1. 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!www.realty-dejavu.com
sábado, 7 de abril de 2012
FACTS ABOUT BOB DYLAN
50 fascinating facts for Bob Dylan's 50th birthday
Bob Dylan will turn 50 Friday. He was born in Duluth, moved to Hibbing when he was 6, and you know much of the rest of the story.
Here are 50 facts about Dylan that maybe you didn't know.
1. Most reference books list Robert Allen Zimmerman's birth date as May 24, 1941. But a passport issued to Robert Dylan in 1974 says his birth date is May 11, 1941.
2. Robert Allen Zimmerman received a D-plus in a music-appreciation class at the University of Minnesota.
3. In 1970 Dylan received an honorary doctorate of music from Princeton University.
4. Dylan's reputation has long been larger than his record sales. His best-selling album is "Greatest Hits" (1967), which has been certified double-platinum, meaning it has sold between 2 million and 3 million copies. Runner-up is "Greatest Hits - Vol. II" (1971), a million-seller; Columbia Records doesn't release sales figures, but a representative said "Vol. II" is nearing double-platinum. The next bestsellers are "Desire" ('76) and "Blood on the Tracks" ('75), both of which have achieved platinum status.
5. None of Dylan's singles has ever reached No. 1 on Billboard's pop chart. "Like a Rolling Stone" (1965) peaked at No. 2, as did "Rainy Day Women #12 & 35" ('66).
6. The Byrds flew to No. 1 in '65 with a version of Dylan's "Mr. Tambourine Man."
7. "Blowin' in the Wind" is the only Dylan tune to hit the Top 10 twice - in 1963 by Peter, Paul & Mary, when it carried to No. 2, and in '66, when Stevie Wonder took it to No. 9.
8. Under his senior photo in the Hibbing High School yearbook, Zimmerman said he wanted "to join Little Richard."
9. In the summer of 1959 Zimmerman played piano in Bobby Vee's band - for two gigs.
10. Dylan's harmonica is heard on records by Harry Belafonte, George Harrison, Steve Goodman, Roger McGuinn, Booker T. and Priscilla Jones, Doug Sahm, Carolyn Hester, Ramblin' Jack Elliott and Sly & Robbie.
11. Among the pseudonyms Dylan has used when appearing on others' records have been Blind Boy Grunt, Tedham Porterhouse, Robert Milkwood Thomas, Roosevelt Gook and Bob Landy.
12. The Minnesota Historical Society lists 97 Dylan items in its reference library. Included are a 1987 Ph.D. thesis by a Purdue University student, five fanzines, 17 books and articles published in Germany, one children's book, and Dylan's original, hand-written lyric sheet for "Temporary Like Achilles," a 1966 song on "Blonde on Blonde." The Historical Society bought it from a collector in 1988. The most interesting title in the society's collection is "Mysteriously Saved: An Astrological Investigation into Bob Dylan's Conversion to American Fundamentalism" by John Ledbury. Bob Spitz's 1989 tome, "Dylan," is the biggest item, at 639 pages.
13. Little Sandy Review, a mimeographed Twin Cities rag about folk music published in the late '50s and early '60s, was the first source to reveal that Zimmerman had invented Dylan. Little Sandy editor Paul Nelson later became a key editor at Rolling Stone.
14. Dylan adapted "Blowin' in the Wind" from a spiritual, "No More Auction Block," which is also known as "Many Thousands Gone."
15. Dylan was scheduled to appear on "The Ed Sullivan Show" on May 12, 1963, with Irving Berlin, Al Hirt, Rip Taylor, Teresa Brewer, Myron Cohen and Topo Gigio, the Italian mouse. Dylan was going to sing "Blowin' in the Wind" and "Talkin' John Birch Paranoid Blues." During the dress rehearsal, he was told that "John Birch" was deemed too controversial by network censors, and program producer Bob Precht, whose idea it was to invite Dylan on the show, asked him to sing another song. Dylan declined and did not appear.
16. "Talkin' John Birch Paranoid Blues" was scheduled to be included on Dylan 's second album, "The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan." Columbia Records got paranoid, recalled the album and removed the song.
