He has sold more than 125 million albums around the world.
You can take a course in Bob Dylan Studies at the University of Tulsa.
A Harvard Professor who has spent half a century decoding Bob’s imagery, sources and allusions puts him on the same pedestal as Ovid, Dante and Virgil.
He ranks as the top songwriter for the total number of unique song titles covered by other artists, with nearly 400 of his songs recorded across thousands of versions.
Sean Latham, director of the Institute for Bob Dylan Studies said "The closest parallels we can draw in fact are not to other pop stars but to say Picasso or James Joyce."
He introduced The Beatles to marijuana.
He has been awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 2008, the US Medal of Freedom, and the Nobel Prize for Literature.
He is Bob Dylan – widely acknowledged as one of the most important figures of the modern day and one of the greatest and most influential songwriters of all time who has reshaped popular music by elevating lyric writing to a profound literary art form.
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