Bob Dylan is a unique talent: writer of some of the most memorable popular songs of the twentieth century as well as a charismatic performer and cultural influence on succeeding generations of audiences and artists. In his teens, Dylan began to play and sing in local bands and when he left school his main ambition, as recorded in his high school yearbook, was “to join Little Richard.” But it was folk, not rock ’n’ roll, which gave the young Dylan his first taste of fame when he moved to New York, became part of the burgeoning folk music scene, and recorded a series of albums cementing his fame as a leading light of the early sixties protest movement.

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