Inside Bob Dylan s tangled personal life from teenage sweetheart to secret children
Bob Dylan has had a very complicated love life that he has kept tight-lipped on over the years, so for his 80th birthday, we looked back over his most significant relationships
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Bob Dylan’s love life is almost as complex as his music, with many believing in was his relationship ups and downs that inspired some of his greatest works.
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Alternative Title: Robert Allen Zimmerman
Bob Dylan, original name
Robert Allen Zimmerman, (born May 24, 1941, Duluth, Minnesota, U.S.), American folksinger who moved from folk to rockmusic in the 1960s, infusing the lyrics of rock and roll, theretofore concerned mostly with boy-girl romanticinnuendo, with the intellectualism of classic literature and poetry. Hailed as the Shakespeare of his generation, Dylan sold tens of millions of albums, wrote more than 500 songs recorded by more than 2,000 artists, performed all over the world, and set the standard for lyric writing. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2016. (
He grew up in the northeastern Minnesota mining town of Hibbing, where his father co-owned Zimmerman Furniture and Appliance Co. Taken with the music of Hank Williams, Little Richard, Elvis Presley, and Johnny Ray, he acquired his first guitar in 1955 at age 14 and later, as a high school student, played in a series of rock and ro
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Bob Dylan Fast Facts
Personal
Birth place: Duluth, Minnesota
Father: Abraham Zimmerman, a furniture and appliance salesman
Mother: Beatty (Stone) Zimmerman, a former model and housewife
Marriages: Carol Dennis (1986-1992, divorced); Sara Lowndes (1965-1977, divorced)
Children: with Carol Dennis: Desiree; with Sara Lowndes: Jesse, Jakob, Samuel, and Anna
Education: Attended
Has won an Academy Award out of one nomination.
Early musical influences include Hank Williams, Muddy Waters and Howlin’ Wolf.
Known in his early career for playing the guitar and the harmonica, and for his distinctive vocal phrasing.
Many cities worldwide celebrate Dylan’s birthday with Dylanfest or the Bob Dylan Birthday Bash.
Bob Dylan Fast Facts
Personal
Birth place: Duluth, Minnesota
Father: Abraham Zimmerman, a furniture and appliance salesman
Mother: Beatty (Stone) Zimmerman, a former model and housewife
Marriages: Carol Dennis (1986-1992, divorced); Sara Lowndes (1965-1977, divorced)
Children: with Carol Dennis: Desiree; with Sara Lowndes: Jesse, Jakob, Samuel, and Anna
Education: Attended
Has won an Academy Award out of one nomination.
Early musical influences include Hank Williams, Muddy Waters and Howlin’ Wolf.
Known in his early career for playing the guitar and the harmonica, and for his distinctive vocal phrasing.
Many cities worldwide celebrate Dylan’s birthday with Dylanfest or the Bob Dylan Birthday Bash.