17. On June 7, 1969, Dylan sang "I Threw It All Away" and "Living the Blues" on Johnny Cash's TV program. They sang a duet on "Girl from the North Country."
18. Dylan's first major U.S. TV appearance was on "The Steve Allen Show" in early '64.
19. In August 1969 Dylan made his first paid public performance since July 26, 1966, when he broke his neck in the crash of his Triumph 500 motorcycle. Backed by the Band, he performed in front of 200,000 people at England's Isle of Wight festival. He was paid $75,000 for a 70-minute performance.
20. Dylan flew his parents, Abe and Beatty Zimmerman, to New York to see him perform at Carnegie Hall on Oct. 12, 1963.
21. Dylan married Sara Lownds in an impromptu private ceremony Nov. 22, 1965, in a judge's chamber in Mineola, N.Y. Two days later the singer told an interviewer from the Chicago Daily News, "I don't hope to be like anybody. Getting married, having a bunch of kids, I have no hopes for it." Dylan's marriage was not announced until February 1966.
22. Sara Dylan received custody of the couple's four children in their 1977 divorce. A fifth child, Sara's daughter Maria Dylan, is married to singer-songwriter Peter Himmelman, formerly of St. Louis Park.
23. When Dylan accepted his Grammy for "Lifetime Achievement" in February, he said, "Well, my daddy didn't leave me too much . . . he was a very simple man." He shifted anxiously. "But he did say, `Son . . . it's possible to be so defiled in this world that your own mother and father will abandon you. And if this happens, God will always believe in your own ability to mend your ways.'"
24. Dylan won his first Grammy in 1980 for best rock vocal performance for the religious-oriented "Gotta Serve Somebody." "Slow Train Coming," the album on which the song appeared, was named best inspirational album at the Dove Awards, which recognize gospel recordings.
25. While attending the University of Minnesota in 1959 and '60 Zimmerman lived at the Sigma Alpha Mu fraternity house on University Av. and later above Gray's Campus Drug in Dinkytown. He performed at the Ten O'Clock Scholar coffeehouse, where the Dinkytown Burger King now stands.
26. Dylan's quasi-autobiographical 1977 movie, "Renaldo & Clara," was three hours and 57 minutes long. He portrayed Renaldo, while musician Ronnie Hawkins played a character named Bob Dylan. The film included 47 songs.
27. After taking a shellacking from critics, the movie was edited to about 90 minutes.
28. Dylan's first two movies were documentaries - "Don't Look Back," a look at his 1965 British tour, was released in '67, but did not receive widespread distribution until '75; "Eat This Document," which was shot in '66 for an ABC-TV special, was screened as a movie in '71.
29. Dylan is the author of two books. "Tarantula," which was rejected by Macmillan and Co. in 1965, was bootlegged in '70 and officially published in '71. "Writing and Drawings by Bob Dylan" was published in '73; it features 187 song lyrics, 17 drawings, 26 poems and five pages of manuscript.
30. Dylan phoned critic Robert Shelton of the New York Times to invite Shelton to review his performance Sept. 26, 1961, at Gerde's Folk City, opening for the Greenbriar Boys. It was considered audacious for an artist to ask a critic for a review - especially one from the Times. Dylan hoodwinked Shelton during an interview; among other things, Dylan said that when he was 13, he ran away and joined the circus and that he had recorded with Gene Vincent in Nashville, Tenn. Shelton's rave review launched Dylan's career.
31. In 1961, after rave reviews on the New York coffeehouse circuit, Dylan signed a three-year deal with Witmark & Sons to publish his songs. In three years Dylan wrote 237 songs for Witmark, including "Blowin' in the Wind," "A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall," "Masters of War," "With God on Our Side," "It Ain't Me Babe," "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right," "Only a Pawn in Their Game" and "Mr. Tambourine Man."
32. Dylan was a contributing editor to "Broadside," the folk-music magazine.
33. Judson Manning, the Time magazine correspondent belittled in "Ballad of a Thin Man" ("Because something is happening here/But you don't know what it is/ Do you, Mr. Jones?"), interviewed not only Dylan, but also Adolf Hitler.
