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This Friday, Bob Dylan's 39th studio album, Rough and Rowdy Ways, will be released around the world. To celebrate the new album and refresh ourselves in preparation, here is a condensed breakdown of Bob Dylan's prolific life, music and legacy. Read Paste's review of Rough and Rowdy Ways right here.

Born Robert Zimmerman in the port city of Duluth, Minn., Bob Dylan grew up listening to the popular rock and country music of the era, such as Elvis Presley, Little Richard and Hank Williams. Yet, it wasn't until he graduated high school, started school at the University of Minnesota and began performing with regional star Bobby Vee that Dylan was first truly exposed to the folk music that would profoundly shape him as an artist. After immersing himself in contemporary folk music during his first year at college, Dylan abandoned his studies and hitchhiked his way to New Jersey to meet his artistic idol, Woody Guthrie. A renowned folk musician and beat poet, Guthrie had been hospitalized for Huntington's Disease by the point at which an enamored Dylan paid him a visit. "You could listen to his songs and actually learn how to live," said Dylan of Guthrie's music in the 2005 documentary No Direction Home. Trading his electric guitar for an acoustic and relocating to New York City directly thereafter, the Robert Zimmerman of the Iron Range was left behind: In his place was Bob Dylan, folk disciple and the soon-to-be voice of a generation.

When Dylan first arrived in Greenwich village, playing sets in tiny run-down bars filled with beat poets and cigarette smoke, his unique rendering of western-folk classics immediately began to attract attention.

His first album, the self titled Bob Dylan, recorded in 1962 and released through Columbia Records, barely sold 5,000 copies in its first year. Yet, this album would both wedge Dylan's foot into the industry's door and allow him to begin crafting a personal mythology for the first time. In Bob Dylan, you can hear as he begins to experiment with his emblematic harmonica, twisting old folk songs into shiny new tunes and bringing together his disparate influences into his own unique sound. Fun fact: Dylan actually stole this "House of the Rising Sun" arrangement from fellow Village musician Dave Van Ronk, who, following the album's release, was unable to perform his own arrangement, as people thought he had stolen it from Dylan.

In 1963, the United States was in the throes of social turmoil. As the civil rights movement continued to unfold and nuclear tensions with the Soviet Union escalated, Dylan released his second album, The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan. Encouraged by his then-girlfriend Suze Rotolo, Dylan had begun trying his hand at writing and performing protest songs informed by the civil rights movement, the nascent anti-war movement and general tumult roiling America. A treasure trove of protest songs, folk ballads and love letters, The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan established Dylan both as a musician and political icon, tackling themes from the ongoing civil rights movement and institutional racism to commentary on America's foreign relations. By mid-1963, after performing alongside Joan Baez at the March on Washington, Dylan had become more than a singer-songwriter: He had become an icon of social change.

Released in 1964, his third album, The Times They Are A-Changin', was an intricately stitched quilt of social commentary and blistering critique of societal injustices, held together by Dylan's reflective poeticism. The album's sixth track, "Only a Pawn in Their Game," perhaps best embodied the revolutionary spirit that informed Dylan's work during this era. "A bullet from the back of a bush took Medgar Evers' blood...Two eyes took the aim / Behind a man's brain / But he can't be blamed / He's only a pawn in their game," Dylan sings in the song's first verse, referring to the assassination of the civil rights activist Medgar Evers and illuminating the realities of systematic racism in America.

Yet, Dylan resisted the categorization of his music as belonging to any particular genre; he didn't enjoy being compartmentalized as an artist-as was detailed in Robert Shelton's No Direction Home: The Life and Music of Bob Dylan -and even less so as a human. By the release of his next album, Dylan had therefore turned inwards once again for his thematic material and inspiration.

In the summer of 1965, while performing a set at the Newport Folk Festival, Dylan was famously booed off stage for the first time. Amid accusations of selling out, Dylan had begun incorporating electric equipment into his sets, much to his fans' displeasure (a displeasure quite arguably rooted less in objective musical criticism than in a sense of betrayal). His subsequent 1966 tour circuit featured both his older acoustic works and his more recent electric ones, placing Dylan in the center of a heated controversy over his motives and authenticity. Although fans at the time felt as if he had betrayed his legacy by "selling out and plugging in," Dylan's first fully electric album, Highway 61 Revisited and his follow-up (and most famously electric) album, Blonde On Blonde, were hugely influential points in folk-rock music, pushing the genre into uncharted territory.

