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...