Top 10 Things You Didn’t Know About Bob Dylan
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Happy birthday Bob Dylan! The famous Minnesota-native was born on this day in 1941 at 9:05 p.m., and named Robert Allen Zimmerman. Here’s the top 10 of things you didn’t know about him.
1. According to Bob Spitz, author of The Beatles: The Biography
, it was Dylan who first introduced the Beatles to marijuana.
2. Dylan has nine grandchildren and sports a bumper sticker on his car that reads “World’s Greatest Grandpa.”
3. Bob Dylan appeared with Joni Mitchell on the first episode of The Johnny Cash Show.
4. One night at Max’s Kansas City, Dylan and his road manager, Bob Neuwirth, insulted The Rolling Stones’ Brian Jones until Jones broke down in tears.
5. Since 1988, as part of his “Never-Ending Tour,” Bob Dylan has played at least 100 concerts per year
6. An offhand comment Dylan made at Live Aid inspired Willie Nelson to organize Farm Aid.
7. Last year, Dylan was detained by the police in New Jersey after a homeowner spotted him wandering around a residential block in the rain.
8. In college, Dylan was known for scamming his friends out of cigarettes and articles of clothing.
9. Before he flunked out of the University of Minnesota, Dylan pledged to the fraternity Sigma Alpha Mu.
10. And one quote:
“Being noticed can be a burden. Jesus got himself crucified because he got himself noticed. So I disappear a lot.”
