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-'''Bob Dylan''' (24 May 1941) is an American folk and rock singer guitarist and activist. He is widely considered one of the greatest and most influential songwriters of all time. He scored several hit songs, including ''"Blowin' In The Wind"'' (1963), ''"Don't Think Twice, It's All Right"'' (1963), ''"The Times They Are-A Changin"'' (1964), ''"Like A Rolling Stone"'' (1965), ''"[[Mr. Tambourine Man]]"'' (1965), ''"[[Everybody Must Get Stoned]]"'' (aka ''Rainy Day Women #12 & 35'', 1966), ''"Just Like A Woman"'' (1966), ''"All Along the Watchtower"'' (1968), ''"Lay Lady Lay"'' (1969), ''"Knockin' On Heaven's Door"'' (1973) and "''Tangled Up In Blue"'' (1975). Several of his 1960s albums have become classics, along with his 1975 album ''Blood On The Tracks''.
+'''Bob Dylan''' (24 May 1941) is an American folk and rock singer guitarist and activist. Born, Robert Zimmerman, he took the name ''Bob Dylan'', in tribute to Welsh poet [[Dylan Thomas]].
-A mysterious and difficult to categorize figure, Dylan has reached a legendary status in the music world. He has often received awards, including the 2016 Nobel Prize for Literature as the first musician to win this prize.
+Bob Dylan is widely considered one of the greatest and most influential songwriters of all time. Dylan elevated songwriting by introducing more poetic, philosophical and introspective lyrics, which inspired countless singer-songwriters all over the world: [[The Beatles]], [[Joan Baez]], [[Barry McGuire]], [[David Bowie]], Leonard Cohen, Bob Marley, [[Jimi Hendrix]], ...
 Earlier in his career Dylan had a relationship with fellow folk musician [[Joan Baez]]. Dylan is also depicted on the cover of [[The Beatles]]' ''[[Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band]]'' album.
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 Zappa mentioned Bob Dylan in his list of influences inside the sleeve of ''"[[Freak Out!]]" (1966)'', under the heading: ''"These People Have Contributed Materially In Many Ways To Make Our Music What It Is. Please Do Not Hold It Against Them"''.
 ''"Dylan's 'Subterranean Homesick Blues' was a monster record. I heard that thing and I was jumping all over the car. And then when I heard the one after that, 'Like a Rolling Stone', I wanted to quit the music business, because I felt: 'If this wins and it does what it's supposed to do, I don't need to do anything else', but it didn't do anything. It sold; but nobody responded to it the way that they should have. (...) It didn't happen right away, and I was a little disappointed. I figured, 'Well, shit, maybe it needs a little reinforcing."'' - [[Frank Kofsky interviews FZ]], 1968)
-''"As for Dylan, '[[Highway 61 Revisited]]' was really good. Then we got 'Blonde on Blonde' and it started to sound like cowboy music, and you know what I think of cowboy music."'' - Playboy-interview (1993)
+''"I don't think they're doing anybody a favour except themselves. You don't think for instance, that unreleased tapes by people like Dylan and so forth have any value for the listener? I would say this – if those tapes were intended for release, then I'm sure that Dylan or whoever would have put them out. I wouldn't appreciate somebody taking something I didn't want released and putting it out. That's not doing a favour to anybody, except the bootlegger who's going to trade in on the name of the artist. - Frank Zappa, ''[[Frank Zappa: Portrait of the Artist as a Businessman]]'', interviewed by Rob Partridge/Paul Phillips, Cream, January 1972.
-Bob Dylan visited Zappa on December 22, 1982, showing up at FZ's door, in the freezing cold, to play some songs on the piano; he asks FZ if he would produce an album (what turned out to be ''"Infidels"'') for him. Dylan did not get in touch with FZ after that; ''"Infidels"'' was produced by Bob Dylan & Mark Knopfler and released in 1983.
+On 13 February 2022, interviewed by Jeff Slate for The Wall Street Journal, <ref>https://www.wsj.com/articles/bob-dylan-interview-11671471665?st=h8x4cy120qvjpl4&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink</ref> Dylan said that, during the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown measures, he listened to ''[[Freak Out!]]'': ''"I listened to The Mothers of Invention record Freak Out!, that I hadn’t heard in a long, long time. What an eloquent record. No doubt about it, Zappa was light years ahead of his time. I’ve always thought that."'' <ref>https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/musician-bob-dylan-called-light-years-ahead-of-everybody/</ref>
-''[[Flakes]]'', a song on FZ's ''[[Sheik Yerbouti]]'' album, contains a Dylan parody, with guitarist [[Adrian Belew]] doing the Dylan "voice". FZ asks in the background, "Wanna buy some Mandies, Bob?". Mandies is slang for no longer manufactured British [[wikipedia:Methaqualone|Methaqualone]] based tablets Mandrax which were similar to Quaaludes.
+==See also==
 ==External links==
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-[[Category:Favorite Artists|Dylan, Bob]]
+[[Category:Favorite Folk Artists|Dylan, Bob]]
 [[Category:Targets|Dylan, Bob]]
 [[Category:Singers|Dylan, Bob]]

