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On October 29th, 1961, then 20-year-old Dylan claimed he traveled the country with the circus while being interviewed on the radio for the first time by Oscar Brand for WNYC's Folksong Festival.
Evening Standard/Getty Images Facts and Bob Dylan have always made for strange companions. Though he achieved worldwide fame as “The Voice of a Generation”—a young man celebrated for his honesty as he sang of both the hard truths of social injustices as well as his own personal romantic anguish—he did so as Bob Dylan, not as Robert Zimmerman, the name he was born with and went by growing up in Minnesota. Even today, more than 50 years after he first began kicking around the Greenwich Village club scene, Dylan remains an elusive figure who has at times been accused of making career cho...