Bob Dylan…The Man… The Myth…The Legend By Nick DeSantis Few Musicians in the History of Rock and Roll have influenced popular Music as much as Bob Dylan. However too fully understand Bob Dylan’s music you must first understand his life story. Bob Dylan’s real name is Robert Allen Zimmerman and he was born on May 24, 1941 in Duluth Minnesota. His father, a man by the name of Abe worked at Standard Oil …showed first 75 words of 1545 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1545 total…inspire with his words. In an interview in 1994 I believe he summed up motivation in one statement. Dylan Said, “ Yeah, (it’s easy to say) it’s all behind me, that there’s no more. But you want to say there might be a small chance that something up there will surpass whatever you did. Everybody works in the shadow of what they’ve previously done. But you have to over come that” (Heylin p.440).