Amazing Facts About Bob Dylan
* Before he renamed himself Bob Dylan, Robert Allen Zimmerman briefly went by Elston Gunn.
* Dylan's father, Abe, was a semi-professional baseball player before he contracted polio in his early twenties.
* According to Bob Spitz, author of The Beatles: The Biography, it was Dylan who first introduced the Fab Four to marijuana.
* The phrase next to Robert Zimmerman's picture in the 1959 Hibbing High School Yearbook was "To join Little Richard."
* Dylan's first professional recording was as a harmonica player at a Harry Belafonte session.
* His great-grandfather and uncles owned the biggest movie theaters in Hibbing, Minnesota, allowing a young Dylan to watch films for free.
* After seeing Rebel Without a Cause, Dylan became obsessed with James Dean.
* In 10th grade, Dylan and his back-up band were rejected from a high school talent show because the student council judged his performance at the audition too shocking.
* Before he flunked out of the University of Minnesota, Dylan pledged to the fraternity Sigma Alpha Mu.
* In college, Dylan was known for scamming his friends out of cigarettes and articles of clothing.
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