Dylan's Six-Decade Musical Journey

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Harvard's diving deep into Bob Dylan with a full-class next year, tracing his six decades

as a musical and literary force.

The course covers his shift from folk and protest roots to electric rock, gospel, and endless

reinventions across songs, books, films, and paintings.

It's a sign of how this guy's lyrics still shape culture like nobody else.

In Robert Zimmerman and Duluth, Minnesota, he grabbed his stage name from poet Dylan

Thomas and grew up in nearby Hibbing.

Early hits like Mr. Timberman got huge covers from the birds and Peter, Paul, and Mary,

while his backup band became the band.

That electric switch at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival even got him booed by purists.

Dylan's reach hits everywhere.

Timothy Schallamay channeled him in a complete unknown for an astronaut, and I'm not there.

That stars like Kate Blanchett, playing his personas.

A handwritten, like a Rolling Stone draft sold for $2 million, and he won an Oscar for

things have changed from Wonder Boys.

His son, Jacob, fronts the wallflowers, keeping the family by the live.

Fans still geek out over trivia like his harmonica of session, knocking on heaven's door for

Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid, or that soy bomb guy, crashing his Grammy set.

He skipped Stockholm for his Nobel and literature win, and groups like Judas Priest named themselves

after his tunes.

Even Airbnb used his songs and ads.

Dylan's free willing spirit keeps blowing in the wind, from highway 61 to forever young

blessings, proving one voice can echo through.

Generations without missing a beat.