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Bob Dylan
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Bob Dylan (legally Robert Dylan; born Robert Allen Zimmerman, May 24, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter. Described as one of the greatest songwriters of all time, Dylan has been a major figure in popular culture over his 69-year career. Dylan added increasingly sophisticated lyrical techniques to the folk music of the early 1960s, infusing it "with the intellectualism of classic literature and poetry". His lyrics incorporated political, social, and philosophical influences, defying pop music conventions and appealing to the burgeoning counterculture.
Dylan was born in St. Louis County, Minnesota. He moved to New York City in 1961 to pursue a music career. His 1962 debut album, Bob Dylan, containing traditional folk and blues material, was followed by his breakthrough album, The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan (1963), which included "Girl from the North Country" and "A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall", adapting older folk songs. His songs "Blowin' in the Wind" (1963) and "The Times They Are a-Changin'" (1964) became anthems for the civil rights and antiwar movements. Dylan created controversy when he used electrically amplified rock instrumentation for his albums Bringing It All Back Home, Highway 61 Revisited (both 1965), and Blonde on Blonde (1966). His six-minute single "Like a Rolling Stone" (1965) expanded commercial and creative boundaries in popular music.
After a motorcycle crash in 1966, Dylan ceased touring for seven years. During this period, he recorded a large body of songs with members of the Band, which produced the album The Basement Tapes (1975). Dylan explored country music and rural themes on the albums John Wesley Harding (1967), Nashville Skyline (1969), and New Morning (1970). He gained acclaim for Blood on the Tracks (1975) and Time Out of Mind (1997), the latter of which earned him the Grammy Award for Album of the Year. Dylan still releases music and has toured continually since the late 1980s on what has become known as the Never Ending Tour. Since 1994, Dylan has published ten books of paintings and drawings, and his work has been exhibited in major art galleries. His life has been profiled in several films, including the Oscar-nominated biopic A Complete Unknown (2024).
With an estimated 125 million records sold worldwide, Dylan is one of the best-selling musicians of all time. His accolades include an Academy Award and ten Grammy Awards. He was honored with Kennedy Center Honors in 1997 and the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2012. Dylan has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the Songwriters Hall of Fame. He was awarded a Pulitzer Prize special citation in 2008, and the 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature "for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition".
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Bob Dylan [bɑb ˈdɪlən], né Robert Zimmermann, est un auteur-compositeur-interprète, musicien, peintre, sculpteur, cinéaste et poète américain, né le 24 mai 1941 à Duluth, dans le Minnesota. Il est l'une des figures majeures de la musique populaire mondiale.
Ses œuvres les plus célèbres datent majoritairement des années 1960. Il s'inscrit d'abord dans la contre-culture de l'époque et fut le chroniqueur informel des troubles sociaux aux États-Unis. Par la suite, ses chansons deviennent de plus en plus allégoriques comme Masters of War, A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall, Gates of Eden, All Along the Watchtower, Ballad of a Thin Man, ou encore Like a Rolling Stone (élue plus grande chanson de tous les temps par le magazine Rolling Stone). Certaines de ses chansons comme Blowin' in the Wind et The Times They Are a-Changin' sont devenues des hymnes contre la guerre — en particulier contre la guerre du Vietnam — et ont été adoptés par les mouvements civiques de l'époque. L'un de ses albums studio les plus récents, Modern Times, publié en 2006, est entré directement à la première place du classement Billboard 200 et a été nommé « Album de l'année » par le magazine Rolling Stone.
Il est également reconnu pour la diversité des styles musicaux abordés dans ses chansons. Il met l'accent sur de nombreuses traditions de la musique américaine : folk, country, blues, gospel, rock 'n' roll et rockabilly, ainsi que sur les musiques folk anglaise, écossaise et irlandaise.
Depuis le début de sa carrière, Dylan a marqué la culture musicale contemporaine par ses textes et par sa recherche de voies nouvelles (allant parfois même à l’encontre des attentes de son public). En témoignent les nombreux artistes de premier plan qui revendiquent son influence (The Beatles, Neil Young, Bruce Springsteen, Paul Simon, Jeff Buckley, Tom Waits, Elvis Costello, Chrissie Hynde et bien d'autres) ou le vaste répertoire des chansons qu'il a composées, dans lequel puisent des musiciens de tous horizons et de toutes générations (Jimi Hendrix, Elvis Presley, The Beach Boys, Jerry Garcia, Mark Knopfler, U2, PJ Harvey, Syd Barrett, Guns N' Roses, Billy Strings, etc.).
