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The Shakespeare of his generation
The Shakespeare of his generation American folk singer-songwriter and musician Bob Dylan performing at the March on Washington for civil rights on August 28, 1963.

Bob Dylan

American singer-songwriter
Also known as: Robert Allen Zimmerman
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Al Kooper
As a musician, songwriter, and producer, Al Kooper has been involved with rock music since 1958. A member of the seminal blues-rock band the Blues Project, he also founded the jazz-rock group Blood, Sweat...
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Bob Dylan (born May 24, 1941, Duluth, Minnesota, U.S.) is an American singer and songwriter who moved from folk to rock music in the 1960s, infusing the lyrics of rock and roll—theretofore concerned mostly with boy-girl romantic innuendo—with the intellectualism of classic literature and poetry. Hailed as the Shakespeare of his generation, Dylan sold tens of millions of albums, wrote more than 500 songs recorded by more than 2,000 artists, performed all over the world,...

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