Bob Dylan

             Born on the 24th May 1941 in Duluth, Minnesota, USA as Robert Allen
             Zimmerman. His father Abraham, worked for the Standard Oil Company. When
             Robert was 6 years old, they moved to a small town called Hibbing were he
             went to school. After graduation from High School in 1959, he left for
             Minneapolis to follow his studies at the
             University of Minnesota. Here his love for
             contemporary rock and roll came up and he
             listened to endless music by Hank Williams,
             Robert Johnson and Woody Guthrie. His
             passion for music was so huge that he
             began skipping classes and also began to play
             his music at small local nightspots. Here he
             preformed with his guitar, harmonica and even
             worked on his 'notorious' nasal voice. Eventually, Robert changed his name to
             Bob Dylan. The name Dylan was assumed to be taken from the late Welsh
             poet, Dylan Thomas, although Bob Dylan continues to deny this as fact to this
             In 1961, the 20 year old Bob Dylan dropped out of college and moved to New
             York to further his profession as a song writer and poet. This was where he was
             discovered as a young singer-songwriter while performing at Gerde's
             Folk City. Columbia Records got Dylan to sign a contract
             and in early 1962. His debu...

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