Les références dont s’inspire Bob Dylan pour faire évoluer son art sont non seulement à rechercher du côté de musiciens légendaires des États-Unis d'Amérique, tels Hank Williams (country), Pete Seeger, Woody Guthrie (baladins syndicalistes) et Robert Johnson (l'un des fondateurs du blues), mais aussi chez des écrivains de la Beat Generation, comme Jack Kerouac ou Allen Ginsberg. Il a également puisé son inspiration dans l'œuvre d'Arthur Rimbaud, auquel il a été comparé, ou celle de dramaturges tel Bertolt Brecht.
Complexe, en constante évolution (sur scène il réinvente régulièrement ses standards), s'inscrivant dans différents registres, allant du rock agressif aux ballades, et proche des aspirations sociales et culturelles des époques qu’elle a traversées, l’œuvre de Bob Dylan, qui a contribué au rayonnement de la culture populaire américaine, est couronnée le 13 octobre 2016 quand il obtient le prix Nobel de littérature « pour avoir créé de nouvelles expressions poétiques dans la grande tradition de la chanson américaine ».
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Discography
Albums
- 1962 Bob Dylan
- 1963 The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan
- 1964 The Times They Are A‐Changin’
- 1964 Another Side of Bob Dylan
- 1965 Bringing It All Back Home
- 1965 Highway 61 Revisited
- 1966 Blonde on Blonde
- 1967 John Wesley Harding
- 1969 Nashville Skyline
- 1970 Self Portrait
- 1970 New Morning
- 1972 Blind Boy Grunt
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- 1972 Visions of Johanna
- 1973 Dylan
- 1974 Bett Midler Recording Session
- 1974 Now Your Mouth Cries Wolf
- 1974 Planet Waves
- 1975 Blood on the Tracks
- 1975 The Basement Tapes
- 1976 Desire
- 1978 Street‐Legal
- 1978 1978-11-10: Live at the Pitstop, Seattle, USA
- 1979 Slow Train Coming
- 1980 Saved
- 1981 Shot of Love
- 1983 Infidels
- 1985 Empire Burlesque
- 1986 Knocked Out Loaded
- 1987 Real Cuts at Last
- 1988 The Wild Cathedral Evening
- 1988 Down in the Groove
- 1989 Oh Mercy
- 1990 Get Ready! Tonight Bob's Staying Here With You
- 1990 Solid Rock
- 1990 Under the Red Sky
- 1992 Before And After The Flood
- 1992 Good as I Been to You
- 1993 (1993) Supper Club Special [Bootleg]
- 1993 World Gone Wrong
- 1994 Rise Again
- 1995 Dignity
- 1995 Guitars Kissing & The Contemporary Fix
- 1995 Highway 61 Revisited
- 1995 Laguna Seca Raceway [Bootleg]
- 1996 Hard to Find, Volume 4: Hardest to Find (Lost Diamonds 1986-96)
- 1996 Paradise, Hawaiian Style
- 1996 The Christiania Greatest
- 1997 Eyes of the Idol
- 1997 Time Out of Mind
- 2000 Hard to Find, Volume 7: Music From the Outlaw Hideout
- 2000 Stealin
- 2001 Juiced in Japan
- 2001 “Love and Theft”
- 2002 Sharp Eyed Señor of the Lowlands
- 2003 In The Club - Hamburg Docks 17-10-2003
- 2004 Chronicles, Volume One: Limited Edition 6 Song Sampler
- 2006 Modern Times
- 2007 One More Layer Of Skin
- 2008 Complete Infidels Sessions
- 2008 Some Big TV Network: TV Shows (Part 2)
- 2009 Friends Will Arrive: Studio Sessions (Take 1)
- 2009 Songs From The Real America
- 2009 The Basement Safety Tape
- 2009 Together Through Life
- 2009 Christmas in the Heart
- 2010 The Bob Dylan Sampler
- 2011 The Minneapolis Party Tape
- 2012 Nashville Sessions 1969 and More
- 2012 Tempest
- 2013 The McKenzie Tapes: Home Recordings 1961–62
- 2014 Shelter From A Hard Rain The Classic 1976 Broadcast
- 2014 The Bootleg Series, Vol. 11: The Basement Tapes Complete
- 2015 Freewheelin' Outtakes
- 2015 Shadows in the Night
- 2016 The 1985 Rehearsal Tape
- 2016 Fallen Angels
- 2017 Deep Dylan
- 2017 Triplicate
- 2020 Rough and Rowdy Ways
- 2021 Complete Nashville Sessions 1969