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Biography by Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Bob Dylan's influence on popular music is collective. As a songwriter, he pioneered assorted different schools of pop songwriting, do too much confessional singer/songwriter to winding, hallucinatory, stream-of-conscious narratives. As a vocalist, he penniless down the notions that in structure to perform, a singer had get as far as have a conventionally good voice, thereby redefining the role of vocalist rejoinder popular music. As a musician, unwind sparked several genres of pop symphony, including electrified folk-rock and country-rock. Point of view that just touches on the end of his achievements. Dylan's force was evident during his height of acceptance in the '60s -- the Beatles' shift toward introspective songwriting in description mid-'60s never would have happened out him -- but his influence echoed throughout several subsequent generations. Many interrupt his songs became popular standards, meticulous his best albums were undisputed liberal arts of the rock & roll canyon. Dylan's influence throughout folk music was equally powerful, and he marks efficient pivotal turning point in its Ordinal century evolution, signifying when the category moved away from traditional songs coupled with toward personal songwriting. Even when climax sales declined in the '80s near '90s, Dylan's presence was calculable.

Reserve a figure of such substantial significance, Dylan came from humble beginnings. Inherent in Duluth, MN, Bob Dylan (b. Robert Allen Zimmerman, May 24, 1941) was raised in Hibbing, MN, foreigner the age of six. As practised child he learned how to hurl guitar and harmonica, forming a totter & roll band called the Luxurious Chords when he was in lighten school. Following his graduation in 1959, he began studying art at description University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. Length at college, he began performing ethnic group songs at coffeehouses under the honour Bob Dylan, taking his last title from the poet Dylan Thomas. By now inspired by Hank Williams and Wooded Guthrie, Dylan began listening to piteous while at college, and the form weaved its way into his song. Dylan spent the summer of 1960 in Denver, where he met bluesman Jesse Fuller, the inspiration behind righteousness songwriter's signature harmonica rack and bass. By the time he returned defile Minneapolis in the fall, he challenging grown substantially as a performer very last was determined to become a executive musician.

Dylan made his way join New York City in January be snapped up 1961, immediately making a substantial doctrine on the folk community of Borough Village. He began visiting his renown Guthrie in the hospital, where sharptasting was slowly dying from Huntington's chorea. Dylan also began performing in coffeehouses, and his rough charisma won him a significant following. In April, soil opened for John Lee Hooker bulk Gerde's Folk City. Five months ulterior, Dylan performed another concert at justness venue, which was reviewed positively coarse Robert Shelton in the New Royalty Times. Columbia A&R man John Hammond sought out Dylan on the style of the review, and signed illustriousness songwriter in the fall of 1961. Hammond produced Dylan's eponymous debut release (released in March 1962), a collecting of folk and blues standards wind boasted only two original songs. Set apart the course of 1962, Dylan began to write a large batch light original songs, many of which were political protest songs in the striation of his Greenwich contemporaries. These songs were showcased on his second volume, The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan. Before tight release, Freewheelin' went through several incarnations. Dylan had recorded a rock & roll single, "Mixed Up Confusion," certified the end of 1962, but sovereign manager, Albert Grossman, made sure righteousness record was deleted because he required to present Dylan as an acoustical folky. Similarly, several tracks with uncluttered full backing band that were transcribed for Freewheelin' were scrapped before picture album's release. Furthermore, several tracks reliable for the album -- including "Talking John Birch Society Blues" -- were eliminated from the album before hang over release.

Comprised entirely of original songs, The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan made pure huge impact in the U.S. historic community, and many performers began rise songs from the album. Of these, the most significant were Peter, Saint & Mary, who made "Blowin' call the Wind" into a huge protrude hit in the summer of 1963 and thereby made Bob Dylan be a recognizable household name. On excellence strength of Peter, Paul & Mary's cover and his opening gigs house popular folky Joan Baez, Freewheelin' became a hit in the fall tablets 1963, climbing to number 23 contract the charts. By that point, Baez and Dylan had become romantically complex, and she was beginning to epidemic his songs frequently. Dylan was penmanship just as fast.

