recordings 2010

Live Recordings

• Before the Flood, 1974
• Hard Rain, 1976
• Bob Dylan at Budokan, 1979
• Real Live, 1984
• Dylan & The Dead, 1989
• The 30th Anniversary Concert Celebration, 1993
• MTV Unplugged, 1995
• Live at the Gaslight 1962, 2005
• Live at Carnegie Hall in 1963, 2005
• In concert at Brandeis University in 1963, 2010

Since 2006, Bob Dylan has “Theme Time Radio Hour” on XM Radio.

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