34. Three Dylan songs begin with nearly the same line, "Early in the mornin'. . . ." The songs are "Obviously Five Believers," "Pledging My Time" and "Tangled Up in Blue" (which actually starts "Early one mornin' . . . ").
35. Although they never received credit on the liner notes (which had already been printed), a handful of Minnesota musicians appeared on a few tunes on "Blood on the Tracks" that were rerecorded at Sound 80 in Minneapolis in December 1974. The players included drummer Bill Berg, bassist Billy Peterson, fiddler-mandolinist Peter Ostroushko, keyboardist Gregg Inhofer and guitarists Kevin Odegard and Chris Weber.
36. Dylan introduced the Beatles to marijuana in August 1964 at the Delmonico Hotel in New York.
37. Columbia Records hired Bob Johnston to produce Dylan's "Highway 61 Revisited" sessions in Nashville as a reward for having returned Patti Page, a Columbia stalwart, to the charts with "Hush Hush, Sweet Charlotte."
38. Louis Kemp, Dylan's childhood friend, was hired as a staff member on Dylan's Rolling Thunder Revue in 1975. He now runs Louis Kemp Seafood Co.
39. In 1967, while recuperating from his motorcycle accident in Woodstock, N.Y., Dylan signed with MGM Records, home of the Righteous Brothers, the Lovin' Spoonful, Connie Francis and the late Hank Williams. MGM withdrew the contract on a technicality, and Dylan signed with Columbia.
40. When Dylan was wooed to Asylum Records in 1973, Columbia put out "Dylan " to spite him. The album of outtakes includes versions of Joni Mitchell's "Big Yellow Taxi" and Jerry Jeff Walker's "Mr. Bojangles."
41. After seeing Tiny Tim perform Dylan's "Positively Fourth Street" in California, Dylan summoned the fey singer to Woodstock in 1967. For Dylan, Tiny Tim did an impression of Rudy Vallee singing "Like a Rolling Stone" and an impression of Dylan singing Vallee's "There's No Time Like Your Time."
42. Among the duets Dylan has recorded for other artists' albums are "Buckets of Rain" with Bette Midler, "Sign Language" with Eric Clapton and "Don't Go Home with Your Hard-on" with Leonard Cohen.
43. The first time Dylan plugged in and played electric guitar at the Newport Folk Festival in 1965, he was accompanied by members of the Paul Butterfield Blues Band. Later that summer, at Forest Hills Stadium, Dylan rocked with, among others, two members of the Band, Robbie Robertson and Levon Helm.
44. The Zimmerman family home at 2524 7th Av. E. in Hibbing was sold in August 1990 for $50,000. It had been on the market for about nine months. Its previous owner, who reportedly bought it from the Zimmerman family, sold many items to a Dylan collector.
45. Imprisoned boxer Ruben (Hurricane) Carter wasn't the only prizefighter about whom Dylan sang. In 1963 Davey Moore was knocked out by Sugar Ramos and died two days later; 18 days later Dylan began singing "Who Killed Davey Moore?" The tune never appeared on record until this year's "Bootleg Series." Meanwhile, "Hurricane," about the boxer who was jailed on murder charges and later exonerated, was a modest hit in '76.
46. Hundreds of singers have recorded Dylan tunes. Otis Redding recorded "Just Like a Woman," but decided not to release his version because he couldn't get past the line, "with her fog, her amphetamine and her pearls."
47. Dylan and John Lennon once wrote and recorded a song together while Dylan was on tour in England. "I don't remember what it was, though," Dylan 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."
48. Since moving from Minneapolis to New York in 1960, Dylan has performed only five times in the Twin Cities - 1965 (at the Minneapolis Auditorium), '78 (St. Paul Civic Center), '86 (Metrodome), '89 (RiverFest at Harriet Island) and '90 (Minnesota State Fair).
49. "Bob Dylan," his first album, was recorded in a few hours at a cost of $402. Initially it sold 5,000 copies. Since then more than 35 million Dylan records have been sold.
