Timeline of Bob Dylan's
Life and Music
prepared by Skylar Burris
Life, Religion, and Various Events |
Albums & Awards |
| May 24, 1941--Robert Allen Zimmerman is born | |
| 1948--Zimmerman family moves to Hibbing, MN | |
| 1954--Robert Zimmerman has his bar mitzvah | |
| 1959--Zimmerman graduates from Hibbing High School. He enrolls in the University of Minnesota and moves into a Jewish fraternity house | |
| 1960--moves out of the frat. house. Changes his name to Dylan | |
| 1961--having dropped out of the University of Minnesota, Dylan moves to New York and records his first album | 1961--Bob Dylan recorded (released 1962) |
| 1963--The Freewhelin' Bob Dylan | |
| 1964--The Times They Are a-Changin' Another Side of Bob Dylan |
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| 1965--Brining it All Back Home Highway 61 Revisited |
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| 1966--marries Sara | 1966--Blonde on Blonde |
| 1967--Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits |
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| 1968--John Wesley Harding | |
| 1969--Nashville Skyline | |
| 1970--Publishes book of poems, Tarantula | 1970--Self Portrait New Morning |
| 1971--Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits, Vol. 2 | |
| 1973--Pat Garret and Billy the Kid Dylan |
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| 1974--Planet Waves Before the Flood |
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| 1975--Blood on the Tracks Basement Tapes |
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| 1976--Desire Hard Rain |
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| 1977--Sara Dylan files for divorce | |
| November 26, 1978--when singing "Tangled Up in Blue," he changes the book which is mentioned in the song from one "written by an Italian poet from the 13th century" to "the Gospel According to Matthew" | 1978--Street Legal Bob Dylan at Budokan recorded (released 1979) |
| 1979--Dylan's girlfriend asks two pastors of the Vineyard Fellowship in California to talk to him about Jesus. He admits that he wants Christ in his life, and prays and receives Him. For 3 months, he attends a course at the School of Discipleship. In February, he is baptized. He begins preaching at his shows and singing songs with Christian messages. | 1979--Slow Train Wins Grammy for Best Rock Vocal Performance By a Male for his single, "Gotta Serve Somebody." |
| 1980--Saved | |
| 1981--Shot of Love | |
| 1983- Dylan studies at the Lubavitchers' center in Brooklyn (a Jewish Hasidic sect). Attends the bar mitzvah of his eldest son, Jesse. | 1983--Infidels |
| 1984--Real Live | |
| 1985--Empire Burlesque Biograph |
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| 1986--Knocked out Loaded | |
| 1987-- opens his concert tour by saying, I’m gonna sing a song about my hero." He then plays "In the Garden" from his album Saved. | |
| 1988--Down in the Groove Traveling Wilburys Volume One |
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| 1989--Dylan and the Dead Oh Mercy |
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| 1990--Under the Red Sky Traveling Wilburys Volume Three |
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| 1991--Bootleg Series Grammy Life Time Achievement Award |
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| 1992--Good As I Been To You | |
| 1993--World Gone Wrong | |
| 1994--appears on MTV unplugged | |
| 1995--MTV Unplugged Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits Vol. 3 |
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| 1997--Time Out of Mind Kennedy Center Honors |
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| 2001--Love and Theft |
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