Bob Dylan
November 1960 Today was my last official day at the University of Minnesota. I have decided to move to New York and where my idol, the legendary folk singer Woody Guthrie, is hospitalized with a rare hereditary disease of the nervous system. For the past 19 years I have been living with my parents in Dunluth, Minnesota. I was born Robert Allen Zimmerman on May 24, 1941. My father, Abe Zimmerman works for a standard oil company and my grandparents were Jewish Russian immigrants. In 1947 we moved to the small town of Hibbing. I started writing poems and songs when I was ten and mid way through my teens I taught myself rudimentary piano and guitar. Last year I graduated High School and decided to attend the University of Minnesota. My influences in the past years have been Elvis Presley, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis and other early rock stars. I played in bands all through my teens. I had so much fun playing in those bands. I often laugh when I think about those band names such as the Golden Chords and Elston Gunn and the Boppers. My goal at this time was to be just like Little Richard. He was my idol and I wanted to be just like him. I love all types of music, Country, Rock, Jazz, and of course Folk. I headed off to college in th
Come writers and critics Who prophesize with your pen And keep your eyes wide The chance won't come again And don't speak too soon For the wheel's still in spin And there's no tellin' who That it's namin'. Paul's Purple Onion Pizza Parlor, honing my guitar and harmonica work and developing the expressive nasal voice that would become the nucleus of my soon to be trademark sound. html) January 1963 Today is a very special day for me. I have gone from Robert Allen Zimmerman to Bob Dylan as people know me as. Please get out of the new one If you can't lend your hand For the times they are a-changin'. It is a world of embittered immigrants ("I Pity the Poor Immigrant"), of frivolous and materialistic women ("Sad- Eyed Lady of the Lowlands"). Blowin' in the Wind," establishing me as a political figure, one of the most popular folk musicians and a songwriter in my own right. 12 & 35" and "Positively 4th Street," the album was a commercial as well as an artistic success. Mainly because in the last five years I have been very busy.
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