  Bob Dylan was born Robert Allen
Zimmerman on May 24th, 1941. While growing up
in Minnesota, Dylan began building his
appreciation for music and learning how to
create his own music. He was on his way to
becoming one of the most influential
songwriters and folk performers in music
history.
Dylan headed to New York at the
start of the 60s on a mission to meet his
idol Woody Guthrie and
pursue his music interests. Interest in
Dylan's music began to increase as he played
at various coffee houses in the city, opened
for John Lee Hooker, and played harmonica
on an LP by Harry Belafonte.
This exposure led to a record deal with
Columbia Records.
 Dylan released his first LP, Bob
Dylan and began writing many of his
famous protest songs.
Record sales improved with his
second release The
Freewheelin' Bob Dylan which was
embraced by the folk music critics and fans
and included the tracks "A Hard Rain's
A-Gonna Fall" and "Blowin' In The
Wind." The LP became his first of many
platinum recordings.
 Dylan released The
Times They Are A-Changin',
Dylan released Another
Side Of Bob Dylan - which had more of a
blues influence.
Dylan interspersed his music
with political activism and folk renditions,
and had also began a relationship with Joan
Baez.
 Dylan released Bringing
It All Back Home.
Dylan released Highway
61 Revisited and his music had turned away
from his folk roots resulting in disdain from
many of his fans. Dylan's change in music
style resulted in him being booed at the
Newport Folk Festival.
Dylan had a pop hit with
"Like A Rolling Stone" and spent
much of the year touring, including a tour
with The Band.
 Dylan released Blonde
On Blonde and continued touring with The
Band to poor audience responses.
Dylan's touring days ended for a
few years when he was in a serious motorcycle
accident - he crashed his motorcycle in New
York resulting in several broken neck
vertebrae and a concussion. Dylan was in
serious condition for a week.
 Dylan released Bob
Dylan's Greatest Hits.
Dylan released John
Wesley Harding.
 Dylan released Nashville
Skyline as he continued to keep himself
secluded with few public appearances or
performances.
Dylan released Self
Portrait, a collection of mostly cover
tunes. The LP received poor responses from
music critics.
 New
Morning was released to a
better response.
Dylan released a collection of
poems and narratives - Tarantula.
 Dylan took part in the Bangla
Desh benefit concert held in New York.
Bob
Dylan's Greatest Hits, Vol. 2 was released.
Dylan won a Grammy Award for Album of the Year for The
Concert For Bangla Desh (with George
Harrison, Eric
Clapton, Ravi Shanker,
Leon Russell, Ringo
Starr, Billy
Preston, and Klaus Voormann).
 Dylan wrote the music for the
film, Pat
Garrett And Billy The Kid which also
featured a small role for Dylan.
A conflict with his record
company resulted in the release of Dylan - a collection of
unreleased materials consisting of outtakes.
 Dylan released Planet
Waves.
Dylan released Before
The Flood with The Band
and resumed touring.
 Dylan released the critically
acclaimed, Blood
On The Tracks.
Dylan released The
Basement Tapes - a collection of tracks Dylan
recorded with The Band in
the 60s.
 Dylan released Desire which topped
the LP charts.
Dylan released another live LP, Hard
Rain.
Dylan could be seen at The
Band's last concert which was made
into the film The
Last Waltz.
 Dylan released LP Street
Legal.
Dylan released Live
At Budokan - a concert from February,
1978.
 With a interest in Christianity,
Dylan released a gospel LP, Slow
Train Coming with the hit
"Gotta Serve Somebody."
Dylan converted his religion and
became a born-again Christian.
 Dylan won a Grammy
Award for Best Rock Vocal Performance -
Male
("Gotta Serve Somebody").
Dylan released his second gospel
LP, Saved.
 Dylan released Shot
Of Love - his last gospel LP.
Dylan was inducted into the
Songwriter's Hall of Fame.
 Dylan released Infidels produced by Mark Knopfler.
Dylan released the live LP, Real
Live In Europe, 1984.
 Dylan released Empire
Burlesque.
Dylan released the box set, Biograph.
Dylan took part in Farm Aid,
Live Aid, "Artists Against
Apartheid," and was a member of USA
For Africa ("We Are The
World").
 Dylan released Knocked
Out Loaded and toured with Tom
Petty & The Heartbreakers.
