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Rolling Stone Patrick Sky, Folk Singer and Bob Dylan Contemporary, Dead at 80
Member of the Sixties Greenwich Village folk scene, Sky released acclaimed satirical LP
Songs That Made America Famous in 1973
By Timothy Duffy
Patrick Sky, a member of the Sixties Greenwich Village folk scene that launched Bob Dylan, Dave Van Ronk, and many others, died on May 27th in Asheville, North Carolina. Sky had been diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease in 2017, but according to his wife, folklorist and musician Cathy Larson Sky, Sky succumbed to prostate cancer and bone cancer. He was 80.
“Pat is one of the best story-tellers I know,” his friend and neighbor Van Ronk wrote in the liner notes to Sky’s 1965 self-titled debut album. “This is probably why he’s such a great singer. His songs are like he is honest and sentimental, absurd and bawdy, indignant and simple to the point of complexity.” In the liner notes of his 1985 box set
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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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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 choices specifically to obfuscate and muddle his identity. But there’s plenty we do know about the Nobel Prize winner who wrote some of the most important songs in music history.
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