By Syndicated Content FRED TANNEAU/AFP/GettyImages Bob Dylan celebrates his 80th birthday today. The singer/songwriter born Robert Zimmerman on May 24, 1941, in Duluth, Minnesota, and raised in nearby Hibbing, has gone on to change the landscape of the popular music with his poetic, lyrical and topical songs. Early in his career, Dylan emerged as a leader of the folk music revival. Influenced greatly by Woody Guthrie and traditional American roots music, as well as Beat Generation poets and authors, Dylan began writing enduring songs like “Blowin’ in the Wind” and “The Times They Are a-Changin'” that were embraced by the antiwar and civil-rights movements.