50. Dylan is the first big-name rock figure from the '60s to turn 50.www.realty-dejavu.com
Here are 50 facts about Dylan that maybe you didn't know.
1. Most reference books list Robert Allen Zimmerman's birth date as May 24, 1941. But a passport issued to Robert Dylan in 1974 says his birth date is May 11, 1941.
2. Robert Allen Zimmerman received a D-plus in a music-appreciation class at the University of Minnesota.
3. In 1970 Dylan received an honorary doctorate of music from Princeton University.
4. Dylan's reputation has long been larger than his record sales. His best-selling album is "Greatest Hits" (1967), which has been certified double-platinum, meaning it has sold between 2 million and 3 million copies. Runner-up is "Greatest Hits - Vol. II" (1971), a million-seller; Columbia Records doesn't release sales figures, but a representative said "Vol. II" is nearing double-platinum. The next bestsellers are "Desire" ('76) and "Blood on the Tracks" ('75), both of which have achieved platinum status.
5. None of Dylan's singles has ever reached No. 1 on Billboard's pop chart. "Like a Rolling Stone" (1965) peaked at No. 2, as did "Rainy Day Women #12 & 35" ('66).
6. The Byrds flew to No. 1 in '65 with a version of Dylan's "Mr. Tambourine Man."
7. "Blowin' in the Wind" is the only Dylan tune to hit the Top 10 twice - in 1963 by Peter, Paul & Mary, when it carried to No. 2, and in '66, when Stevie Wonder took it to No. 9.
8. Under his senior photo in the Hibbing High School yearbook, Zimmerman said he wanted "to join Little Richard."
9. In the summer of 1959 Zimmerman played piano in Bobby Vee's band - for two gigs.
10. Dylan's harmonica is heard on records by Harry Belafonte, George Harrison, Steve Goodman, Roger McGuinn, Booker T. and Priscilla Jones, Doug Sahm, Carolyn Hester, Ramblin' Jack Elliott and Sly & Robbie.
11. Among the pseudonyms Dylan has used when appearing on others' records have been Blind Boy Grunt, Tedham Porterhouse, Robert Milkwood Thomas, Roosevelt Gook and Bob Landy.
12. The Minnesota Historical Society lists 97 Dylan items in its reference library. Included are a 1987 Ph.D. thesis by a Purdue University student, five fanzines, 17 books and articles published in Germany, one children's book, and Dylan's original, hand-written lyric sheet for "Temporary Like Achilles," a 1966 song on "Blonde on Blonde." The Historical Society bought it from a collector in 1988. The most interesting title in the society's collection is "Mysteriously Saved: An Astrological Investigation into Bob Dylan's Conversion to American Fundamentalism" by John Ledbury. Bob Spitz's 1989 tome, "Dylan," is the biggest item, at 639 pages.
13. Little Sandy Review, a mimeographed Twin Cities rag about folk music published in the late '50s and early '60s, was the first source to reveal that Zimmerman had invented Dylan. Little Sandy editor Paul Nelson later became a key editor at Rolling Stone.
14. Dylan adapted "Blowin' in the Wind" from a spiritual, "No More Auction Block," which is also known as "Many Thousands Gone."
15. Dylan was scheduled to appear on "The Ed Sullivan Show" on May 12, 1963, with Irving Berlin, Al Hirt, Rip Taylor, Teresa Brewer, Myron Cohen and Topo Gigio, the Italian mouse. Dylan was going to sing "Blowin' in the Wind" and "Talkin' John Birch Paranoid Blues." During the dress rehearsal, he was told that "John Birch" was deemed too controversial by network censors, and program producer Bob Precht, whose idea it was to invite Dylan on the show, asked him to sing another song. Dylan declined and did not appear.
16. "Talkin' John Birch Paranoid Blues" was scheduled to be included on Dylan 's second album, "The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan." Columbia Records got paranoid, recalled the album and removed the song.
17. On June 7, 1969, Dylan sang "I Threw It All Away" and "Living the Blues" on Johnny Cash's TV program. They sang a duet on "Girl from the North Country."