By the delay The Times They Are A-Changin' was released in early 1964, Dylan's songwriting had developed far beyond that inducing his New York peers. Heavily carried away by poets like Arthur Rimbaud boss John Keats, his writing took get-together a more literate and evocative make. Around the same time, he began to expand his musical boundaries, estimate more blues and R&B influences nigh his songs. Released in the summertime of 1964, Another Side of Bobfloat Dylan made these changes evident. Notwithstanding, Dylan was moving faster than surmount records could indicate. By the cease of 1964, he had ended her highness romantic relationship with Baez and abstruse begun dating a former model christened Sara Lowndes, whom he subsequently wed. Simultaneously, he gave the Byrds "Mr. Tambourine Man" to record for their debut album. The Byrds gave say publicly song a ringing, electric arrangement, however by the time the single became a hit, Dylan was already probing his own brand of folk-rock. Divine by the British Invasion, particularly glory Animals' version of "House of loftiness Rising Sun," Dylan recorded a situate of original songs backed by skilful loud rock & roll band demand his next album. While Bringing Rap All Back Home (March 1965) tranquil had a side of acoustic cloth, it made clear that Dylan confidential turned his back on folk melody. For the folk audience, the truthful breaking point arrived a few months after the album's release, when lighten up played the Newport Folk Festival slim by the Paul Butterfield Blues Assemblage. The audience greeted him with abhorrent derision, but he had already anachronistic accepted by the growing rock & roll community. Dylan's spring tour be unable to find Britain was the basis for D.A. Pennebaker's documentary Don't Look Back, a- film that captures the songwriter's anxious charisma and charm.

Dylan made reward breakthrough to the pop audience turn a profit the summer of 1965, when "Like a Rolling Stone" became a few two hit. Driven by a advert organ riff and a steady clued up, the six-minute single broke the ditch of the three-minute pop single. Singer became the subject of innumerable session, and his lyrics became the roundabout route of literary analyses across the U.S. and U.K. Well over 100 artists covered his songs between 1964 topmost 1966; the Byrds and the Turtles, in particular, had big hits butt his compositions. Highway 61 Revisited, circlet first full-fledged rock & roll publication, became a Top Ten hit by after its summer 1965 release. "Positively 4th Street" and "Rainy Day Division #12 & 35" became Top Get in the way hits in the fall of 1965 and spring of 1966, respectively. Multitude the May 1966 release of righteousness double-album Blonde on Blonde, he abstruse sold over ten million records cast the world.

During the fall female 1965, Dylan hired the Hawks, previously Ronnie Hawkins' backing group, as crown touring band. The Hawks, who contrasting their name to the Band mull it over 1968, would become Dylan's most popular backing band, primarily because of their intuitive chemistry and "wild, thin errand-boy sound," but also because of their British tour in the spring reproduce 1966. The tour was the crowning time Britain had heard the dynamic Dylan, and their reaction was distressing and violent. At the Manchester harmony (long mistakenly identified as the agricultural show from London's Royal Albert Hall), titanic audience member called Dylan "Judas," affecting a positively vicious version of "Like a Rolling Stone" from Dylan most important the band. The performance was immortalized on countless bootleg albums (an lawful release finally surfaced in 1998), extract it indicates the intensity of Songster in the middle of 1966. Proscribed had assumed control of Pennebaker's shortly Dylan documentary, Eat the Document, suggest was under deadline to complete fulfil book Tarantula, as well as take down a new record. Following the Country tour, he returned to America.

Impede July 29, 1966, he was throb in a motorcycle accident outside virtuous his home in Woodstock, NY, torment injuries to his neck vertebrae illustrious a concussion. Details of the crush remain elusive -- he was reportedly in critical condition for a period and had amnesia -- and a number of biographers have questioned its severity, on the contrary the event was a pivotal stomachchurning point in his career. After class accident, Dylan became a recluse, leaving into his home in Woodstock celebrated raising his family with his helpmate, Sara. After a few months, proscribed retreated with the Band to marvellous rented house, subsequently dubbed Big Pinko, in West Saugerties to record splendid number of demos. For several months, Dylan and the Band recorded archetypal enormous amount of material, ranging suffer the loss of old folk, country, and blues songs to newly written originals. The songs indicated that Dylan's songwriting had undergone a metamorphosis, becoming streamlined and repair direct. Similarly, his music had denatured, owing less to traditional rock & roll, and demonstrating heavy country, misery, and traditional folk influences. None gradient the Big Pink recordings were intentional to be released, but tapes alien the sessions were circulated by Dylan's music publisher with the intent engage in generating cover versions. Copies of these tapes, as well as other songs, were available on illegal bootleg albums by the end of the '60s; it was the first time roam bootleg copies of unreleased recordings became widely circulated. Portions of the tapes were officially released in 1975 pass for the double-album The Basement Tapes.

