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Bob Dylan
Duluth, Minnesota, USA
Bob Dylan (born Robert Allen Zimmerman; May 24, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter, poet, and painter. He has been a major figure in music for five decades. Much of his most c…
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Bob Dylan (born Robert Allen Zimmerman; May 24, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter, poet, and painter. He has been a major figure in music for five decades. Much of his most celebrated work dates from the 1960s when he was an informal chronicler, and an apparently reluctant figurehead, of social unrest. Though he is well-known for revolutionizing perceptions of the limits of popular music in 1965 with the six-minute single "Like a Rolling Stone," a number of his earlier songs such as "Blowin' in the Wind" and "The Times They Are a-Changin'" became anthems for the US civil rights and anti-war movements. His early lyrics incorporated a variety of political, social and philosophical, as well as literary influences. They defied existing pop music conventions and appealed hugely to the then burgeoning counterculture. Initially inspired by the songs of Woody Guthrie, Robert Johnson, Hank Williams, and the performance styles of Buddy Holly and Little Richard, Dylan has both amplified and personalized musical genres, exploring numerous distinct traditions in American song—from folk, blues and country to gospel, rock and roll, and rockabilly, to English, Scottish, and Irish folk music, embracing even jazz and swing. Dylan performs with guitar, keyboards, and harmonica. Backed by a changing line-up of musicians, he has toured steadily since the late 1980s on what has been dubbed the Never Ending Tour. His accomplishments as a recording artist and performer have been central to his career, but his greatest contribution is generally considered to be his songwriting. Since 1994, Dylan has published three books of drawings and paintings, and his work has been exhibited in major art galleries. As a songwriter and musician, Dylan has received numerous awards over the years including Grammy, Golden Globe, and Academy Awards; he has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame, and Songwriters Hall of Fame. In 2008, a road called the Bob Dylan Pathway was opened in the singer's honor in his birthplace of Duluth, Minnesota. The Pulitzer Prize jury in 2008 awarded him a special citation for "his profound impact on popular music and American culture, marked by lyrical compositions of extraordinary poetic power."
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2026
No Time to Think: Bob Dylan as Filmmaker
Movie Himself (archival footage)
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2025
I understand
Movie Music
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2025
Newport and the Great Folk Dream
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2025
John Candy: I Like Me
Movie Self - Singer (archive footage)
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2025
Highway 99: A Double Album
Movie Self [Archival]
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2025
One to One: John & Yoko
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2024
A Complete Unknown
Movie Songs
- 2024
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2024
Girl From the North Country
Movie Songs
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2024
Return of the King: The Fall and Rise of Elvis Presley
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2024
Passion & Poetry: Peckinpah's Last Western
Movie Music
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2024
The Beach Boys
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2024
Song to Woody: Greenwich Village, the Folk Revival, and Bob Dylan
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2024
The Partners
Movie Music
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2024
The Greatest Night in Pop
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2023
Joan Baez: I Am a Noise
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2022
2022 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2022
Joni Mitchell, Lady Blue
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2022
Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, a Journey, a Song
Movie Self
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2022
Andy Warhol's America
TV show
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2022
Andy Warhol's America
Movie
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2021
Kalvøyafestivalen - 50 år siden første riff
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2021
Karen Dalton: In My Own Time
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2021
Bob Dylan: Shadow Kingdom
Movie Self
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2021
Bob Dylan: Odds and Ends
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2021
Like a Rolling Stone: The Life & Times of Ben Fong-Torres
Movie Self (archival footage)
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2021
The Dancing Man of L.A.
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2021
1971: The Year That Music Changed Everything
TV show Self (archive footage)
- 2020
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2020
Jimmy Carter: Rock & Roll President
Movie Self
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2020
My Darling Vivian
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2020
Bob Dylan: Busy Being Born
Movie Self
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2020
Nana Mouskouri, Momente ihres Lebens
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2020
Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and the Band
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2019
Big Family: The Story of Bluegrass Music
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2019
Manson: Music from an Unsound Mind
Movie Self (archive footage)
- 2019
- 2019
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2019
The Gift: The Journey of Johnny Cash
Movie Self (archive footage)
- 2018
