Robert Dylan (known professionally as Bob Dylan and born Robert Allen Zimmerman, May 24, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter, author, and visual artist who is regarded as a widely influential figure in popular culture. Much of his most celebrated work dates from the 1960s, when songs such as "Blowin' in the Wind" (1963) and "The Times They Are a-Changin'" (1964) became anthems for the Civil Rights Movement and anti-war movement. His lyrics incorporated a wide range of political,
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social, philosophical, and literary influences, defied existing conventions of popular music, and appealed to the burgeoning counterculture, most notably on the six-minute single "Like a Rolling Stone" (1965).
Born Robert Allen Zimmerman, (1941-05-24) May 24, 1941 (age 82), Duluth, Minnesota, US Occupations Singer-songwriter, artist, writer Years active 1959–present Genres Folk, blues, rock, gospel, country, traditional pop, jazz
Labels Columbia, Asylum
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Discography
Bob Dylan (1962) The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan (1963) The Times They Are a-Changin' (1964) Another Side of Bob Dylan (1964) Bringing It All Back Home (1965) Highway 61 Revisited (1965) Blonde on Blonde (1966) John Wesley Harding (1967) Nashville Skyline (1969) Self Portrait (1970) New Morning (1970) Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid (1973) Dylan (1973) Planet Waves (1974) Blood on the Tracks (1975) The Basement Tapes (1975) Desire (1976) Street-Legal (1978) Slow Train Coming (1979) Saved (1980) Shot of Love (1981) Infidels (1983) Empire Burlesque (1985) Knocked Out Loaded (1986) Down in the Groove (1988) Oh Mercy (1989) Under the Red Sky (1990) Good as I Been to You (1992) World Gone Wrong (1993) Time Out of Mind (1997) "Love and Theft" (2001) Modern Times (2006) Together Through Life (2009) Christmas in the Heart (2009) Tempest (2012) Shadows in the Night (2015) Fallen Angels (2016) Triplicate (2017) Rough and Rowdy Ways (2020)
Visual art
Dylan's visual art was first seen by the public via a painting he contributed for the cover of The Band's Music from Big Pink album in 1968.[420] The cover of Dylan's own 1970 album Self Portrait features the painting of a human face by Dylan. More of Dylan's artwork was revealed with the 1973 publication of his book Writings and Drawings. The cover of Dylan's 1974 album Planet Waves again featured
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one of his paintings. In 1994 Random House published Drawn Blank, a book of Dylan's drawings. In 2007, the first public exhibition of Dylan's paintings, The Drawn Blank Series, opened at the Kunstsammlungen in Chemnitz, Germany; it showcased more than 200 watercolors and gouaches made from the original drawings. The exhibition coincided with the publication of Bob Dylan: The Drawn Blank Series, which includes 170 reproductions from the series. From September 2010 until April 2011, the National Gallery of Denmark exhibited 40 large-scale acrylic paintings by Dylan, The Brazil Series.
Legacy
Dylan has been described as one of the most influential figures of the 20th century, musically and culturally. He was included in the Time 100: The Most Important People of the Century, where he was called "master poet, caustic social critic and intrepid, guiding spirit of the counterculture generation".
