Bob Dylan / Summer in the City Mainz 2019

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Concerts - Rock & Pop
Mainz People's Park
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55130 Mainz

Only rock musician awarded Nobel Prize in Literature

Bob Dylan is undoubtedly considered the most important single performer of the rock era, the incarnation of a counterculture and songwriter of the century. The exceptional artist means "to pop music what Einstein meant to physics," wrote the US news magazine Newsweek.

Bob Dylan's overriding importance was also expressed in the award of the Nobel Prize for Literature, which he was the only musician to receive to date. The numerous Grammy awards, also for his life's work, document the great recognition of the brilliant singer/songwriter. In the spring and summer of 2019, the pioneer of folk and rock music, whose total circulation is more than 110 million records, comes to Germany for live concerts.

Bob Dylan reinvented himself again and again, transformed himself, changed direction, dipped, only to rise meteorically once more. Dylan did not allow himself to be taken over; he set the tempo, rhythm and content. With his songs he defined ideals, fears, moods of generations. The poetry of his lyrics and the lyricism of his songs gave him literary quality; his keen powers of observation and political understanding made him the natural mouthpiece of the youth whose awakening he helped initiate and accompany in the 1960s.

Dylan songs are not only classics, but poetry true to life. Many of them have gone down in American literature: "The Times They are A-Changin' ", "Blowin' in the Wind", "Like a Rolling Stone", "A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall", "Chimes of Freedom" - to name a few.

"Blowin' in the Wind," arguably the most famous song penned by Bob Dylan, describes the attitude toward life of his generation. This song, written in the early 60s, interpreted by countless artists like Joan Baez or Pete Seeger, established his myth. The New York Times called him the "Shakespeare of the 20th century". Bob Dylan, whose real name is Robert Allen Zimmerman, was born in the village of Duluth (Minnesota) and grew up in the nearby mining town of Hibbing, achieved an impact like no other protagonist of pop culture before or after him. His lyrics liberated rock music from its banality. "It wasn't until I'd listened to Dylan intensely that I paid scrupulous attention to lyrics, to statements," even John Lennon confessed.

Bob Dylan is considered "the conscience of his time, which he shaped with archetypal song ciphers" (Time) and for which he received his first Grammy in 1980. In 1993 he accepted an honorary Grammy for his life's work, was inducted into the legendary "Hall of Fame", was awarded an honorary doctorate and directed cinematic sideshows. Dylan's tours "are hailed as if Jesus and Marx were singing together or the Beatles had been resurrected," Newsweek judged. Hardly a major musician who didn't pay tribute to him in some form.

His first LP consisted mostly of outside material, a reminiscence of his idol Woody Guthrie. Original compositions, mainly political messages, are the content of subsequent records as the Vietnam War and student unrest peaked in the mid-60s. At the Newport Folk Festival in 1965, Bob Dylan finally caused an éclat when he amplified his guitar electrically, thus founding folk rock. His poetry, pressed into records, became a bestseller. Since then, Dylan has been considered a prophet of popular culture.

His memoir, "Dylan's Chronicles - Volume 1," was a worldwide bestseller and ranked on "The New York Times" bestseller list for 19 weeks. He was awarded a Pulitzer Special Prize for his "profound significance to popular music and American culture."

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