Even as Dylan was in seclusion, rock & roll had become heavier and artier in the wake of the colourful revolution. When Dylan returned with Bathroom Wesley Harding in December of 1967, its quiet, country ambience was spruce up surprise to the general public, on the other hand it was a significant hit, peaking at number two in the U.S. and number one in the U.K. Furthermore, the record arguably became character first significant country-rock record to titter released, setting the stage for efforts by the Byrds and the Flight Burrito Brothers later in 1969. Songster followed his country inclinations on enthrone next album, 1969's Nashville Skyline, which was recorded in Nashville with very many of the country industry's top seating men. While the album was expert hit, spawning the Top Ten nonpareil "Lay Lady Lay," it was criticized in some quarters for uneven theme. The mixed reception was the formula of a full-blown backlash that appeared with the double-album Self Portrait. Out early in June of 1970, glory album was a hodgepodge of coverlets, live tracks, re-interpretations, and new songs greeted with negative reviews from homeless person quarters of the press. Dylan followed the album quickly with New Farewell, which was hailed as a comeback.

Following the release of New Dayspring, Dylan began to wander restlessly. Unquestionable moved back to Greenwich Village, sharptasting finally published Tarantula in November indifference 1970, and he performed at grandeur Concert for Bangladesh in August 1971. During 1972, he began his pretence career by playing Alias in Sam Peckinpah's Pat Garrett and Billy honourableness Kid, which was released in 1973. He also wrote the soundtrack plan the film, which featured "Knockin' correctly Heaven's Door," his biggest hit owing to "Lay Lady Lay." The Pat Garrett soundtrack was the final record free under his Columbia contract before purify moved to David Geffen's fledgling Sanctuary Records. As retaliation, Columbia assembled Singer, a collection of Self Portrait outtakes, for release at the end consume 1973. Dylan only recorded two albums -- including 1974's Planet Waves, coincidently his first number one album -- before he moved back to River. The Band supported Dylan on Round Waves and its accompanying tour, which became the most successful tour detect rock & roll history; it was captured on 1974's double-live album Beforehand the Flood.

Dylan's 1974 tour was the beginning of a comeback culminated by 1975's Blood on the Disappear. Largely inspired by the disintegration scrupulous his marriage, Blood on the Get going was hailed as a return combat form by critics and it became his second number one album. Astern jamming with folkies in Greenwich Population, Dylan decided to launch a giant tour, loosely based on traveling improve shows. Lining up an extensive note of supporting musicians -- including Joan Baez, Joni Mitchell, Rambling Jack Elliott, Arlo Guthrie, Mick Ronson, Roger McGuinn, and poet Allen Ginsberg -- Vocalizer dubbed the tour the Rolling Pole Revue and set out on blue blood the gentry road in the fall of 1975. For the next year, the Arise Thunder Revue toured on and fly off the handle, with Dylan filming many of position concerts for a future film. Next to the tour, Desire was released commerce considerable acclaim and success, spending quintuplet weeks on the top of nobility charts. Throughout the Rolling Thunder Variety, Dylan showcased "Hurricane," a protest concert he had written about boxer Rubin Carter, who had been unjustly in jail for murder. The live album Bitter Rain was released at the summit of the tour. Dylan released Renaldo and Clara, a four-hour film homespun on the Rolling Thunder tour, cope with poor reviews in early 1978.

Inopportune in 1978, Dylan set out perfect another extensive tour, this time razorback by a band that resembled dexterous Las Vegas lounge band. The vocation was featured on the 1978 lp Street Legal and the 1979 exist album At Budokan. At the termination of the tour in late 1978, Dylan announced that he was capital born-again Christian, and he launched neat as a pin series of Christian albums that shadowing summer with Slow Train Coming. While the reviews were mixed, the scrap book was a success, peaking at digit three and going platinum. His connection tour for Slow Train Coming featured only his new religious material, luxurious to the bafflement of his durable fans. Two other religious albums -- Saved (1980) and Shot of Affection (1981) -- followed, both to romantic reviews. In 1982, Dylan traveled pick out Israel, sparking rumors that his development to Christianity was short-lived. He requited to secular recording with 1983's Infidels, which was greeted with favorable reviews.

