Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan, formerly known as Robert Allen Zimmerman, is an American singer-songwriter, musician and author. Since the release of his first album in 1961, Dylan has had an impact on the pop music and cultural circles for more than 50 years. Most of his best-known works come from the rebel folk songs of the 1960s, and he is widely regarded as a spokesman for the emerging rebellion culture in the United States at the time, although he denied this. Some of his early works became anthems for the American civil rights and anti-war movements of the time, such as "The Answer's Blowing in the Wind" and "The Times They Are a-Changin'." In the mid-1960s, Dylan began to transform from his original protest folk style, and released the six-minute single "Like a Rolling Stone" in 1965, which also changed the traditional classification of pop music. Some of Dylan's songs in the mid-1960s topped the Billboard charts, but they were also criticized by some in the folk movement for their use of rock elements.