As the author of some fifty absolute classics of 20th-century songwriting, Bob
Dylan is the most covered singer in the world. Since his debut in 1961, Robert
Allen Zimmerman—better known as Bob Dylan—born in Duluth, Minnesota, on May 24,
1941, has become one of the most influential figures in contemporary music. This
is due as much to his poetic and symbolic lyrics—and his music, which blends
blues, folk, country, and early rock ’n’ roll—as to his complex and enigmatic
personality. Having emerged with the burgeoning folk revival movement of the
early 1960s, Bob Dylan rejected the...