Bob Dylan turns 71
As rock legend Bob Dylan turns 71, we look at some iconic moments in his life.
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Dylan, whose real name is Robert Zimmerman, started his singing career in the early 1960s when he moved to New York to meet his hero, folk musician Woody Guthrie who was hospitalized. Dylan hoped to be Guthrie's greatest disciple.
Dylan started singing in clubs around Greenwich Village from 1961. -
In the 1960s, Dylan became a youth icon. He conceived and wrote The Times They Are A Changin as an anthem for the era of change he saw occurring. The early 60s had already seen the Cuban missile crisis, and almost a decade of the civil rights movement. The recording of the album was completed only days before the assassination of President John F Kennedy. The Vietnam War was soon to follow.
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Dylan had a number of influences in his career. Apart from mentors like Woody Guthrie and Jack Elliott, Dylan was pushed to success by fellow singer Joan Baez, who invited him to sing on her shows. The two were romantically involved and did many protest songs together. Baez, who is more of an interpretative singer, has done extremely popular versions of Dylan's songs like Farewell, Angelina and It Ain't Me Babe.
