MAJOR MUSIC ARTISTS - USA (AMERICA)
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| Bob Dylan |
DESCRIPTION: Bob Dylan
ACTIVITY STATUS: Active
ACTIVITY PERIOD: 1961 - Current
MUSIC GENRE: Folk, Rock, Folk-Rock, Gospel
COUNTRY OF ORIGIN: USA (AMERICA)
RECORD COMPANIES / LABELS (Current & Past): Columbia, Asylum
OFFICIAL WEB SITE: http://www.bobdylan.com
ABOUT BOB DYLAN
Bob Dylan (real name Robert Zimmerman), is the great singer-songwriter of the rock and roll era, he was born in Duluth, Minnesota in 1941. He learned guitar in his teen years, idolised folk-singer Woody Guthrie, and later studied at the University of Missenota. Adopting the name Bob Dylan (believed from the poet Dylan Thomas) he left university and went to New York determined to make it as a musician. He played in coffee houses and clubs in downtown Greenwich Village. He was quickly spotted by a record company executive and released his debut album in 1962, followed in 1963 by the classic Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan. The songs Blowin’ In The Wind and The Times They Are A-Changin’ became classics of the civil rights and youth protest movement of the early-mid Sixties, and catapaulted him to fame worldwide.
By the mid 1960s he wanted to throw off the purely folk image, and went electric with the Highway 61 Revisited album, and helping invent folk-rock. A rush of Dylan classic songs came then including Like A Rolling Stone, Stuck Inside of Mobile With the Memphis Blues Again and Just Like A Woman. Severely injured in a motorcycle accident in 1966, he didn’t release another album until the counry-influenced John Wesley Harding (1968), and another country outing Nashville Skyline (1969).
Though the Seventies proved a more difficult time for Dylan both professionally and personally with divorce from his wife Sara, he nonetheless released two of his best-received albums “Blood On The Tracks” (1974), and “Desire” (1975). He also went back on the road touring with the Rolling Thunder Review, with Joan Baez and poet Allan Ginsberg among others. He pronounced himself a born-again Christian in 1979, and in the late 1980s recorded with the stellar rock veteran outfit the Traveling Wilburys, with George Harrison, Roy Orbison, Tom Petty and Jeff Lynne.
He released a series of new albums in the 1990s, including the hihgly successful Time Out Of My Mind in 1997, and in the same year was honored for artistic excellence in the Kennedy Center Honours, while four years later he won an Oscar for Best Song with "Things Have Changed". With an extraordinary career spanning five decades, and songs which became part not just of the life of American youth, but of global culture, his impact as an artist has been immense. And he did it all with a pen and paper, guitar, and an idiosyncratic nasal voice some might have said would have never even got him a gig in a cafe. I “ I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet.”
By Larry Buttrose
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- Bob Dylan piece at Cuepoint by Joe Levy (2004) - https://medium.com/cuepoint/bob-dylan-the-truth-is-there-is-no-truth-1c31f66c04fa
- Bob Dylan discusses his songwriting style - http://www.showbiz411.com/2015/02/07/bob-dylans-full-musicares-speech-how-he-wrote-the-songs-a-master-class-must-read
- Bob Dylan interview with Stuart Coupe (1992) - http://www.tommagazine.com.au/2016/05/22/bob-dylan-2/
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