14 October,2016 11:24 AM IST | | mid-day online correspondent
American singer songwriter Bob Dylan has won the 2016 Nobel Prize for literature. Here are few fun facts about the artist influential in popular music and culture for more than five decades
Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan
Born as Robert Allen Zimmerman, he renamed himself Bob Dylan reportedly after the Welsh poet Dylan Thomas
'Mr Tambourine Man,' one of Bob Dylan's famous numbers, was a literary character created by the musician after a drummer he knew from the clubs of New York's Greenwich Village.
In 2004, Dylan earned an honorary doctorate in music from the University of St. Andrews
Bob Dylan stayed out of the public eye after a motorcycle accident in July 1966. Few details about injury suffered during the crash were revealed, his biographers have written that the crash offered Dylan the chance to escape the pressures around him.
His first wife, Sara Lownds, worked as a Playboy bunny.
Legendary American singer, songwriter, poet, artist and actor, Bob Dylan performs at the 22nd annual Bluesfest music festival near Byron Bay on April 25, 2011. Photo: AFP
In 1978, Bob Dylan went on a year-long world tour, performing over 100 shows in Asia, Europe and the US, to a total audience of two million
In the late 1970s, Bob Dylan became a born again Christian and released two albums of religious-based music
Bob Dylan did not talk to anyone for a week after Elvis Presley died on August 16, 1977
