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.
St. Louis County Board will proclaim Year of Dylan on Tuesday
The proclamation is in conjunction with yearlong festivities surrounding the 80th birthday of the musical icon born in Duluth and raised in Hibbing. 12:28 pm, May 3, 2021 ×
Bob Dylan performs at Bayfront Festival Park on Tuesday July 9, 2013. (Clint Austin / File / News Tribune)
The St. Louis County Board will celebrate Bob Dylan and his upcoming 80th birthday at its meeting in Duluth on Tuesday.
Commissioners will proclaim the Year of Dylan set to begin on Dylan s birthday, May 24, and lasting until the iconic troubadour s 81st birthday in 2022.
Referring to Dylan as a cultural giant, the proclamation outlines his birth at St. Mary s Hospital in Duluth in 1941, and his years growing up in Hibbing.
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