DID YOU KNOW THAT BOB DYLAN

1. Dylan purchased a 10-bedroom mansion in the Scottish Highlands in 2006 for more than £5m.
2. He is said to be “the jester” in Don McLean’s song “American Pie”.
3. He has been nominated for the Nobel Prize for literature for the past four years in a row.
4. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame by Bruce Springsteen.
5. He was born Jewish by faith but became a born-again Christian in the 1970s.
6. In 1977 he announced he is no longer a follower of any organised religion.
7. His songs have been covered by about 2,000 artists.
8. He has made 43 albums.
9. He has recorded under several pseudonyms including, Bob Landy, Blind Boy Grunt, Robert Milkwood Thomas, Roosevelt Gook and Elston Gunn. He said in an interview in 2004: “You’re born, you know, the wrong names, wrong parents. I mean, that happens. You call yourself what you want to call yourself. This is the land of the free.”
10. He frequently wears the same socks two days in a row.
11. While studying at the University of Minnesota, he received a D+ for music appreciation. He didn’t last long and left after missing classes.
12. He was secretly married for six years to his backing singer Carol Dennis. They had a daughter called Desiree Gabrielle Dennis-Dylan.
13. He dated the model, actress and muse of Andy Warhol, Edie Sedgwick.
14. He turned down an offer to headline Woodstock in 1969.
15. He received an honorary doctorate from Princeton University in 1970.
16. Dylan introduced the Beatles to marijuana in 1964 at the Delmonico Hotel, New York.
17. He recorded some songs with John Lennon while he was on tour in the UK and was reported to have said: “We played some stuff into a tape recorder, but I don’t know what happened to it. I don’t remember anything about the song.”
18. He was a member of the Traveling Wilburys along with Tom Petty, Roy Orbison, ex-Beatle George Harrison, and Jeff Lynne of Electric Light Orchestra.
19. Dylan has nine grandchildren.
20. After dropping out of university, he hitchhiked from Minnesota to New York, earning money from odd jobs.deja vù

Five random facts about Bob Dylan:

Five random facts about Bob Dylan:

- He taught himself how to play piano, guitar, and also harmonica
- One of his idols were Woody Guthrie
- He has a younger brother named David Zimmerman
- He was born May 24, 1941
- He played during The March on Washington where MLKJ gave his "I have a dream" Speech.
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Ten Things About... Bob Dylan

 Bob was born in Duluth, Minnesota to Robert Allen Zimmerman on May 24, 1941. His grandparents had come to America as Russian and Lithuanian immigrants in the early years of the century.

2. When he started hanging around the Minnesota Dinkytown folk circuit, Robert took to introducing himself as "Bob Dylan" - inspired by famous drunk/literary genius Dylan Thomas. He legally changed his name in 1962.

3. Bob's so-called treachery in moving from folk to rock in the middle of the '60s is well known, but he actually was a rock 'n' roller first. His 1959 yearbook stated that his ambition was "to follow Little Richard" and one of his early bands The Golden Chords had the mic cut off by the principal during their super-loud cover of 'Rock and Roll Is Here To Stay'.

4.... but that switch back caused all sorts of problems! At Manchester's Free Trade Hall, an angry crowd member yelled out "Judas!" before the final number 'Like A Rolling Stone'. Dylan mumbled "I don't believe you... you're a liar" in response before telling his band to "Play it f**king loud!". A few people have claimed to be the shouter in the years since. John Cordwell says that he yelled it because of Dylan's "throwaway performance" and "wall of mush" sound. Another possible yeller Keith Butler says that he looks back at himself and thinks "you silly young bugger".

5. Bob suffered a mysterious motorcycle accident in 1966, crashing his 500cc Triumph Tiger 100 near his Woodstock home. Little is known about how badly hurt Bob really was, but he used the accident to "get out of the rat race", limiting his public appearances for a decade or so after.

6. Born Jewish, Dylan became a born-again Christian in the late '70s ( though he rejected that label). His gospel period spanned two LPs - 1979's Slow Train Coming and the following year's Saved. Apparently Bob tried to convince producer Jerry Wrexler of Christ's godliness during the recording, prompting him to say: "Bob, you're dealing with a 62-year-old Jewish atheist. Let's just make an album." He reportedly switched back to Judaism quietly years later. Bob was called up in a synagogue a few years ago, but that didn't stop him releasing seasonal LP Christmas In The Heart in 2009.

7. Some people cheekily call 'Subterranean Homesick Blues' one of the first rap records, but he actually made a much more unambiguous contribution to the genre in 1986. If Dylan going electric had people in a tizz and his going country and then gospel confused them more, then his hip-hop hook-up with Kurtis Blow on 'Street Rock' will have them just plain speechless!

8. Bob married Sara Lownds in 1965. She inspired Blonde on Blonde's 'Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands' (see what he did there!) and Desire's Sara. Their split in the '70s was the spark that lit his best album for years - 1975's Blood on the Tracks - and they divorced in 1977. Bob secretly married backing singer Carolyn Dennis in 1986 and they divorced in 1992. He has a clutch of kids, one of whom - Jakob - is the lead singer of The Wallflowers.

9. Dylan attracted some controversy after playing 'Ballad of Hollis Brown' with Rolling Stones Keith Richards and Ronnie Wood at Live Aid in 1985. He wondered aloud if organisers could spare "one or two million" dollars from the money raised for Africa to "pay the mortgages on some of the farms" back in the US. Fellow legend Willie Nelson later backed Bob with the Farm Aid events and helped secure the Agricultural Credit Act of 1987.

10. Hailed as a poet, a visionary, a prophet and the rest, Bob struggled with all the labels flung upon him in the early 1960s. He tried to shake off the tags with musical shifts and rubbish albums (Self Portrait), but perhaps only really succeeded with his 2004 appearance on a Victoria's Secret advert. Sexy Bob!DEJA VÙ