Bob Dylan

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Bob Dylan's Bio: Robert Allen Zimmerman was born 24 May 1941 in Duluth, Minnesota; his father Abe worked for the Standard Oil Co. Six years later the family moved to Hibbing, often the coldest place in the US, where he taught himself piano and guitar and formed several high school rock bands. In 1959 he entered the University of Minnesota and began performing as Bob Dylan at clubs in Minneapolis and St. Paul. The following year he went to New York, performed in Greenwich Village folk clubs, and spent much time in the hospital room of his hero Woody Guthrie. Late in 1961 Columbia signed him to a contract and the following year released his first album, containing two original songs. Next year "The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan" appeared, with all original songs including the 1960s anthem "Blowin' in the Wind." After several more important acoustic/folk albums, and tours with Joan Baez, he launched into a new electric/acoustic format with 1965's "Bringing It All Back Home" which, with The Byrds' cover of his "Mr Tambourine Man," launched folk-rock. The documentary Dont Look Back (1967) was filmed at this time; he broke off his relationship with Baez and by the end of the year had married Sara Dylan (born Sara Lowndes). Nearly killed in a motorcycle accident 29 July 1966, he withdrew for a time of introspection. After more hard rock performances, his next albums were mostly country. With his career wandering (and critics condemning the fact), Sam Peckinpah asked him to compose the score for, and appear in, his Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid (1973) - more memorable as a soundtrack than a film. In 1974 he and The Band went on tour, releasing his first #1 album, "Planet Waves". It was followed a year later by another first-place album, "Blood on the Tracks". After several Rolling Thunder tours, the unsuccessful film Renaldo and Clara (1978) and a divorce, he stunned the music world again by his release of the fundamentalist Christian album "Slow Train Coming," a cut from which won him his first Grammy. Many tours and albums later, on the eve of a European tour May 1997, he was stricken with histoplasmosis; he recovered and appeared in Bologna that September at the request of the Pope. That same month saw the release of his first album of original songs in seven years, the highly-acclaimed "Time Out of Mind." In December he received the Kennedy Center Award for artistic excellence.

Throughout the first decade of the new millennium, and the fifth decade of his career, Dylan refused to slow down. He released "Love and Theft" in 2001, "Modern Times" in 2006, and "Together Through Life" and "Christmas in the Heart"in 2009, along with a number of new and sometimes remastered compilation and greatest hits albums.

Bob Dylan went on tour in 1988, and although he insists he has gone on a different tour each year since, many have taken to calling this the "Never Ending Tour," and he has played roughly 100 dates a year each year since (with the notable exception of his break for health reasons in 1997), and had played more than 2300 shows by the end of 2010. 2011 saw Dylan in Taiwan, China, Singapore, Vietnam, Australia, Europe, Israel and the US, before leaving on a second European tour later in October. … Read more