75-year-old poet and musician Bob Dylan won the Nobel Prize for Literature "for the creation of a new poetic language in the great American song tradition."
Bob Dylan is a cult figure in the world of rock music. His songs were performed by Marlene Dietrich, Elvis Presley, The Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, Metallica and many other performers. I especially want to note that Bob Dylan became the first musician in history to receive the Nobel prize. In honor of this event we recall the most interesting facts from his life.
20 amazing facts from the life of Bob Dylan
- The grandmother and grandfather of Bob Dylan on his father - came from the Russian Empire. They were Jews from Odessa. And his mother's parents emigrated from Lithuania.
- The real name of Bob Dylan is Robert Allen Zimmerman.
- His first song, which he wrote at the age of 12, was dedicated to Brigitte Bordeaux - the object of his boyish love.
- He is a real fan of chess.
- Not possessing outstanding vocal data, Bob Dylan started two musical styles: country rock and folk rock.
- First, Dylan performed blues and folk-rock, and then moved on to rock. His fans took it very painfully. During one of the concerts, when he performed the song "Like a Rolling Stone", later called the best song of all time, the musician began to boo and shout: "Judas! Traitor!"
- His songs sound more than 400 films. Among them: "Vanilla Sky", "Forrest Gump", "Passion and Hatred in Las Vegas", "American Beauty", "Knockin 'on Heaven".
- When Elvis Presley died in 1977, Bob Dylan remained silent for a whole week and did not say a word. Subsequently, he said that along with Elvis his childhood had passed away.
- His first marriage, Dylan concluded with one of the rabbits "Playboy" - Sarah Loundes. They have four children.
- He does not like to advertise his private life. Once, during the performance, I hid my wife in the closet so that the hosts of the concert would not see her. And about his second marriage, the singer's surroundings found out only 9 years after the divorce.
- In general, he is a ladies' man and a favorite of women. In the long Don Juan list Dylan - singer Joan Baez, actress Edie Sedgwick, Sally Kirkland, Rachel Welch.
- The total circulation of Bob Dylan's records has exceeded 100 million discs.
- In 1985, Bob Dylan first came to Moscow, where it was very cool. He performed at the Poetry Evening, organized by Soviet poets. The public simply did not know about Dylan's visit: the party leadership forbade printing his name on posters, so the hall was half empty. The singer acted under the yawnings of the "correct" party-Komsomol public. He was very upset, almost cried. Immediately after the concert, the poet Andrei Voznesensky took him to his dacha, where he reassured and drank tea.
- In 2008, there was a biopic about Bob Dylan "I'm not There". One of the features of Dylan - rebel Judah - was embodied by actress Keith Blanchett.
- Time Magazine included Dylan in the hundred most influential people of the twentieth century. And the magazine "Rolling Stone" put him in second place in the ranking of the greatest rock musicians.
- Being, of course, a brilliant musician, Dylan can not boast of outstanding vocal data. Here is how the critics described his voice in the last album: "the scream of a zombie toad", "the voice during a gargling", "he fed half a century with bolts and nuts," "a terrifying, inarticulate growl."
- Dylan has 9 grandchildren. On the bumper of his car is pasted a sticker "The Greatest Grandfather of the World."
- In 2004, Bob Dylan for the first time in 40 years, decided to appear in advertising, and not some, and women's underwear! The face of the 62-year-old musician appeared in the commercial of Victoria's Secret, where he starred with Adriana Lima.
- A talented person is talented in everything. Bob Dylan is not only a poet, singer and actor, but also a wonderful artist. His works are exhibited in major museums around the world.
- The musician is a follower of Chabad - the Jewish religious movement.