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Dylan was born Robert Allen Zimmerman, on May 24, 1941, in Duluth, Minnesota. Robert started writing poems around the age of ten, and taught himself piano and guitar in his early teens.
Bob began studying at the University of Minnesota in the fall of 1959. He began to perform solo at local nightspots. It was around this time, too, that he adopted the stage name Bob Dylan.
The following year, he dropped out of college and went to New York with two things on his mind: to become a part of Greenwich Village's burgeoning folk-music scene, and to meet singer Woody Guthrie, who was hospitalized in New Jersey with a rare, hereditary disease of the nervous system. He succeeded on both counts.
In the fall of 1961, Dylan's legend began to spread beyond folk circles and into the world. A month later, Columbia Records executive John Hammond signed Dylan to a recording contract, releasing his first album early in 1962.
Promising as that first album was, it didn't prepare anyone for the masterpiece that came next. The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan, released in 1963, contained two of the sixties' most durable folk anthems, "Blowin' in the Wind" and "A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall," the breathtaking ballads "Girl From the North Country" and "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right," and nine other originals that marked the emergence of the most distinctive and poetic voice in the history of American popular music.
A near-fatal motorcycle accident on July 29, 1966, proved a blessing in disguise, allowing Dylan to retreat to the solitude of his home in Woodstock, New York.
While Dylan had toured regularly since returning to the stage with the Band in 1974, beginning in the mid-eighties he hit the road full-time, first with all-star cronies Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers and the Grateful Dead, then, starting in 1988, with a small rock combo led by guitarist and Saturday Night Live musical director G.E. Smith.
Time Out of Mind, which was released in September 1997, became Dylan's first gold record of the decade. He continues to tour.
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