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Bob Dylan
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many roads must a man walk down Before you call him a man? Yes, 'n' how many seas must a white dove sail Before she sleeps in the sand? Yes, 'n' how many times must the cannon balls fly Before they're forever banned? The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind, The answer is blowin' in the wind. How many times must a man look up How many years can a mountain exist
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Bob Dylan (Robert Allen Zimmerman) was born 24 May 1941, Duluth, Minnesota, Usa. Dylan's impact on the folk scene of Greenwich Village was immediate and enormous. He came the attention of producer John Hammond, who signed him to Columbia Records in Autumn 1961. His first album, called simply Bob Dylan, was released in March 1961. Over the next few months, Dylan wrote dozens of songs. He became interested in the Civil Rights movement and his song "Blowin' In The Wind", written in April 1962, was to be the most famous of his protest songs and was included on his second album The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan, released in May 1963. In the meantime, Dylan had written and recorded several other political songs, including "Masters Of War" and "A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall", and "Don"t Think Twice, It's All Right'. At the end of 1962, he recorded a single, a rock 'n' roll song called "Mixed Up Confusion". At the end of 1962, Joan Baez first began to play a prominent part in his life. Dylan's songwriting perspectives underwent a huge change in 1964. Dylan sloughed off the expectations of the old folky crowd, and, influenced by his reading the poetry of John Keats and French symbolist Arthur Rimbaud, began to expand his own poetic consciousness. He then wrote the songs that made up his fourth record, Another Side Of Bob Dylan - including "My Back Pages" and "Chimes Of Freedom". The song that was perhaps Dylan's most important mid-60s composition, "Like A Rolling Stone", was written immediately after the final series of acoustic concerts played in the UK in April and May 1965. Dylan chose to avoid the Woodstock Festival but he did play at the Isle Of Wight Festival on 31 August 1969. In 1971, Dylan appeared at the Concert For Bangladesh benefit, his only live performance between 1970 and 1974, and in November of the same year released "George Jackson". In 1973 Dylan left Columbia Records. In 1979, Dylan released an album of evangelical songs, Slow Train Coming, recorded with Jerry Wexler and Barry Beckett, and featuring Mark Knopfler and Pick Withers from Dire Straits. After three turbulent years, again with Mark Knopfler, having written a prolific amount of new material. The album that resulted, "Infidels", released in October 1983, received a mixed reception. In 1988 he found himself in the unlikely company of George Harrison, Jeff Lynne, Tom Petty and Roy Orbison, a jokey rock band. Their album, Volume 1, on which Dylan's voice was as prominent as anyone's, was, unexpectedly, a huge commercial success. Both Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood recorded excellent versions for the movie soundtrack Hope Floats in 1998. Dylan's first recording of the new millennium was "Things Have Changed", the Grammy-award winning main and end-title theme for Curtis Hanson's movie Wonder Boys. | ||
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