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Robert dropped out of college and move to New York where is idol, the lengendary folk singer Woody Guthrie was hospitallized with a rare hereditary disease of the nervous system.
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The 1963 release of The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan marked Dylan's emergence as one of the most original and poetic voices in the history of American popular music.
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In 1965, Dylan scandalized many of his folkie fans by recording the half-acoustic, half-electric album Bringing It All Back Home, backed by a nine-piece band.
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On July 25, 1965, he was famously booed at the Newport Folk Festival when he performed electrically for the first time.
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In 1974, Dylan began his first full-scale tour since his accident, embarking on a sold-out nationwide tour with his longtime backup band, the Band. An album he recorded with the Band, Planet Waves, became his first No. 1 album ever.
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In 1989, when Dylan was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
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Dylan's 1997 album Time Out of Mind re-established this one-time folk icon as one of the preeminent of rock's wise men, winning three Grammy Awards.
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Bob is continuing touring and is 74 years old
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Beginning in the 1980s, Dylan began touring full time, sometimes with fellow legends Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers and the Grateful Dead. Notable albums during this period included Infidels (1983); the five-disc retrospective Biograph (1985); Knocked Out Loaded (1986); and Oh Mercy (1989), which became his best-received album in years.
