Biography
Bob Dylan, perhaps, one of the brightest figures in world music. This is a man who asked and still sets the mood of folk and rock movements around the world. Knockin on Heavens Door and All Along The Watchtower Hits are unlikely to ever lose relevance. In addition to music, the creative biography of Bob Dylan is connected with acting and directorial art, as well as writing books.Childhood and youth
The real name of Dylan - Robert Allen Zimmerman. A future musician was born on May 24, 1941 in the city of Duluth, which is in Minnesota. Bob's ancestors along the Father line in 1905 were immigrated to the United States from Odessa, fleeing from persecution of Jews. Grandmother and grandfather from the mother's side were also immigrants who were moving to America from Lithuania. Boy's parents, Abraham Zimmerman and Beatris Stone, also consisted in the Jewish community.
When Dilan was barely 6 years old, the boy's family shocked a terrible news: Bob was diagnosed with poliomyelitis. The family had to look for competent physicians who could help cope with the ailment. So, Zimmermans move to the town called Hibbing.
From the early years, Bob Dilan has dragged to music: the boy did not move away from the radio. Most of all young dilan attracted blues and folk, especially in the performance of musicians like Hank Williams and Woody Guthri. Dilan was so impressed by the work of these artists, which in its own early compositions Bob will clearly be traced to the manner of the game and the execution of Williams and Gatri.
Already when the family moved to Hibbing, the little Robert began to master the first musical instruments. It was a guitar and a lip-harmonica. Then the boy begins to try his strength and in writing poems. Does not ignore the future star and school concerts: a rare event did without a speech of Dylan. Later, in the ensemble, the musician went to the scene of clubs and bars, no one embarrassing the small number of public.
In 1959, Robert entered the university, but always found time and musical classes. At about the same time, the artist began to actively give concerts in the clubs of Minneapolis. Something was born the first alias of Robert Tsimmerman - Bob Dylan. Despite the fact that pseudonyms in the life of Dilan will still have a lot, the very first will remain for him and the most important thing. Bob is a cut on behalf of Robert. The surname of the musician, according to one of the versions, borrowed from the Welsh verse of Dylan Thomas.
Carier start
As it often happens, the work is so fascinated by the young dilan that he decided to throw the university and engaged only by his loved business. In 1961, Bob moves to New York. There the musician begins to communicate with colleagues in the stage workshop, meets the famous performers of that time and gradually begins to draw into the so-called party. Dilan even was lucky enough to chat with Woody Guthrie, a kumir of orphanage.The songs of Bob Dilan gradually become famous not only lovers of music in the style of Folk. Once at the concert, Bob turned out to be a musical critic Robert Shelton, who was impressed by Dylan's performance, and already after some time with his promotion the musician signed an agreement with Columbia Records. This made it possible to start working on the long-awaited album. The first plate of Bob Dilan appeared in 1962. It was called Bob Dylan. This album consisted of remakes of famous compositions in the style of blues and folk, as well as from a pair of author's songs Bob. Immediately after the release of the debut album, the musician officially took the name Bob Dylan.
After a year later, Bob pleased the fans the second album The Freewheelin 'Bob Dylan, the compositions of which are filled with a political protest. Dilan's director insisted that songs from this plate were performed in acoustic arrangement with the participation of exclusively lifting harmonica and guitars, although the musician himself was already interested in rock and roll receptions. The compositions fell by the public, and the Blowin 'in the Wind song had to be in the way in the fight for the rights of blacks.
In 1964, Dilan released two albums in a row. The composition of the first plates The Times The Are A-Changin 'are still filled with protest moods. In the second album, the author's songs were entered, filled this time in the style of rhythm and blues. Critics separately emphasized the complex poetic texts - the many years of passion for the musician of the world poetry affected. At this time, the singer is becoming increasingly popular, the photos of Bob appear, perhaps, in the collection of every Melomanana, and any speech Bob becomes a real event in the world of music.
Next year passed for dilan under the sign of Folk Rock. The musician produces already famous songs with a new arrangement. Then Bob gathered a rock band and recorded the Bringing IT All Back Home record. However, the new beginnings in the works of Bob at first did not meet an understanding of the fans: there were new songs from the idol, expressing a social protest. On the folk concert in Newport performers even sewn. In the same year, the artist recorded a rock album called Highway 61 Revisited. Bob's song of Dilan Like a Rolling Stone, preceded by the outlet of the plate, remains relevant and at this time.
Country Rock
In 1966, Bob fell into a serious motorcycle accident. Mimicing after injury and shocks, the musician lived some time, collecting material for the next plate and experimented with execution styles and musical genres.