Dylan produced so much brilliant music during this period of time that it is truly difficult to point to one or two songs as representations of the internal and external change that occurred over Dylan's electric years, from the first time he dipped his toe into rock on Bring It All Back Home to his lush, electric smash hit "Like A Rolling Stone." Hear Dylan perform "Like A Rolling Stone" with The Band live in 1974:

For artists, heartbreak often inhabits the space between personal pain and creative productivity. Although the process itself is uncomfortable, as it is for everyone, the experience of heartbreak often leads to an artist's best work. This was undoubtedly the case for Dylan in the years following the disintegration of his marriage with Sara Lownds in 1977. Widely known as "the breakup album," (and one of the best breakup albums ever) Dylan's 1975 record Blood On the Tracks is one of his greatest works, as well as arguably his last album fully rooted in the folk tradition (at least for a while). Written after returning from his 1974 tour and becoming estranged from his wife, the album was influenced by a lecture class Dylan attended taught by Norman Raeben, a New York-based painter who advocated for intuition over conceptualization when creating art.

The album opens with "Tangled Up in Blue," a rich and vivid time-bending fable told by weaving between the first and third person. Dylan said that "(the song) took 10 years to live and two years to write." The album also contains some of Dylan's softest and most delicate work, including tracks like "Shelter From the Storm" and "Buckets of Rain" which contemplated his crumbling relationship with Lownds over acoustic guitar and harmonica.

After releasing his 1975 record, Dylan embarked on a series of tours spanning four years, backed by an enormous ensemble. It was during this time that Dylan's religious explorations dominated his music. Immersing himself in gospel music and scripture, Dylan completed his conversion from Jewish to Evangelical Christian in merely a matter of months in the late 1970s after attending three months of Bible School, as was detailed in Jeremy Roberts' book Bob Dylan: Voice of a Generation. This sudden transformation resulted in three evangelical albums over the next few years: Slow Train Coming, Saved and Shot Of Love. When on tour over the next few years, Dylan refused to play his old secular works, and replaced his on-stage banter with recitations of Bible passages, musings on the apocalypse and bits of scripture.

Although by 1982 Dylan had mostly returned to writing and performing secular works, his years as a proselytizer had cost him a significant portion of his fanbase. Yet, Slow Train Coming was still named one of the 100 greatest albums in Christian music by CCM, and made it to the top of many a Billboard chart. If that's your cup of tea, listen to "Gotta Serve Somebody" from Slow Train Coming below.

While the '60s and '70s gave rise to some of Dylan's greatest works, the '80s gave rise to some of his most underwhelming. To fans of both his acoustic and electric periods, the years spent rebuilding his legacy from 1982-1987 were marked largely by a series of disappointing musical experiments. Out of his born-again phase but having lost many of his fans through radical messaging, Dylan rambled through much of the '80s. In this era, his songwriting felt aimless and lost in its own design, the tangible manifestation of a man searching for his place, both musically and personally. Afloat in a sea of expectations and hazy creative impulses, Dylan sounded profoundly lost. Yet, a closer look at Dylan's output from the '80s reveals a handful of hidden gems. Watch Dylan perform his single "Dark Eyes," a track off his 1985 album Empire Burlesque, live with Patti Smith below.

Climbing out of the fog of the '80s was no easy task, but as years turned to decades, Dylan gradually began to reimagine his creative process and reshape the way he engaged with his audience as a performer. Embarking upon his "never ending tour" in 1988-a tour which has been active for more than 30 years with more than a whopping 3,000 performances-Dylan slowly began to re-harness his creative energy, producing some of the greatest works from the second half of his career such as his Grammy-winning 1997 album Time Out Of Mind, his 2001 album Love And Theft and his lyrically stunning 2012 album Tempest.

In 2016, the Nobel Committee for Literature at the Swedish Academy announced Dylan as that year's laureate, marking the first time a musician had won the Nobel Prize for Literature (and sparking a subsequent impassioned debate whether lyrics can be severed from music and consumed as a separate form of art). Now, eight years after his last album of original material and four years after winning the Nobel Prize, Bob Dylan is set to return this Friday with an album, Rough and Rowdy Ways. The album will include the 17-minute (!) spoken-word ballad released earlier this year, "Murder Most Foul," on which Dylan remembers the '60s, JFK's assassination and his contemporaries at the time.

