Robert Allen Zimmerman Biography

Birth of Bob Dylan at Duluth, Minnesota

Birth of Bob Dylan, born Robert Allen Zimmerman.

Moves with his family to Hibbing, Minnesota.

Forms teenage rock and roll bands while at Hibbing High School.

Studies briefly at the University of Minnesota.

Bob Dylan graduates Hibbing HS in Minnesota

Plays at Gerdes Folk City

Releases, "Bob Dylan", consists of familiar folk, blues and gospel material combined with two of his own songs

Dylan and Baez are both prominent in the civil rights movement, singing together at rallies including the March on Washington where Martin Luther King, Jr. gave his "I have a dream" speech

Releases, "The Times They Are a-Changin", reflects a more sophisticated, politicized and cynical Dylan. Dylans second album is released, "The Freewheelin Bob Dylan"

Releases, "The Times They Are a-Changin", reflects a more sophisticated, politicized and cynical Dylan. Dylans second album is released, "The Freewheelin Bob Dylan"

Releases the album, "Another Side of Bob Dylan". Releases Album, "Times They Are A-Changin"

Releases the album, "Another Side of Bob Dylan". Releases Album, "Times They Are A-Changin"

Releases the album "Bringing It All Back Home", features his first recordings made with electric instruments.

Releases the single "Like a Rolling Stone", which peaks at #2 in the U.S. and at #4 in the UK charts.

The single, "Subterranean Homesick Blues", owes much to Chuck Berrys "Too Much Monkey Business" and is provided with an early music video courtesy of Pennebakers cinema verite presentation of Dylans 1965 tour of England, Dont Look Back.

Releases the album "Bringing It All Back Home", features his first recordings made with electric instruments.

Releases the single "Like a Rolling Stone", which peaks at #2 in the U.S. and at #4 in the UK charts.

The single, "Subterranean Homesick Blues", owes much to Chuck Berrys "Too Much Monkey Business" and is provided with an early music video courtesy of Pennebakers cinema verite presentation of Dylans 1965 tour of England, Dont Look Back.

Releases the album "Bringing It All Back Home", features his first recordings made with electric instruments.

Releases the single "Like a Rolling Stone", which peaks at #2 in the U.S. and at #4 in the UK charts.

The single, "Subterranean Homesick Blues", owes much to Chuck Berrys "Too Much Monkey Business" and is provided with an early music video courtesy of Pennebakers cinema verite presentation of Dylans 1965 tour of England, Dont Look Back.

Releases the album "Bringing It All Back Home", features his first recordings made with electric instruments.

Releases the single "Like a Rolling Stone", which peaks at #2 in the U.S. and at #4 in the UK charts.

The single, "Subterranean Homesick Blues", owes much to Chuck Berrys "Too Much Monkey Business" and is provided with an early music video courtesy of Pennebakers cinema verite presentation of Dylans 1965 tour of England, Dont Look Back.

The Nashville sessions produce the album "Blonde on Blonde", featuring what Dylan later calls "that thin wild mercury sound". Releases Album, "Blonde on Blonde"

Releases the album, "John Wesley Harding"

Woody Guthrie died on October 3, 1967, and Dylan makes his first live appearance in twenty months at a Guthrie memorial concert held at Carnegie Hall on January 20, 1968

Woody Guthrie died on October 3, 1967, and Dylan makes his first live appearance in twenty months at a Guthrie memorial concert held at Carnegie Hall on January 20, 1968

Releases, "Nashville Skyline", a mainstream country record featuring instrumental backing by Nashville musicians

Bob Dylan and Johnny Cash combine on a Grand Ole Opry TV special

Releases Album, "Blood on the Tracks"

Included in TIME Magazines 100 most influential people of the Twentieth century

Rolling Stone magazine lists the single "Like a Rolling Stone" at number one on its list of the 500 greatest songs of all time

Ranked #2 in Rolling Stone magazines list of "Greatest Artists of All Time", second only to The Beatles