#Bob dylan discography with pictures license#

In 'Joey' (about murderous mob boss Joe Gallo) and 'John Wesley Harding' (about famous western gunfighter John Wesley Hardin), Dylan spins the title characters into Robin Hood-like do-gooders, when in fact both men were known to be sadistic killers-Hardin once emptied his pistol through a hotel-room wall because the man on the other side was snoring and keeping Hardin awake. In 'Hurricane' (arguably his most famous 'true story' song), Dylan and Jacques Levy got several facts about the case against former boxer Rubin 'Hurricane' Carter wrong, including false accusations of police corruption in the case, claiming without evidence that the witnesses to the crime were lying and claiming that Carter was an almost saint-like figure that 'coulda been the champion of the world', when in fact Carter was long past his prime as a boxer and had been known throughout the area as a bully with a brutal, hair-trigger temper.

In 'The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll', he wrote of William Zantzinger beating Hattie Carroll to death with a cane, when in fact she died of heart failure some time after she had been verbally abused and tapped on the rear end with a toy cane by an inebriated Zantzinger.

#Bob dylan discography with pictures license#

In December he received the Kennedy Center Award for artistic excellence.ДЄccording to Dylan writer Clinton Heylin, Dylan's 'true story' songs were usually riddled with inaccuracies, with Dylan indifferently taking poetic license with the truth. Many tours and albums later, on the eve of a European tour May 1997, he was stricken with histoplasmosis (a possibly fatal infection of the heart sac) he recovered and appeared in Bologna that September at the request of the Pope. After several Rolling Thunder tours, the unsuccessful film Renaldo and Clara (1978) and a divorce, he stunned the music world again by his release of the fundamentalist Christrian album 'Slow Train Coming,' a cut from which won him his first Grammy. It was followed a year later by another first-place album, 'Blood on the Tracks'. In 1974 he and The Band went on tour, releasing his first #1 album, 'Planet Waves'. With his career wandering (and critics condemning the fact), Sam Peckinpah asked him to compose the score for, and appear in, his Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid (1973) - more memorable as a soundtrack than a film. After more hard rock performances, his next albums were mostly country. Nearly killed in a motorcycle accident 29 July 1966, he withdrew for a time of introspection. The documentary Dont Look Back (1967) was filmed at this time he broke off his relationship with Baez and by the end of the year had married Sara Dylan (born Sara Lowndes). Next year 'The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan' appeared, with all original songs including the 1960s anthem 'Blowin' in the Wind.' After several more important acoustic/folk albums, and tours with Joan Baez, he launched into a new electric/acoustic format with 1965's 'Bringing It All Back Home' which, with The Byrds' cover of his 'Mr Tambourine Man,' launched folk-rock.

Late in 1961 Columbia signed him to a contract and the following year released his first album, containing two original songs. The following year he went to New York, performed in Greenwich Village folk clubs, and spent much time in the hospital room of his hero Woody Guthrie. In 1959 he entered the University of Minnesota and began performing as Bob Dylan at clubs in Minneapolis and St. Six years later the family moved to Hibbing, often the coldest place in the US, where he taught himself piano and guitar and formed several high school rock bands. And for the rest of our three weeks in Paris, we didnвЂ™t stop playing it.Robert Allen Zimmerman was born in Duluth, Minnesota his father Abe worked for the Standard Oil Co. As John Lennon once said in discussing The FreewheelinвЂ™ Bob Dylan, whichВ reached the Beatles in their Paris hotel fully a year after its release, 'I think it was the first time I ever heard Dylan at all. By writing nearly all of his own material, and writing it from a distinctly personal point of view, Dylan created a template that would alter the course of many careers other than his. But the impact of the best-known songs on The FreewheelinвЂ™ Bob Dylan-вЂќBlowinвЂ™ In The Wind,вЂќ вЂњDonвЂ™t Think Twice, ItвЂ™s All Right,вЂќ вЂњA Hard RainвЂ™s a-Gonna FallвЂќ-was not nearly as great as the impact of DylanвЂ™s fundamental approach to music.

вЂњBlowinвЂ™ In The WindвЂќ gave most future Bob Dylan fans their first exposure to his songwriting talents, and soon his work had found its way into nearly every genre of popular music via cover versions by artists like Sam Cooke, Johnny Cash and the Byrds. In the summer of 1963, Peter, Paul and Mary turned the opening track of The FreewheelinвЂ™ Bob Dylan into an international pop hit.