What is it then about Dylan, an artist who has spent his career resisting definition and rejecting easy classification, that compels us to continue to try to define and classify him? Perhaps it's his reluctance to embrace main-stream approval, as reflected-delightfully, to some, and maddeningly, to others-in his failure to show proper gratitude for the award of the Nobel Prize.

Yet, if we know anything about Bob Dylan, we should know by now to at least try and let go of expectation. It is in that manner that we best prepare ourselves to meet the artist on the only ground he has ever walked: his own.

Revisit a 1988 Bob Dylan concert from the Paste vault below:

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This Friday, Bob Dylan's 39th studio album, Rough and Rowdy Ways, will be released around the world. To celebrate the new album and refresh ourselves in preparation, here is a condensed breakdown of Bob Dylan's prolific life, music and legacy. Read Paste's review of Rough and Rowdy Ways right here.

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Bob Dylan was born in the spring on 1941, during the second world war. "I was born in the spring on 1941. The Second World War was already raging in Europe, and America would soon be in it" (Dylan, 28).

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In 1951, Bob Dylan started going to grade school, since it was still during the wars him and fellow classmates were trained to hide under their desks when the air-raid sirens blew. "One of the things we were trained to do was to hide and take cover under our desks when the air-raid sirens blew because the Russians could attack us with bombs" (Dylan, 29).

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He started college at the University of Minnesota and began performing with regional star Bobby Vee, after this he was exposed to the folk music that would profoundly shape him as an artist. After immersing himself in folk music he abandoned his studies and went to New Jersey

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"America was changing. I had a feeling of destiny and I was riding the changes. New York was as good a place to be as any" (Dylan, 73). Bob Dylan went to New York for more opportunities within his job; singing.

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Bob Dylan made his first record deal with John Hammond at Columbia Records. Bob Dylan had met Lou Levy who was the top man of Leeds Music Publishing company.
"John Hammond, who had brought me to Columbia Records, had taken me over to see Lou, asked him to look after me" (Dylan, 4).

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Billy James had given Bob Dylan one of his first interviews. Which Bob had decided almost immediately that he didn't enjoy them, he just wanted to get the questions quickly answered.
"He took out a notepad and pencil and asked me where I was from. I told him I was from Illinois and he wrote it down....I hated these kind of questions. Felt I could ignore them" (Dylan, 7-8).

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After being with the record deal for a while, he started writing more of his own songs. He started composing smaller things like small poems, then writing longer poems and memorizing them. He grew to compose more of his own work. "I can't say when it occurred to me to write my own songs. I couldn't have come up with anything comparable or halfway close to the folk song lyrics I was singing to define the way I felt about the world" (Dylan, 51).

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His first album, recorded in 1962 and was released through Columbia Records. It barely sold 5,000 copies in its first year. This album wedged Dylan's foot into the folk music industry.

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In the summer of 1965, while performing a set at the Newport Folk Festival, Dylan was famously booed off stage for the first time. He begun incorporating electric equipment into his sets, much of his fans' displeasure.

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Bob Dylan first married Sara Lownds, a model and a secretary in November 1965. "My wife went with her. I glanced around the room" (Dylan, 109).

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Bob Dylan and his first wife Sara Lownds had their first child, Jesse Bryon Dylan on January 6, 1966. They had three other children later on: Anna Lea, Samuel Isaac Abram, and Jakob Luke. "...-I, too, was a father three times over-..." (Dylan 108).

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Ut's Bob Dylan's 80th birthday and on this occasion, his children shared what they thought about their father. Dylan was married to Sara Dylan till 1977 and the two share four children - Jesse Byron Dylan, Anna Lea, Samuel Isaac Abram and Jakob Luke.

Dylan also adopted Sara's daughter Maria Lownds, who later became Maria Dylan. After divorce from Sara, Dylan married his backup singer Carolyn Dennis and the two had a daughter Desiree Gabrielle Dennis-Dylan. However, information regarding his marriage to Dennis or their daughter was kept away from the limelight until the publication of Howard Sounes's biography 'Down the Highway: The Life of Bob Dylan' in 2001. The two divorced in 1992.
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Where are Bob Dylan's children now?

Maria Dylan

Maria who was adopted by Dylan after his marriage to Sara is currently living away from the spotlight.

Jesse Dylan

Jesse is Sara and Dylan's first biological child and he is also in the entertainment industry. However, unlike his father, Jesse is a director and producer who has worked on multiple projects like 'American Wedding', a few episodes of 'Instant Def', and Will.i.am's Emmy Award-winning music video 'Yes We Can'. He is also the founder of Wondros, which is a global creative agency and production company. According to Jesse's LinkedIn page, his company's mission is "to inspire passion, engage, and motivate people to take action in healthcare, cybersecurity, politics, and other areas for change."

