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A Short Biography of Bob Dylan

Author Name:

Bob Dylan

Born As:

Robert Allen Zimmerman

Other Names:

Bob Dylan

Born:

24 May 1941

Died:





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Singer and songwriter                          
Selected Works:

Studio albums:

The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan · The Times They Are a-Changin' · Another Side of Bob Dylan · Bringing It All Back Home · Highway 61 Revisited · Blonde on Blonde · John Wesley Harding · Nashville Skyline · Self Portrait · New Morning · Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid · Dylan · Planet Waves · Blood on the Tracks · The Basement Tapes · Desire · Street Legal · Slow Train Coming · Saved · Shot of Love · Infidels · Empire Burlesque · Knocked Out Loaded · Down in the Groove · Oh Mercy · Under the Red Sky · Good as I Been to You · World Gone Wrong · Time out of Mind · Love and Theft · Modern Times

Live albums:

The Concert for Bangladesh · Before the Flood · Hard Rain · Bob Dylan at Budokan · Real Live · Dylan & The Dead · The 30th Anniversary Concert Celebration · MTV Unplugged · Live 1961-2000: Thirty-Nine Years of Great Concert Performances · Live at The Gaslight 1962 · Live at Carnegie Hall 1963

Traveling Wilburys:	

Traveling Wilburys Vol. 1 · Traveling Wilburys Vol. 3 · The Traveling Wilburys Collection

Compilations:

Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits · Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits Vol. II · Masterpieces · Biograph · Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits Volume 3 · The Essential Bob Dylan · Bob Dylan: The Collection · Dylan

The Bootleg Series:	

Volumes 1–3 (Rare & Unreleased) 1961–1991 · Vol. 4: Bob Dylan Live 1966, The "Royal Albert Hall" Concert · Vol. 5: Bob Dylan Live 1975, The Rolling Thunder Revue · Vol. 6: Bob Dylan Live 1964, Concert at Philharmonic Hall · Vol. 7: No Direction Home: The Soundtrack

Concerts & Tours:	

Going Electric at Newport -1965 
The Concert for Bangladesh - 1971
Tour with The Band - 1974 
Rolling Thunder Revue - 1975 
 Never Ending Tour - 1988-present

Films:

Dont Look Back · Eat the Document · Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid · Renaldo and Clara · Hearts of Fire · Masked and Anonymous · No Direction Home · Renaldo and Clara · I'm Not There · 65 Revisited · The Other Side of the Mirror: Bob Dylan Live at the Newport Folk Festival 1963-1965

Writings:	

Tarantula · Writings and Drawings · Lyrics: 1962–1985 · Drawn Blank · Chronicles, Vol. 1  · Lyrics: 1962–2001.                                              
Paternal grandparents, Zigman and Anna Zimmerman, emigrated from Odessa in Ukraine to the United States after the antisemitic pogroms of 1905.
Mother Beatrice  Stone
Father Abram Zimmerman
Dylan married Sara Lownds born as Shirley Marlin Noznisky -  four children: Jesse Byron, Anna Lea, Samuel Isaac Abraham, and Jakob Luke.

Dylan also adopted Sara Lownds' daughter from a prior marriage, Maria Lownds, later changed to Dylan.

In the 1990s the youngest of his children, Jakob Dylan, became well known as the lead singer of the band The Wallflowers. Jesse Dylan is a film director and 
businessman.


Bob and Sara Dylan divorced 1977.
Dylan married his longtime backup singer Carolyn Dennis in 1986, daughter, Desiree Gabrielle Dennis-Dylan, was born in 1986. Divorced in 1992.