Another Side of Bob Dylan

BOB DYLAN One of the most legendary names in the American music industry is no one else but the singer-songwriter Bob Dylan. The influence he made in popular music last for more than five decades and still echoed through generations till this very day. Bob Dylan was born Robert Allen Zimmerman on May 24, 1941, in Duluth, Minnesota and raised in Hibbing, Minnesota, USA. Dylan’s parents Abram Zimmerman and Beatrice “Beatty” Stone were part of a tight local Jewish community. As a child, he learned how to play the guitar and harmonica, forming a rock & roll band named the Golden Chords when he was in high school. The band covered songs by Little Richard and Elvis Presley. After graduation in 1959, Zimmerman moved to Minneapolis and…

Beatles’ mainly produced pop hits for teens and were inspired to experiment with their creative abilities. Bob’s Freewheelin’ album made a huge impression on them. “For three weeks in Paris, we didn't stop playing it," Lennon stated. “We all went potty about Dylan.” It was his distinctive lyrics that captivated the band. As result, the band released more experimental types of songs such as “Norwegian Wood” and “Dig A Pony.” Guitar legend, Jimi Hendrix, absolutely adored Dylan. He is pictured…

Bob Dylan has used his multiple years of making music and writing countless poems to earn himself an outstanding award. He is the first musician to ever win the Nobel Prize Award for Literature and it has come with a lot of controversy. Even though some consider him not to be one of the best musicians, he is one of the most important poets and musicians of all time because he has expressed so many social and political concerns throughout his lyrics. His great works can be not only sung but also…

Jonah Lehrer talk drives directly into a listing of failures, errors and mea culpa. And that, people is how you apologize”(Ronson 45). When Lehrer starts mentioning forensic science the viewers change their opinions and still believe that he is a terrible, cheating person. Things get even worse when word gets out that he was paid to give the apology speech. Not only is Lehrer filled with regret and shame but Moynihan also feels terrible because he isn’t paid as much as he thought and fellow…

This story was dedicated to one of the most legendary musicians—Bob Dylan. Arnold Friend was described to have “shaggy black hair that looked crazy like a wig, and a long, hawk-like nose” (Oates…). When Arnold Friend and his friend Ellie Oscar appeared at Connie’s house, the song that played on Ellie’s radio was performed by an artist known as Bobby King. According to Tierce and Crafton, Bobby King is a reference to Bob Dylan. Dylan’s song “Mr. Tambourine Man” could have been the song playing on…

and the real world. In 1958, at age 14, Harrison joined a band that would soon change his life forever. Harrison was friends with another student at his school named Paul McCartney. McCartney was already in a band with seventeen year old John Lennon, but they were lacking a good guitar player. McCartney mentioned to Lennon that he knew someone who could play for them. McCartney and Lennon were both older than Harrison, which made Lennon hesitant in inviting Harrison to join the band. One night,…

industry did things. (Also women who broke norms might not sell as many records as those who conformed). She challenged the music industries standards of women to help usher in a new age for women in the music performing industry. 3. Using one example from each, describe the differences between Motown and Southern Soul. Even though Motown and Southern Soul were both (mostly) African American expressions of music, the two genres had many differences. Motown started in 1959 in Detroit with the…

Artists’ Collective that began to connect women in many different ways, and began to give women a voice in a male-dominated art culture (Tobin 120). This new-found voice gave women the confidence to express themselves and start a second wave of feminism. Studies show another movement influenced by art, specifically music, is the civil rights movement. From Music and Movements: The Tradition Continues, a blog post published in The Huffington Post, Peter Dreier, Distinguished Professor of Politics…

those in the higher power of the American society. Bob Dylan’s folk music was still relevant during the Vietnam War, and Cuban Misle crisis. People could identify with Dylan’s “Hard rain” as the song talk about the destructive world with themes of pollution, hunger, war, and racism. Bob Dylan’s “Master of War” song also addressed the Vietnam…

Long hair and beard was another characteristic of that decade. Jeans and sports shirts replaced wide pants, jackets and ties. The consumption of illegal drugs increased. Rock and roll prevailed and gave rise to many musical variants. Heavy rock was a success and the singer Bob Dylan became very famous in those days. The youthful counterculture culminated in August 1969 at Woodstock, a three-day New York State music festival held in New York, attended by nearly half a million people. The festival…