Anna Dylan

Anna Dylan follows in the footsteps of her eldest sister Maria and has remained away from the spotlight. She is also not present on any of the social media websites. According to a report in Daily Mail, however, she is an artist.

Samuel Dylan

Not much is known about Samuel, except that he is married to Stacy Dylan and has a son Lowell Dylan, who reportedly has a disability that the couple had revealed while organizing a fundraiser. Lowell has Crohn's Disease and speaking about this, Stacy said, "Lowell is now 14, and taking care of him, the younger of two children, is a full-time job and more. His care requires special diets and monitoring, along with dealing with tutors, doctors, specialists, massage therapists, hypnotherapists. I'm basically a case manager, mom and a cook."

Jakob Dylan

Jacob is one of the two children of Dylan's who followed in his footsteps and he became the lead vocalist of The Wallflowers. Jakob also has another similarity with his father and that is the way he keeps his personal life away from the spotlight.

Yet, he once spoke about his father and said, "Other people have put that tag on [Bob] in some otherworldly sense. I say it as any kid who admired his dad and had a great relationship with him." He also pointed out that his father would never miss his Little League games and he also collected all of the balls with which Jakob hit home run.

Desiree Dennis-Dylan

For the longest time, Desiree's birth and her relationship with Dylan had been kept a secret. Even Dylan's marriage to her mother had been a secret that was only outed in 2001. However, supporting Dylan, Desiree's mother Carolyn said, "to portray Bob as hiding his daughter is just malicious and ridiculous. That is something he would never do. Bob has been a wonderful, active father to Desiree."

Carolyn Dennis (Getty Images)

At the time when Sounes' biography was published, Carolyn released a statement in which she also said, "Bob and I made a choice to keep our marriage a private matter for a simple reason - to give our daughter a normal childhood." Calling her dad "one of the funniest, wisest and most humble," Desiree said, "The world may know him as a lot of things, but to me he's always been Dad. And I love him for it."

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Ut's Bob Dylan's 80th birthday and on this occasion, his children shared what they thought about their father. Dylan was married to Sara Dylan till 1977 and the two share four children - Jesse Byron Dylan, Anna Lea, Samuel Isaac Abram and Jakob Luke. Dylan also adopted Sara's daughter Maria Lownds, who later became Maria Dylan.

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Bob Dylan had a mysterious motorcycle accident back in 1966, when he crashed in some twisty roads near Woodstock, New York. "I had been in a motorcycle accident and I'd been hurt, but I recovered" (Dylan, 114).

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May 29, 1968. "I had just returned to Woodstock from the Midwest-- from my father's funeral" (Dylan, 107). Bob Dylan's father died.

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In 1977, his marriage with Sara Lownds was disintegrating. "Shelter From the Storm" and "Buckets of Rain" which contemplated his crumbling relationship with Lownds, was very popular and some of his most delicate work.

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In late 1970s after attending three months of Bible School, Dylan completed his conversion from Jewish to Evangelical Christian.

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In the 80s gave rise to some of his most underwhelming musical work. The years spent rebuilding his legacy from 1982-87 were marked largely by a series of disappointing musical experiments.

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Within these mid-to late-80s Dylan started losing himself in his songwriting. It began to start feeling aimless. He didn't have many creative impulses, sounding profoundly lost.

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In 1988 the "Never Ending Tour" had begun and has been going on for more than 30 years, with more than 3,000 performances. Dylan slowly began to re-harness his creative energy, producing the greatest work from the second half of his career, such as his Grammy-winning 1997 album Time Out Of Mind

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In 2016, the Nobel Committee for Literature at the Swedish Academy announced Dylan as that year's laureate, making the first time a musician had won the Nobel Prize for Literature.

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Bob Dylan in 2009. Picture: Getty

Bob Dylan is one of the world's most popular and respected musicians of all time.

The American musician is often regarded as one of the greatest songwriters of all time, and he hasn't been far away from pop culture for over 50 years.

First emerging in the 1960s, Bob Dylan's songs such as 'Blowin' in the Wind' and 'The Times They Are a-Changin' became anthems for the civil rights and anti-war movements of the era.

He was one of the first mainstream artists to move away from traditional pop music conventions, and sang songs about various political, social and philosophical topics, inspiring countless others.

