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Bob Dylan

Dropping out of college in Minneapolis in 1960, Robert Zimmerman (born May 24th, 1941 in Duluth, Minnesota) reinvented himself as Bob Dylan and travelled to New York seeking out folk legend Woody Guthrie. He found Guthrie ill in hospital with Huntington's Disease and wrote his first song in honour of his hero, throwing himself into the emerging Greenwich Village folk movement. Famous producer John Hammond signed him to Columbia and Dylan's cryptic songs full of biting social commentary delivered in a strange, strangulated voice made him the hero of the protest song movement as yo...