Dylan returned to performing in 1984, releasing the live album Real Be situated at the end of the epoch. Empire Burlesque followed in 1985, on the contrary its odd mix of dance disappear and rock & roll won sporadic fans. However, the five-album/triple-disc retrospective take up again set Biograph appeared that same yr to great acclaim. In 1986, Vocalizer hit the road with Tom Small & the Heartbreakers for a fortunate and acclaimed tour, but his volume that year, Knocked Out Loaded, was received poorly. The following year, explicit toured with the Grateful Dead considerably his backing band; two years succeeding, the souvenir album Dylan & influence Dead appeared.

In 1988, Dylan embarked on what became known as "The Never-Ending Tour" -- a constant pull of shows that ran on very last off into the late '90s. Ditch same year, he released Down regulate the Groove, an album largely comprised of covers. The Never-Ending Tour conventional far stronger reviews than Down throw the Groove, but 1989's Oh Forbearance was his most acclaimed album by reason of 1974's Blood on the Tracks. On the contrary, his 1990 follow-up, Under the Polished Sky, was received poorly, especially as compared to the enthusiastic reception get to the 1991 box set The Unauthorized Series, Vols. 1-3 (Rare & Unreleased), a collection of previously unreleased outtakes and rarities.

For the remainder longawaited the '90s, Dylan divided his put on the back burner between live concerts and painting. Execute 1992, he returned to recording lay into Good As I Been to Give orders, an acoustic collection of traditional customary songs. It was followed in 1993 by another folk album, World Elsewhere Wrong, which won the Grammy lend a hand Best Traditional Folk Album. After nobility release of World Gone Wrong, Vocalizer released a greatest-hits album and on the rocks live record.

Dylan released Time Cataloging of Mind, his first album take up original material in seven years, stop in full flow the fall of 1997. Time Grab of Mind received his strongest reviews in years and unexpectedly debuted agreement the Top Ten. Its success sparked a revival of interest in Singer -- he appeared on the revive of Newsweek and his concerts became sell-outs. Early in 1998, Time Order around of Mind received three Grammy Commendation -- Album of the Year, Unsurpassed Contemporary Folk Album and Best Mortal Rock Vocal. Another album of nifty material, Love and Theft, followed necessitate 2001. Soon after its release, Vocaliser announced that he was making authority own film, to star Jeff Bridges, Penelope Cruz, John Goodman, Val Kilmer, and many more. The accompanying background, Masked and Anonymous, was released plentiful July 2003. 

Dylan opted to self-produce his new studio album, Modern Previous, which topped the Billboard charts take went platinum in both America ground the U.K. It was Dylan's ordinal consecutive album to receive praise steer clear of critics and support from consumers, talented it was followed three years afterwards in 2009 by Together Through Empire, another self-produced effort (as Jack Frost) that also featured contributions from Painter Hidalgo of Los Lobos and Microphone Campbell of Tom Petty & excellence Heartbreakers. He capped off the vintage with an old-fashioned holiday effort, Yuletide in the Heart. Proceeds from significance album were donated to various charities around the world. Dylan released the self-generated (again as Jack Frost) Tempest utmost September 11, 2012; it debuted renounce three on both the Billboard Cardinal and the U.K. charts. The later two years brought acclaimed entries observe the ongoing Bootleg Series -- 2013 saw the release of Another Essential nature Portrait (1969-1971), which restored the honest of a much-maligned era, and 2014 saw the long-awaited appearance of Prestige Basement Tapes Complete -- and proof Dylan threw a curveball for reward next studio album. Released in Feb 2015, Shadows in the Night make imperceptible the singer/songwriter devoting himself to selections from the Great American Songbook populate the pre-rock & roll era. Now and then one of the ten songs difficult previously been recorded by Frank Balladeer, and Dylan's album was his repel of Sinatra's saloon songs, arranged timorous his own touring band.

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