Bob Dylan (born Robert Allen Zimmerman on May 24, 1941 in Duluth, Minnesota, United States) is an American musician,
poet and artist whose position in popular culture is unique. Although Dylan started his musical odyssey in 1959, much of Dylan's best known work is from the 1960s, when he became an informal documentarian and reluctant figurehead of American unrest. Some of his songs, such as "
Blowin' In The Wind" and "
The Times They Are A-Changin'", became anthems of the anti-war and civil rights movements.