After moving into electric rock in the mid-1960s, he released three hugely influential albums of the decade: Bringing It All Back Home, Blonde on Blonde, and Highway 61 Revisited, the latter of which included the iconic single 'Like a Rolling Stone'.

Over the years, he has tried out various genres ranging from jazz to gospel to country, and is now one of the best-selling artists of all time.

During his career, he has won the Presidential Medal of Freedom, 10 Grammy Awards, a Golden Globe Award and an Oscar. In 2016, he was even awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature "for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition".

1. How old is Bob Dylan, what is his real name and where is he from?

Bob Dylan. Picture: Getty

Bob Dylan was born on May 24, 1941. He celebrates his 80th birthday in 2021.

His birth name was Robert Allen Zimmerman, and he was born in Duluth, Minnesota.

Bob's paternal grandparents, Anna Kirghiz and Zigman Zimmerman, emigrated from Odessa in the Russian Empire (now Ukraine) to the US in the early 1900s. His maternal grandparents, Florence and Ben Stone, were Lithuanian Jews who arrived in the US in 1902.

His father Abram Zimmerman, and his mother Beatrice 'Beatty' Stone, were part of a small Jewish community. They lived in Duluth until Bob was six, when his father had polio and the family returned to his mother's hometown in Hibbing.

There, his father and paternal uncles ran a furniture and appliances store. It was here that he first listened to the radio to blues and country stations.

2. How did Bob Dylan get his start in music?

Bob Dylan formed various bands at high school. With the Golden Chords, he performed covers of songs by Little Richard, and Elvis Presley. Their performance of Danny & the Juniors' 'Rock and Roll Is Here to Stay' at their high school talent show was apparently so loud, the principal cut off the microphone. What a square.

At his fraternity, he began to perform at a coffeehouse near campus, and began to introduce himself as 'Bob Dylan'. He later explained that he wanted to use the surname Dillon before finding poems by Dylan Thomas, and decided upon that less common spelling.

He said: "You're born, you know, the wrong names, wrong parents. I mean, that happens. You call yourself what you want to call yourself. This is the land of the free."

In May 1960, he dropped out of college at the end of his first year. The following year, he travelled to New York City to perform and visit his idol Woody Guthrie.

He soon began playing at clubs around Greenwich Village, and became close to other folk singers such as Dave Van Ronk, Fred Neil, Odetta, and the Clancy Brothers.

After positive reviews and appearing as a backing artist on some albums, he signed a record deal with Columbia Records.

3. Who is Bob Dylan's wife?

Bob Dylan and first wife Sara Lownds in 1969. Picture: Getty

Bob Dylan first married Sara Lownds, a model and a secretary, in November 1965. The couple eventually divorced in June 1977.

He then married his backup singer Carolyn Dennis in June 1986, but divorced in October 1992. Their marriage and child remained a secret until the publication of Howard Sounes's biography Down the Highway: The Life of Bob Dylan, in 2001.

4. How many children does Bob Dylan have?

Bob Dylan's son Jesse Dylan. Picture: Getty

With first wife Sara, Bob Dylan had four children together: Jesse Byron Dylan (born 1966), Anna Lea (born 1967), Samuel Isaac Abram (born 1968), and Jakob Luke (born 1969).

He also adopted Sara's daughter from a previous marriage, Maria Lownds (later Dylan, born 1961).

Bob Dylan's son Jakob Dylan. Picture: Getty

Jakob later became well known as the lead singer of the band the Wallflowers, while Jesse is a film director and business executive.

With second wife Carolyn Dennis, he had a daughter, Desiree Gabrielle Dennis-Dylan, who was born in 1986.

5. What is Bob Dylan's net worth?

According to Celebrity Net Worth, Bob Dylan has a net worth of around £252 million ($350 million).

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Bob Dylan is one of the world's most popular and respected musicians of all time. The American musician is often regarded as one of the greatest songwriters of all time, and he hasn't been far away from pop culture for over 50 years.

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Eight years after his last album of original material and four years after winning the Nobel Prize, Bob Dylan released his newest album "Rough and Rowdy Ways" in 2020.

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Bob Dylan, American folksinger who moved from folk to rock music in the 1960s, infusing the lyrics of rock and roll with the intellectualism of classic literature and poetry. Dylan wrote more than 500 songs recorded by more than 2,000 artists. Learn more about his life, his artistry, and his accolades.