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