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Bob Dylan was born on May 24, 1941 as Robert Allen Zimmerman in Duluth, Minnesota. His dad was Abe Zimmerman. He worked for the Standard Oil Company. In 1947, they moved to the small town of Hibbling. When Robert was about ten years old, he began to write poems. He taught himself to play guitar and piano while he was in his early teens. He began to form his own bands. In 1959, he left on his own to go to college in Minneapolis at the University of Minnesota. He started to trace rock, country, and folk music back to their roots. He listened to Hank Williams, Robert Johnson, and Woody Guthrie. There was really no artist that he listened to that didn’t influence him. He dropped out of college in 1960 and went to New York. He became part of the New York folk-music scene. He met his hero, Woody Guthrie, who was hospitalized at the time in New Jersey. In New York he discovered his ability to memorize a song quickly and he began to write more of his own songs. He played so...