That is likely all about to change later this month whenA Complete Unknownhits theaters.
Before they go into the theater, we wanted to provide them with some context about Dylans life.
If youre familiar with the basic beats of his story, this probably isnt an article for you.
Bob Dylan is likely to gain a whole new audience of curious fans when ‘A Complete Unknown’ opens in theaters.Bettmann Archive/Getty Images
(We haveabout 900 other Bob Dylan articles in our archivethatll interest you far more.)
Bob Dylan was born Robert Allen Zimmerman.
Until late in his teenage years, he was known as Bobby Zimmerman.
The Zimmerman family moved from Duluth, Minnesota, to the small Minnesota town of Hibbing in 1948.
His high-school yearbook stated his desire to join Little Richard.
His early shows largely featured cover songs by folk icons like Woody Guthrie.
Very slowly, he started writing his own songs and drawing larger crowds.
He signed to Columbia Records in October 1961.
Dylans songs like Blowin in the Wind were famous before he was.
Sam Cooke cut his own version the following year.
In 1965, the Byrds scored a smash with their take on Mr. Tambourine Man.
Dylan performed at the 1963 March on Washington.
Folk purists were enraged when Dylan began playing electric music, even labeling him Judas.
He followed it with an electric tour across America, Australia, and Europe where he was routinely heckled.
Dylan went through a heavy Jesus period in the late Seventies.
He also preached to the audience.
I told you The Times They Are A-Changing and they did!
He told a New Mexico crowd in 1979.
I said the answer was Blowin in the Wind and it was!
And Im saying to you now, Jesus is coming back, and he is!
There is no other way to salvation.
(He returned to secular music in the early Eighties.)
On June 7, 1988, Bob Dylan kicked off a tour at Concord Pavilion in Concord, California.
Its now 36 years later, and that tour is still going.
At the peak, he was playing about 120 shows a year.
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