18. Dylan's first major U.S. TV appearance was on "The Steve Allen Show" in early '64.
19. In August 1969 Dylan made his first paid public performance since July 26, 1966, when he broke his neck in the crash of his Triumph 500 motorcycle. Backed by the Band, he performed in front of 200,000 people at England's Isle of Wight festival. He was paid $75,000 for a 70-minute performance.
20. Dylan flew his parents, Abe and Beatty Zimmerman, to New York to see him perform at Carnegie Hall on Oct. 12, 1963.
21. Dylan married Sara Lownds in an impromptu private ceremony Nov. 22, 1965, in a judge's chamber in Mineola, N.Y. Two days later the singer told an interviewer from the Chicago Daily News, "I don't hope to be like anybody. Getting married, having a bunch of kids, I have no hopes for it." Dylan's marriage was not announced until February 1966.
22. Sara Dylan received custody of the couple's four children in their 1977 divorce. A fifth child, Sara's daughter Maria Dylan, is married to singer-songwriter Peter Himmelman, formerly of St. Louis Park.
23. When Dylan accepted his Grammy for "Lifetime Achievement" in February, he said, "Well, my daddy didn't leave me too much . . . he was a very simple man." He shifted anxiously. "But he did say, `Son . . . it's possible to be so defiled in this world that your own mother and father will abandon you. And if this happens, God will always believe in your own ability to mend your ways.'"
24. Dylan won his first Grammy in 1980 for best rock vocal performance for the religious-oriented "Gotta Serve Somebody." "Slow Train Coming," the album on which the song appeared, was named best inspirational album at the Dove Awards, which recognize gospel recordings.
25. While attending the University of Minnesota in 1959 and '60 Zimmerman lived at the Sigma Alpha Mu fraternity house on University Av. and later above Gray's Campus Drug in Dinkytown. He performed at the Ten O'Clock Scholar coffeehouse, where the Dinkytown Burger King now stands.
26. Dylan's quasi-autobiographical 1977 movie, "Renaldo & Clara," was three hours and 57 minutes long. He portrayed Renaldo, while musician Ronnie Hawkins played a character named Bob Dylan. The film included 47 songs.
27. After taking a shellacking from critics, the movie was edited to about 90 minutes.
28. Dylan's first two movies were documentaries - "Don't Look Back," a look at his 1965 British tour, was released in '67, but did not receive widespread distribution until '75; "Eat This Document," which was shot in '66 for an ABC-TV special, was screened as a movie in '71.
29. Dylan is the author of two books. "Tarantula," which was rejected by Macmillan and Co. in 1965, was bootlegged in '70 and officially published in '71. "Writing and Drawings by Bob Dylan" was published in '73; it features 187 song lyrics, 17 drawings, 26 poems and five pages of manuscript.
30. Dylan phoned critic Robert Shelton of the New York Times to invite Shelton to review his performance Sept. 26, 1961, at Gerde's Folk City, opening for the Greenbriar Boys. It was considered audacious for an artist to ask a critic for a review - especially one from the Times. Dylan hoodwinked Shelton during an interview; among other things, Dylan said that when he was 13, he ran away and joined the circus and that he had recorded with Gene Vincent in Nashville, Tenn. Shelton's rave review launched Dylan's career.
31. In 1961, after rave reviews on the New York coffeehouse circuit, Dylan signed a three-year deal with Witmark & Sons to publish his songs. In three years Dylan wrote 237 songs for Witmark, including "Blowin' in the Wind," "A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall," "Masters of War," "With God on Our Side," "It Ain't Me Babe," "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right," "Only a Pawn in Their Game" and "Mr. Tambourine Man."
32. Dylan was a contributing editor to "Broadside," the folk-music magazine.
33. Judson Manning, the Time magazine correspondent belittled in "Ballad of a Thin Man" ("Because something is happening here/But you don't know what it is/ Do you, Mr. Jones?"), interviewed not only Dylan, but also Adolf Hitler.
34. Three Dylan songs begin with nearly the same line, "Early in the mornin'. . . ." The songs are "Obviously Five Believers," "Pledging My Time" and "Tangled Up in Blue" (which actually starts "Early one mornin' . . . ").
