The Life and Career of Bob Dylan

The a&e biography gets pulled off this website all the time. But it's the only one spanning his entire career right up until it came out in October of 2000. Everyone can fill in the gaps of the 23 years that followed.

Brilliant and accurate up to 1966 then bob dylans vanishing happened after blonde on blonde. Check it out. Thanks for posting and interesting

In the "No Direction Home" Documentary, Joan Baez talks about just one time, maybe a day or two, when Dylan just sat at his typewriter and typed page after page of his thoughts or what came to him and this just shows his brilliance, he took all of this and wrote some of the greatest songs in history. Now, I say this because I have my own opinion, but Allen Ginsberg had said something along the lines of Dylan being this Prophet or like a Lightning Rod and it just flowed through him and nobody else. I can agree with some of that, but to me he was writing songs and singing about what was happening at the time and during a time that nobody would dare question the government. Sam Cooke, before he was killed tragically, heard Blowing in the Wind and not in a angry and spiteful way, but in a way of admiration. "This white boy is out there singing songs about the Civil Rights movement, why aren't we?" He hated being called a protest singer because it wasnt about that, it as about just listening and helping to change the wrongs that were happening. I did not have the chance to live in those early days of the 1960's and only found Dylan as a 14 year old pot smoking High School kid while my friends were listening to the DOors and Floyd, etc. But Dylan, to this day i can listen to any one of his songs and it always makes me feel different or as though I hadnt heard a part before. "Only a Pawn in Their Game" was GENIUS...The Beatles would never have wrote and played that. And then in 65 released Highway 61 Revisited and it blew the world away. Gotta love Bob Dylan, he wrote and sang and did what he wnated to, not what he was told to

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This is and has been my favorite Musician, Songwriter, person, since I was in High School. You could take only the Music he made in the 1960's and that alone would be enough to be considered one of the most influential Artists of all-time. I mean, I watched the Sam Cooke Documentary on Netflix and there is a part where I am not sure if it was Cooke, but the line was something like "This white boy from Minnesota is doing more for the Civil Rights movement than we are" and taken as just the one sentence most would just say, "um, ok," but it just showed that a white boy, man, etc, was just as determined to get the word out that things had to change and were not going to if you just sat on your ass and did nothing! When I first listened to "The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan" I really had no words to describe how powerful and how much emotion came out of every song. When you get into that topic of the greatest songwriters of all time (and I am not going into some of the very Early Bluesmen because they could have their own list and without them, music would not evolve and exist as it does today) you always get the Lennon was, McCartney was, this that. But Dylan...Dylan didnt just sing about love and holding hands, etc. He didnt talk about gettin no satisfaction or paint it black...he wrote and sang about how this was a new generation and that they had the power to affect change, that there were battles right here in the South, the North, the East and West for equality...I am not a Political Theorist and probably already tried to hard. But those of you that are fans of Dylan know what I am saying.

A confused & unsatisfactory "summary" of the man's career.

I wonder how this would have gone over if he was black.

A Jewish Christian, it doesn’t get any better than that! Rock on Robert Zimmerman!

phil ochs would be disappointed with the state of our country may he rest in peace, and death to all fascists

It is sad
to see

I see republican propaganda on here(YOU TUBE ADS).. I thought this was supposed to be about art.

Brought folk(people) to the masses(people)

Overall a truly nice video and summary of the Master, Bob Dylan. But one thing annoyed me. The man has light-years of musical compilations, including releases, tours and broadcasts. But for some reason, the video shows the song title "Thunder On The Mountain" endlessly. "I think, we better talk this over . . . ". Yes, "let it be me" to point this out.

Amazing universal singer! one of the greats...

Under 30 and he is my favorite artist all time. His words are timeless and I wish my generation could respect great song Writers

do your home work- dylan never joined any movement....period

Under The Red Sky.. is an awesome album...

Blood on the tracks IS his best album. Even if you don't like the guy as a singer, that record is absolutely relatable to every goddamn male on the planet.

I need a Bob Dylan biography movie

Another side of Bob Dylan failing is super disappointing, my back pages was one of the greatest in his catalogue

Good job Mojo! I know you had to keep it short. In Rolling Stone magazine's top 500 albums of all time, Highway 61 Revisited was #2 and Blonde on Blonde #8. He had several others in there. And in their edition of the top 500 songs of all time, Like a Rolling Stone was #1. And, I am not sure what organization did this in 2000, but Like a Rolling Stone was voted #1 as the most important song, or influential song, of the 20th century. And not to get picky, but Blonde on Blonde just happened to come out about one week after his motorcycle accident. Being a huge fan, I just found this out myself: Blonde on Blonde, (B.O.B.), was the first double album ever.

This documentary is shorter than most of Bob Dylan's songs.

Timothée Chalamet will portray this legend. Great choice though.

interview??? seriously?? really?? really?? More like A WASTE OF MY TIME. Its like eating expired butter. Disappointing

Great production WatchMojo... and the Hendrix one as well.

Jewish small town Minnesota kid makes it big. An American success story.

good work mojo

I had tickets to see Bob Dylan in DeKalb , Illinois in 2002 , but he called in sick - No concert 😵 😱 🖤

Grammy
Oscar
Nobel
You know this guy was onto something

Ive noticed that while bob dylan is a great song writer, but man he couldnt sing for a fuck in an under-over whorehouse.

yeah bob

We didn't make it bob but shit we had fun. 😎✌️

I applaud the effort here. Am I the only one who thought the visuals, other than live music shots, were a little off from the dialogue in terms of time/sequence?

freewheelin maybe the single most important album that changed music forever

Y'all are just dead beats. Like of fire awaits you peoples

The most overrated performer of all time.

The greatest American solo artist of all time with Micheal Jackson and Elvis Presly and Clapton

Thanks! Lots of information for an essay I'm writing on him.

When eric claptons cover of knockin on heavens door is more faithful to the studio version than dylans live performance

like a rolling stone is not seen as one of the most influential albums of all time, only rolling stone magazine sais so.. but they are subjective bob dylan fanboys

A brave effort to do this in under 8 minutes

The life and career in less than 8 minutes ? Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah

My dad said he used to play with Bob dylan

he is a musical poet genius his music speaks to people his music speaks to me he understands the everyday human his songs tell a story.. can't wait to see him live for the first time tomorrow night :)

He it’s from Duluth MN. He’s from Hibbing MN. But no one knows where or what Hibbing is. And he hates it there. He got booed off stage in highschool

Just randomly decided to watch this video and today is the anniversary of it

Bizarro not like . me like John lennon and Thomas Paine. Bizarro go now.

Bob Dylan is the solo equivalent to The Beatles

Bob dylan makes me want to go to sleep every god damn time

Muy bueno, y si lo actualizan? O al menos hacer este en versión al español. Muy buen video.