Bob Dylan

A detailed Summary of Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan, born Robert Zimmerman on May 24th, 1941, has perhaps been one of the most influential singer songwriters of all time. Young Dylan lived the first five or six years of his life in Duluth, Minnesota, until his father became ill with polio and lost his job. The family then moved to Hibbing, Minnesota, where they slept in the living room of his fathers parents house for about two years.

As a boy he started listening to late night rhythm and blues stations from Chicago. He pestered the local record store for the newest singles from Hank Williams, Chuck Barry, Howlin' Wolf , and John Lee Hooker, just to name a few. These early influences played, and still play, a big role in Dylan's unique musical style. Somewhere around the age of ten, Dylan realized that he wanted to be a guitarist and a singer. Soon he formed his own bands, The Golden Chords, The Shadow Blasters, and Elston Gunn & The Rock Boppers. His fellow students were shocked to hear such a voice come from the small kid, when he sang at a high school talent show.

After high school graduation in 1959, Dylan enrolled in the University of Minnesota, but never gradu

He had made such a big impact upon the folk stages of America in the early sixties, that when he started moving back to his original rock 'n' roll roots (by incorporating the electric guitar into his music), there was almost an immediate uproar. All this controversy inspired Dylan so much, that these were by far his most fruitful years. Sometimes he'd write whole songs on the way to the recording studio or to a concert. By this time, Dylan was a household name. He had changed people's way of thinking in so much of a way, that singers were now expected to write their own music.

Dylan released his first album in 1962 (just before his 21st birthday), and it sold over 5,000 copies. Very little of the music on his fist album was actually his, mainly because very few people did there own songs back then. Around the same time though, Dylan was starting to find his song writing voice, and his second album, THE FREEWHELIN' BOB DYLAN, (my favorite Dylan C.D.) consisted of all but two songs that weren't written by him. The song BLOWIN IN THE WIND became, and still remains the fastest selling single in Warner Brothers history. This typ

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