Happy 80th birthday, Bob Dylan!
The Dylan song we need. Right now.
Bob Dylan, Nobel laureate
“How does it feel?” for Bob Dylan to turn 80, as he does today.
In 1963, as he was preparing to play a concert at Carnegie Hall, he told an interviewer: “My past is so complicated you wouldn’t believe it, man.”
No, it actually wasn’t complicated at all.
Robert Allen Zimmerman was born on this day in 1941, in Hibbing, Minnesota. The Zimmermans attended the local synagogue. His father, Abe Zimmerman, was the president of the local Bnai Brith lodge. His mother, Beatty, was the president of the local Hadassah chapter. Young Bobby went to Camp Herzl. At the University of Minnesota, he was a member of Sigma Alpha Mu, a nominally Jewish fraternity.
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80 things you should know about Bob Dylan on his 80th birthday Instead of candles, here are 80 things to celebrate about the Minnesota-born birthday boy. May 20, 2021 9:02am Text size Copy shortlink:
He may stay forever young, but the calendar says Bob Dylan will turn 80 on Monday.
The pandemic knocked the revered singer-songwriter off the road for the first time in more than three decades, but he responded with his first album of original material in eight years, the exceptional Rough and Rowdy Ways. And we know he s not done.
As we look forward to his return to the stage (hopefully this fall) and the opening of the Bob Dylan Center in Tulsa, Okla., housing his personal archives (in May 2022), we offer eight Top 10 lists about Minnesota s greatest living music icon from songs guaranteed to beat the pandemic blues to things we hope Dylan will do while he keeps pressing on.