Dylan appeared in the film Knocked
Hearts Of Fire.
 Dylan released Dylan
And The Dead with the Grateful
Dead.
Dylan released Down
In The Groove.
Dylan had success as part of the
collaboration, Traveling Wilburys
with George
Harrison, Roy Orbison, Jeff Lynne,
and Tom
Petty and released The
Traveling Wilburys, Vol. 1.
 Dylan was inducted into the Rock
& Roll Hall of Fame.
Dylan released Oh
Mercy with the favorite
"Everything Is Broken."
Dylan won a Grammy
Award for Best Rock Vocal Performance by a
Duo or Group as part of the Traveling
Wilburys (Traveling
Wilburys Volume One).
Dylan released Under
The Red Sky.
The Traveling Wiburys
released their 2nd LP The
Traveling Wilburys, Vol. 3.
 Dylan was awarded with a
Lifetime Achievement Award at the Grammy
Awards.
Dylan released The
Bootleg Series, Volumes 1-3, Rare And
Unreleased 1961-1989.
Dylan was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Music Video, Short Form ("Series Of
Dreams").
 Dylan released a collection of
cover tunes with Good
As I Been To You.
A tribute concert was also held
in Dylan's honor in New York.
Dylan's tribute concert was
released as The
30th Anniversary Concert Celebration.
 Dylan released World
Gone Wrong.
Rolling
Stone: "The 100 Top Music Videos" included
"Subterranean Homesick Blues" at # 7
and
"Series Of Dreams" at # 42.
 Dylan was nominated for 2 Grammy Awards for Best Rock Vocal Performance by a
Duo or Group ("My Back Pages" with
Roger McGuinn, Tom
Petty, Neil Young, Eric
Clapton, George
Harrison) and Best Male Rock Vocal Performance ("All Along The
Watchtower").
Dylan performed at Woodstock
'94.
 Bob
Dylan's Greatest Hits, Vol. 3 was released.
Dylan appeared on MTV's acoustic
show, Unplugged.
Dylan won a Grammy Award for Best Traditional
Folk Album (World
Gone Wrong).
 Dylan released MTV
Unplugged.
Dylan was nominated for a few Grammy Awards including Best
Contemporary Folk Album (MTV
Unplugged), Best Rock Vocal Performance -
Male
("Knockin' On Heaven's Door), and Best Rock Song ("Dignity").
Rock
'N Roll Hall Of Fame's 500
Songs That Shaped Rock And Roll includes "Blowin'
In The Wind," "Like A Rolling
Stone," "Subterranean Homesick
Blues," "Tangled Up In Blue,"
and "The Time They Are A-Changin'."
Dylan canceled a European tour
after being admitted to the hospital for
chest pains which turned out to be an
inflamation of the sac around his heart.
Dylan toured North America with Ani DiFranco.
 Dylan sang for Pope John Paul II
in Bologna. The performance was part of the
Eucharistic Congress, a weeklong religious
congress focusing on youth and the future.
The Jewish-born, Dylan sang "Knocking On
Heaven's Door," "Forever
Young," and "Hard Rain" to the
crowd of over 400,000. The pope also
referenced Dylan's classic "Blowing In
The Wind" when he addressed the crowd.
Dylan released Time
Out Of Mind which revitalized his music
with critics and a younger audience.
Critics of Rolling
Stone named Time
Out Of Mind the Best Album of the Year.
Dylan won 3 Grammy Awards for Best Rock Vocal Performance -
Male
("Cold Iron Bound"), Album of the Year, and Best Contemporary
Folk Album (Time
Out Of Mind). While Dylan was singing his
song "Love Sick" at the ceremony, a
shirtless man appeared on stage with him and
danced to the music until he was escorted
off-stage. Dylan was unfazed by the man who
had "Soy Bomb" painted on his
chest.
Ranked # 5 on VH1: Greatest
Artists of Rock & Roll (and
# 13 on Rock On The Net's
Poll).
 Dylan released another in his
series of live bootleg recordings: Live
1966: The Royal Albert Hall Concert - The
Bootleg Series Vol. 4.
Dylan kicked off a tour sharing
the bill with Paul
Simon. Dylan said of Simon in USA
Today: "he's written extraordinary
songs, hasn't he? I consider him one of the
pre-eminent songwriters of the times."
VH1: 100
Greatest Rock Songs includes # 4 | 