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 ''"Dylan's 'Subterranean Homesick Blues' was a monster record. I heard that thing and I was jumping all over the car. And then when I heard the one after that, 'Like a Rolling Stone', I wanted to quit the music business, because I felt: 'If this wins and it does what it's supposed to do, I don't need to do anything else', but it didn't do anything. It sold; but nobody responded to it the way that they should have. (...) It didn't happen right away, and I was a little disappointed. I figured, 'Well, shit, maybe it needs a little reinforcing."'' - [[Frank Kofsky interviews FZ]], 1968)
-''"As for Dylan, 'Highway 61 Revisited' was really good. Then we got 'Blonde on Blonde' and it started to sound like cowboy music, and you know what I think of cowboy music."'' - Playboy-interview (1993)
+''"As for Dylan, '[[Highway 61 Revisited]]' was really good. Then we got 'Blonde on Blonde' and it started to sound like cowboy music, and you know what I think of cowboy music."'' - Playboy-interview (1993)
 Bob Dylan visited Zappa on December 22, 1982, showing up at FZ's door, in the freezing cold, to play some songs on the piano; he asks FZ if he would produce an album (what turned out to be ''"Infidels"'') for him. Dylan did not get in touch with FZ after that; ''"Infidels"'' was produced by Bob Dylan & Mark Knopfler and released in 1983.

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 A mysterious and difficult to categorize figure, Dylan has reached a legendary status in the music world. He has often received awards, including the 2016 Nobel Prize for Literature as the first musician to win this prize.
-Earlier in his career Dylan had a relationship with fellow folk musician [[Joan Baez]]. Dylan is also depicted on the cover of [[The Beatles]]' ''[[Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band]]'' album.
+Earlier in his career Dylan had a relationship with fellow folk musician [[Joan Baez]]. Dylan is also depicted on the cover of [[The Beatles]]' ''[[Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band]]'' album.
 ==Zappa and Bob Dylan==

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 Bob Dylan visited FZ on December 22, 1982, showing up at FZ's door, in the freezing cold, to play some songs on the piano; he asks FZ if he would produce an album (what turned out to be "Infidels") for him. Dylan did not get in touch with FZ after that; "Infidels" was produced by Bob Dylan & Mark Knopfler and released in 1983.
-"[[Flakes]]", a song on FZ's [[Sheik Yerbouti]] album, contains a Dylan parody, with guitarist [[Adrian Belew]] doing the Dylan "voice". FZ asks in the background, "Wanna buy some Mandies, Bob?". Mandies is slang for no longer manufactured British [[wikipedia:Methaqualone|Methaqualone]] based tablets Mandrax which were similar to Quaaludes.
+"[[Flakes]]", a song on FZ's ''[[Sheik Yerbouti]]'' album, contains a Dylan parody, with guitarist [[Adrian Belew]] doing the Dylan "voice". FZ asks in the background, "Wanna buy some Mandies, Bob?". Mandies is slang for no longer manufactured British [[wikipedia:Methaqualone|Methaqualone]] based tablets Mandrax which were similar to Quaaludes.
 ==See also==
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 * [[Mr. Tambourine Man]]
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+[[Category:Guitarists|Dylan, Bob]]
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