Bob Dylan
Some of the key events about Bob Dylan
- 1961Released debut album "Bob Dylan" on Columbia Records
- 1963Performed at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom
- 1965Released the influential album "Highway 61 Revisited" featuring "Like a Rolling Stone"
- 1965Faced backlash from folk purists for using an electric guitar at the Newport Folk Festival
- 1966Released the double album "Blonde on Blonde", considered one of the greatest albums of all time
- 1966Was booed and called "Judas" by audience members during a concert in Manchester, England
- 1966Involved in a motorcycle accident that led to a prolonged period of seclusion
- 1970Received an honorary doctorate from Princeton University
- 1970Released the poorly received album "Self Portrait," which was widely criticized
- 1978Announced conversion to Christianity, alienating some fans and critics
- 1979Released the controversial gospel album "Slow Train Coming," dividing his fanbase
- 1985Made controversial comments about Ethiopian famine relief efforts in an interview
- 1988Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
- 1997Performed for Pope John Paul II at the World Eucharistic Congress in Bologna
- 1997Hospitalized with a life-threatening heart infection, causing tour cancellations
- 2000Won the Academy Award for Best Original Song for "Things Have Changed"
- 2006Accused of plagiarism in his memoir "Chronicles: Volume One"
- 2008Awarded a Pulitzer Prize Special Citation for his profound impact on popular music and American culture
- 2012Faced allegations of plagiarism in his paintings exhibited at the Gagosian Gallery
- 2016Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature "for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition"
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