Bob Dylan Accomplishments
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Music in our world is different from other countries. Music can not just become unique by itself, though, so our world's famous musicians come in. Out of many, Bob Dylan ranks one of the top musicians to influence today's music. Even though in the past, Bob Dylan’s personal life had many struggles, he has had countless accomplishments throughout his music career, ultimately forming American popular music. His childhood was full of time with his band, leading up to his solo career. He continued his career after many changes and after a life long career, still enjoys music just as much as when he was young. Dylan was very intrigued by music as a child who played in bands. Dylan’s ambition to be a singer was triggered by many rock artists …show more content…
At the time, Dylan was trying to change his image, rapidly at that, so when he discovered Woody Guthrie, no one was appalled when he became just like him. Dylan had always desired to be a different person than he really was, so what did he do? He listened to as much folk music as he could get, and basically changed his image so no one would know him as Bobby Zimmerman anymore. On his way to stardom, Dylan produced his first song and in the midst of it all, became more and more like Bob Dylan and less and less like Bobby Zimmerman (Jarnow, 2014). Dylan changed many things about himself and his style of music. He changed from performing rock and roll to folk, but most importantly, he changed from Bobby Zimmerman to Bob Dylan. Many people believe the main reason Dylan chose his current last name over his own last name, Zimmerman, was because he liked Dylan Thomas, a poet (Roberts, …show more content…
Dylan was an expert at playing harmonica, so it wasn’t a surprise when he played harmonica in his first song in the studio booth (Jarnow, 2014). When Dylan had yet another performance, this time at Gerde’s Folk City, standing right before him was New York Times music reviewer, Robert Shelton. Shelton was intrigued by Dylan’s music and wanted more information (Roberts, 2005). In November 1961, Dylan finally created his first album with the help of his producer, John Hammond (Jarnow, 2014). When word about Dylan’s new hit came out, he was made even more famous. Even though Dylan was a small town hit, he made it on the Hot 100 list in no time. “Like a Rolling Stone” was a very long song, but made number two on the list (Jarnow, 2014). Dylan was striving in his career, but after a major accident, rumors started to emerge. Because of brake problems, Dylan suffered major injuries after being thrown completely off of his motorcycle. After the accident, reporters were following a premise that Dylan hadn’t even explained. Many thought it was his brakes, but others thought he was under the influence of drugs (Jarnow,
Music in our world is different from other countries. Music can not just become unique by itself, though, so our world's famous musicians come in. Out of many, Bob Dylan ranks one of the top musicians to influence today's music. Even though in the past, Bob Dylan’s personal life had many struggles, he has had countless accomplishments throughout his music career, ultimately forming American popular music. His childhood was full of time with his band, leading up to his solo career. He continued his career after many changes and after a life long career, still enjoys music just as much as when he was young. Dylan was very intrigued by music as a child who played in bands. Dylan’s ambition to be a singer was triggered by many rock artists …show more content…
At the time, Dylan was trying to change his image, rapidly at that, so when he discovered Woody Guthrie, no one was appalled when he became just like him. Dylan had always desired to be a different person than he really was, so what did he do? He listened to as much folk music as he could get, and basically changed his image so no one would know him as Bobby Zimmerman anymore. On his way to stardom, Dylan produced his first song and in the midst of it all, became more and more like Bob Dylan and less and less like Bobby Zimmerman (Jarnow, 2014). Dylan changed many things about himself and his style of music. He changed from performing rock and roll to folk, but most importantly, he changed from Bobby Zimmerman to Bob Dylan. Many people believe the main reason Dylan chose his current last name over his own last name, Zimmerman, was because he liked Dylan Thomas, a poet (Roberts, …show more content…
Dylan was an expert at playing harmonica, so it wasn’t a surprise when he played harmonica in his first song in the studio booth (Jarnow, 2014). When Dylan had yet another performance, this time at Gerde’s Folk City, standing right before him was New York Times music reviewer, Robert Shelton. Shelton was intrigued by Dylan’s music and wanted more information (Roberts, 2005). In November 1961, Dylan finally created his first album with the help of his producer, John Hammond (Jarnow, 2014). When word about Dylan’s new hit came out, he was made even more famous. Even though Dylan was a small town hit, he made it on the Hot 100 list in no time. “Like a Rolling Stone” was a very long song, but made number two on the list (Jarnow, 2014). Dylan was striving in his career, but after a major accident, rumors started to emerge. Because of brake problems, Dylan suffered major injuries after being thrown completely off of his motorcycle. After the accident, reporters were following a premise that Dylan hadn’t even explained. Many thought it was his brakes, but others thought he was under the influence of drugs (Jarnow,