BOB DYLAN

IN 2008, BOB DYLAN BECAME THE FIRST ROCK AND ROLL ARTIST TO BE HONORED WITH A PULITZER PRIZE, FOR HIS 'PROFOUND IMPACT ON POPULAR MUSIC AND AMERICAN CULTURE, MARKED BY LYRICAL COMPOSITIONS OF EXTRAORDINARY POETIC POWER'. A MUSICIAN, POET, AND CELEBRATED NONCONFORMIST OF UNPARALLELED STATURE, DYLAN IS REVERED BY CRITICS AND FANS ALIKE AS THE MOST INFLUENTIAL SINGER-SONGWRITER IN THE HISTORY OF POPULAR MUSIC. FOR MORE THAN FOUR DECADES HE HAS BEEN WINNING THE HEARTS AND MINDS OF FOLK AND ROCK LOVERS AROUND THE WORLD. INFUSING A DISTINCT BRAND OF PERSONAL PHILOSOPHY AND SOCIO-POLITICAL COMMENTARY INTO HIS LYRICS, DYLAN HAS JOURNEYED THROUGH A VARIETY OF MUSICAL PHASES, FROM TRADITIONAL FOLK, BLUES, AND COUNTRY, TO GOSPEL AND ROCK AND ROLL, ALL THE WHILE ESTABLISHING A UNIQUE SOUNDTRACK TO OUR LIVES. SETTING OUT IN 1961 AS A YOUNG MAN WITH A GUITAR AND A HARMONICA, THIS ELUSIVE AND ENIGMATIC ARTIST HAS GROWN INTO AN INTERNATIONAL CULTURAL ICON AS A TIRELESS AUTHOR OF OVER 30 ALBUMS AND A R