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Robert Allen Zimmerman was born on the 24th of May 1941 at St. Mary's Hospital in Duluth, Minnesota. He was born into a family of Lithuanian and Russian Jewish immigrants who had fled pogroms in the Russian Empire.
Bob Dylan chose his new name after seeing poems by Dylan Thomas. He later claimed to friends that Dillon was his mother's maiden name, a lie he maintained for years.
On the 29th of July 1966, Bob Dylan crashed his motorcycle, a Triumph Tiger 100, near his home in Woodstock, New York. He said he broke several vertebrae in his neck, but the circumstances of the accident remain unclear since no ambulance was called and he was not hospitalized.
Bob Dylan released the album Blood on the Tracks in early 1975. He delayed the album's release and re-recorded half the songs at Sound 80 Studios in Minneapolis with production assistance from his brother, David Zimmerman.
Bob Dylan won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2016 for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition. He also won a Grammy Award for Album of the Year for Time Out of Mind and an Academy Award for Best Original Song for Things Have Changed.