The result of this kind of creative vacation was the album John Wesley Harding, which saw the light in 1967. Compositions from this plate were presented with an incredible mixture of rock music and country. This was born a new course in world music - Country Rock. Oddly enough, the new passion of Bob Dianana again did not like the already existing fans, but he gave the musician to the musician from among Country lovers.
After some time, Dylan moved to Nashville, who was then considered the capital of country music. The artist continued to experiment with the style of execution and even the voice of the voice. The result of creative quest was the Nashville Skyline disc, recorded together with Johnny Cache. In the early 1970s, rumors spread that Dylan was "born" and experiences a creative crisis. The musician really accounted for it was not easy: a rabid pace of work and tour was affected, but Bob continued to record new songs. So, in the discography of the artist, the New Morning plate appeared, which became a hit for many years.
A year later, Bob recorded the next album Planet Waves and immediately went to a large tour of America's cities. These tour will be called the most profitable in the history of rock music. Soon introduced the Album Blood on The Tracks, the songs from which were very personal: the musician shared with fans with his own experiences. The success of this disk was colossal.
Christian music
Album Slow Train coming, released in 1979, marked a new milestone in the works of Dylan: the musician was seriously carried away by the theme of Christianity. Bob performed as a fierce opponent pornography and prostitution. And one of his thematic songs Gotta Serve Somebody was marked by the Grammy Award in the category "Best Male Vocal Rock Execution".Nevertheless, this disc, like some albums that followed him, turned out to be failed: fans refused to perceive the "new" dilan. Trying to convey fresh ideas for the listener, the singer did not use the already famous repertoire at the concerts, but simply reflected on faith. Support from fans new style speeches did not receive.
Commercial decline
Despite the decline of interest from the public to the work of the musician, he continued to give concerts. In 1985, Bob spoke in Moscow, which had an impact on the development of the Soviet rock movement: Maneru of the execution of Bob Dilan was trying to adopt Boris Grebenchikov, Mike Naumenko and other musicians, just beginning their scenic path.
In 1988, Bob announced the start of the endless tour of the tour, which was given by Never Ending Tour. This tour is really not over and to this day. A two-year-old speech in the tour took place in 2007 in the city of Diton, which is in Ohio.
At the same time, together with her friends and colleagues, George Harrison, Tom Petty, Roy Orbison and Jeff Lynn Dylan created the following the Traveling Wilburys supergroup, which for 2 years of its existence released two albums.
To the sources in their style Bob returned when creating the Album WORLD GONE WRONG. Some famous national hits have undergone author's interpretation, and Lone Pilgrim's ballad was favorably met with critics and music lovers.
In 1997, Dylan survived serious heart problems. The musician was even hospitalized, but everything ended well. In the same year, Dylan visited the sermon Pope of Roman in Bologna, based on the words of the Bloodin 'in the Wind.
New era
At the same time, in 1997, the musician was invited to meet with Bill Clinton, who was at that time president of the United States. In the solemn atmosphere, Dilan presented to the center of Kennedy.So significant recognition inspired Bob: After some time, Dylan released a Time Out of Mind plate, which again surprised fans. This album critics and listeners met positively. In 1999, Bob received Oscar awards and Golden Globe for the composition of Things Have Changed, which was used as a soundtrack to the movie "Wunderkinds".
The next disc did not make himself wait: In 2001, the Love and theft plate came out. This album again showed the multifaceted dilan talent, this time I tried like jazzman. The MODERN TIMES record, released in 2006, also turned out to be popular. Critics noted that the voice of the musician became gross because of the age, but the album met favorably. The disc brought the musician to the Grammy Prize as the creator of the best solo rock project.
The poetry of the texts, which critics constantly noted, gave Bob Dilan a Pulitzer Prize. This award, presented in 2008, noted the influence that the artist had a global musical culture. A year later, the artist received another award: Barack Obama, then President of the United States, handed the music medal of freedom - one of the honorary US state awards.
In 2016, a curious situation took place: Bob Dilan was awarded the Nobel Prize in the field of literature, noting the contribution of the musician to the development of the US Song Creativity. Humor was the fact that the news of the award performer simply recovered, because in the evening of this day he was planned to perform a performance in Las Vegas.
Books
At the dawn of creative activities, Dylan paid attention to literature. His experimental novel appeared in 1966. When writing Tarantula, the author used the flow of consciousness flow. Despite the fact that the singer himself compared the book with "I write, as written by John Lennon, she received negative critics reviews. And in 2003, and at all entered the rating of "5 most incomprehensible proposals from books written by the musicians."
The musician returned to the epistolar genre in 2004, releaseing the autobiography of the "Chronicles", which he dedicated to the first year of life in New York. This experience turned out to be more successful: the novel reached the 2nd line in the list of bestsellers The New York Times and was nominated for the US National Book Prize.