35. Although they never received credit on the liner notes (which had already been printed), a handful of Minnesota musicians appeared on a few tunes on "Blood on the Tracks" that were rerecorded at Sound 80 in Minneapolis in December 1974. The players included drummer Bill Berg, bassist Billy Peterson, fiddler-mandolinist Peter Ostroushko, keyboardist Gregg Inhofer and guitarists Kevin Odegard and Chris Weber.
36. Dylan introduced the Beatles to marijuana in August 1964 at the Delmonico Hotel in New York.
37. Columbia Records hired Bob Johnston to produce Dylan's "Highway 61 Revisited" sessions in Nashville as a reward for having returned Patti Page, a Columbia stalwart, to the charts with "Hush Hush, Sweet Charlotte."
38. Louis Kemp, Dylan's childhood friend, was hired as a staff member on Dylan's Rolling Thunder Revue in 1975. He now runs Louis Kemp Seafood Co.
39. In 1967, while recuperating from his motorcycle accident in Woodstock, N.Y., Dylan signed with MGM Records, home of the Righteous Brothers, the Lovin' Spoonful, Connie Francis and the late Hank Williams. MGM withdrew the contract on a technicality, and Dylan signed with Columbia.
40. When Dylan was wooed to Asylum Records in 1973, Columbia put out "Dylan " to spite him. The album of outtakes includes versions of Joni Mitchell's "Big Yellow Taxi" and Jerry Jeff Walker's "Mr. Bojangles."
41. After seeing Tiny Tim perform Dylan's "Positively Fourth Street" in California, Dylan summoned the fey singer to Woodstock in 1967. For Dylan, Tiny Tim did an impression of Rudy Vallee singing "Like a Rolling Stone" and an impression of Dylan singing Vallee's "There's No Time Like Your Time."
42. Among the duets Dylan has recorded for other artists' albums are "Buckets of Rain" with Bette Midler, "Sign Language" with Eric Clapton and "Don't Go Home with Your Hard-on" with Leonard Cohen.
43. The first time Dylan plugged in and played electric guitar at the Newport Folk Festival in 1965, he was accompanied by members of the Paul Butterfield Blues Band. Later that summer, at Forest Hills Stadium, Dylan rocked with, among others, two members of the Band, Robbie Robertson and Levon Helm.
44. The Zimmerman family home at 2524 7th Av. E. in Hibbing was sold in August 1990 for $50,000. It had been on the market for about nine months. Its previous owner, who reportedly bought it from the Zimmerman family, sold many items to a Dylan collector.
45. Imprisoned boxer Ruben (Hurricane) Carter wasn't the only prizefighter about whom Dylan sang. In 1963 Davey Moore was knocked out by Sugar Ramos and died two days later; 18 days later Dylan began singing "Who Killed Davey Moore?" The tune never appeared on record until this year's "Bootleg Series." Meanwhile, "Hurricane," about the boxer who was jailed on murder charges and later exonerated, was a modest hit in '76.
46. Hundreds of singers have recorded Dylan tunes. Otis Redding recorded "Just Like a Woman," but decided not to release his version because he couldn't get past the line, "with her fog, her amphetamine and her pearls."
47. Dylan and John Lennon once wrote and recorded a song together while Dylan was on tour in England. "I don't remember what it was, though," Dylan 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."
48. Since moving from Minneapolis to New York in 1960, Dylan has performed only five times in the Twin Cities - 1965 (at the Minneapolis Auditorium), '78 (St. Paul Civic Center), '86 (Metrodome), '89 (RiverFest at Harriet Island) and '90 (Minnesota State Fair).
49. "Bob Dylan," his first album, was recorded in a few hours at a cost of $402. Initially it sold 5,000 copies. Since then more than 35 million Dylan records have been sold.
50. Dylan is the first big-name rock figure from the '60s to turn 50.www.realty-dejavu.com
jueves, 5 de enero de 2012
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
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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- 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.
:D Hope that helps!
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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
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
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