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In four pages this paper offers a brief biography of Bob Dylan and considers the lyrics of his 1965 song, Highway 61 Revisited in terms of meaning and context. Five sources are cited in the bibliography.
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also runs south from Duluth, Minnesota, the birthplace of Robert Allen Zimmerman, better known to the world as Bob Dylan (Ruhlmann). Born on May 24, 1941 in a mining
town located approximately seventy miles from the Canadian border, the Zimmermans were hard working and intelligent people with a passion for the arts they shared with their sons Bob and
David (Siegel 33). Abraham Zimmerman once recalled buying an inexpensive piano was Bob was about 10, but the child quit playing after one lesson "because he couldnt play anything
right away" (Siegel 33). He did eventually give the instrument another try and succeeded in mastering the piano, harmonica, autoharp, and guitar (Siegel 33). When he wasnt playing
music and writing songs, he was composing poetry, amazing several hundred by the age of 12 (Siegel 33). After high school, Zimmerman received a scholarship to the University of
Minnesota, but within no time had exchanged his frat house for an apartment and was performing at the Ten oclock Scholar in Minneapolis (Siegel 33). When he was denied
a raise from $2 to $5 a night, he promptly quit and headed to New York City (Siegel 33). By the time he arrived, he had legally changed his
name to Bob Dylan, and while always insisting this was not an homage to poet Dylan Thomas, he remained characteristically vague about the origin of the surname (Siegel 33).
Dylan settled in Greenwich Village and quickly established a comfort zone in folk music circles. Amazingly, despite the fact that the legal adult age at the time was 21,
a 20-year-old Bob Dylan signed a two-year contract with Columbia in 1961 (Siegel 33). His self-titled album was produced for about $400 and sold a little more than 4,000
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