Films
In addition to music, Dylan was also interested in cinema. In his youth, the musician made a composer for several films, and also tried himself as an actor in the paintings "Renaldo and Clara" and "Pat Garrett and Billy Kid".Star songs have become soundtracks more than six hundred paintings. Among them, you can mark the "careless rider" Peter Funds (IT's Alright, Ma song (I'm Only Bleeding)), "Keepers" Zack Snidder (composition The Times They Are A-Changin '), "Big Lebovski" Brothers Cohen (Track The MAN in Me).
In 2003, Bob even wrote a script for the film "Show Century", scrubbed a loud name under the pseudonym Sergey Petrov. In 2005, a picture appeared "There is no way back: Bob Dylan". This film is talking about five years from the life of the musician: from 1961 to 1966. The film event covers the period that began moving the musician to New York and ended with that motorcycle accident.
The director of the painting was the great Martin Scorsese, who was able to convey the nature of Dylan, his experiences and the inner world on the screen. Moreover, this film exceeded the story of one artist: Bob and other performers talk about a long era in the world of music.
Another biographical tape - "There is no me," - dedicated to the life and creative path of the musician, was created by director Todd Haynes. Kate Blanchett, reincarnated in the main character, was awarded Oscar.
Dylan was attracted to cooperation and when creating a film "Mauritan". The picture in which the Musician song The Man in Me was included in the soundtrack, went to the screens in 2021.
Personal life
The personal life of Bob Dilan was no less saturated than musical career. The first adult love of the musician became a talented artist named Sius Rotolo. Young people met in 1961. Photo Beauty Sew was placed on the cover of The Freewheelin 'disc. Unfortunately, these relationships broke up: the girl was not enough attention of one beloved. After parting, the survey moved to Italy.
Dylan seriously experienced the loss of beloved. The feelings of the musician were embodied in the song Boots of Spanish Leather. A year later, Sugu Rotolo returned to America, the relationship with Dylan lasted some more time, but in the end the girl finally broke the heart of the musician. Dylan expressed pain in the next song Ballad in Plain D.
Soon, Dilan's heart pushed with love again. This time, Joan Baez became the elected musician. The girl also performed songs in Folk style. The love degree of two musicians became the union creative: Joan sang many compositions written by Bob, for example, Blowin 'in the wind. However, these relationships ended: in the 1965th, the pair broke up.
Then beloved the musician became Actress Edid Sedgevik, the young singer was given Gillespi and the charming model of Playboy magazine Sarah Lownes. It was Sara who managed to take possession of the heart of Bob Dilan for a long time. Lovers got married. The first official spouse the musician dedicated the song Sad-eyed Lady of the Lowlands. This marriage gave Bob to Dilan four children. However, even this fact did not save a relationship from the gap: in the 1970s, Dilan realized that a woman who was next to him would absolutely not understand him. Musician grown marriage and, what is called, set into all the grave.
Bob Dylan changed his mistresses, trying to find that very, the only relationship with which the long-awaited mutual understanding would bring. Searches were crowned with success: Caroline Dannis became the second wife of Dylan, the back-vocalist of the Bob's musical team. The second marriage gave the musician daughter Dezir Gabriel Dannis Dylan, who was born in 1986. Unfortunately, in 1992, a couple broke up, and from that time Bob Dylan is considered an enviable bachelor.
Bob Dylan now
Now Bob Dylan, despite the old age, still tours and composes new hits. In 2020, the singer released a clip to the song False Prophet. To create a video, the style of Noir was chosen. This is the third track preceding his Disk Rough and Rowdy Ways.Summing up the 60-year-old creative career, on the eve of 2021 Dylan decided to sell the right to all his Songs of Universal. The amount of the transaction, on the assumption of NYT, was $ 300 million.
Discography
- 1962 - Bob Dylan
- 1964 - The Times The Are A-Changin '
- 1970 - Self Portrait
- 1980 - Saved.
- 1981 - Shot Of Love
- 1986 - Knocked Out Loaded
- 1988 - Down in the Groove
- 1990 - UNDER THE RED SKY
- 1992 - Good As I Been To You
- 1993 - WORLD GONE WRONG
- 1997 - Time Out of Mind
- 2006 - Modern Times
- 2009 - TOGETHER THROUGH LIFE
- 2012 - Tempest.
- 2015 - Shadows in the Night
- 2016 - Fallen Angels
- 2017 - Triplicate.
- 2020 - Rough and Rowdy Ways
Filmography
- 1960 - "BBC: Sunday Evening Piez"
- 1973 - "Pat Garrett and Billy Kid"
- 1978 - Renaldo and Clara
- 1987 - "Fiery Hearts"
- 2003 - "Show Century"
Bibliography
- 1966 - Tarantul
- 2004 - "Chronicles"