BOB DYLAN

(b. 1941)

Son of Abe and Beattie Zimmermann Robert Allen was born in Duluth, Minnesota, just before America′s entry into World War II. Bobby grew up in nearby Hibbing - inhabited mostly by Christians, a small town Midwest. As in much of America, people have access to culture through radio, television and the nascent film. Films "rebel without an ideal" James Dean and "savage" Marlon Brando led the impressionable young Zimmerman to change his clothes and his relation to society. Being a very creative person, who wrote poems and uchivsheysya to play the piano, guitar and harmonica, Bobby carried away rock and roll 1950′s. , Enjoying the night transfers Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis and Little Richard and imitate them.

That original Rock changed his life - he wanted to become only the star of rock ′n′ roll.

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In high school, and during the brief studies at the University of Minnesota, Bob tried a number of small clubs and coffee houses. His music was primitive - not an easy diet deprecatory Teba Hunter and Fabian, and spontaneous and piercing, somewhat vague, but sharp. He changed his name to "Dylan" in honor of the great and rebellious Wales poet Dylan Thomas. A Jew by birth, Zimmerman became Celtic Dylan. Soon Bob also recognizes that only folk music, not rock-n-roll could he find his true musical and artistic vocation and completed his much-coveted personal metamorphosis.

Not being a "Handsome" like many rock stars of his generation, Dylan felt a special affinity for roughly tailored folk songs by Woody Guthrie. Turned into a sort of Woody teenager, going to glory, Dylan singing scratchy voice and a sharp, uncompromising neglecting soft timbre.

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In a purely American Speech-song, he re-interpreted classic folk music of almost Guthrie, Pete Seeger and the other with a very exciting inventiveness. At the end of the second and early third-dozen Dylan began to compose music, and his first completed work was a send-off "Song Woody.

He began to act now become a mythical club "city folk Gerdes" in Greenwich Village in New York. "Folklore city was a hotbed of postwar popular music, where every night improvising with Judy Collins, Peter Yarrow, Paul Knock, Mary Travers, Richie Heyvens, Tom Paxton, Phil Ochs and Buffy the Saint-Marie. At that time, most of them lived in poverty, always in search of food. Speeches Dylan in "Folklore City" attracted the attention of a major producer of phonograph records (and her husband, Benny Goodman), John Hammond.

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The important role of the latter in the development of American folk music is well known for working with such artists as Billie Holiday and Bruce Springsteen. Hammond, along with the company "Columbia Records" published in 1962 the first album of Dylan. A year later, at twenty-three years, Bob Dylan composed "Blossoming in the Wind". This song, being popularized by the "Pete, Paul and Mary, became a landmark for a generation.

In the early 1960′s. Dylan was singing the national poet of protest, gaining its reputation actual poetic commentary about the conditions of our lives. His book, "The times they are changing" in 1963 reflected the significant steps made to the liberation of man, and the loss of innocence in those heady days when John Kennedy was still president and Vietnam was known mainly geographers.

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Dylan shocked the fans of folk music, when delivered at the Newport folk festival in 1965 with an electric guitar, accompanied by a rock band. His "Mr. singer on a tambourine" and "Like a rolling stone," declared the merger folklore with rock. The tireless throughout his career and never do not follow a uniform style for a long time, Dylan again changed his style (after a nearly crushed to death on a motorcycle and lost his ability to work for almost two years in the late 1960′s. ) Combining country music and Westerns with folklore and rock. This style is softened in the 1970-ies. When Dylan′s music became more personal, focusing on their own experiences. He did not stop to explore other influences, and his unique creativity was influenced by Latin American, Caribbean and black music.

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Private Dylan′s life reflected his creative quest. Born a Jew, he flirted with the newly emerged fundamentalist Christianity, the early 1980′s. To go back later to Orthodox Judaism (he was, for example, is associated with the Lubavitcher Hasidic movement and its charismatic chief Rabbi Menachem Schneerson).

Dylan′s quest to combine different styles influenced many stars of folk music. Like John Cage in classical music and jazz musicians Dizzy Gillespie, Dylan did not allow himself to be limited by any standards, and sought to express in a very personal (sometimes quixotic) the manner of rage and hatred, melancholy, hope and desires of modern life.