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Discuss and answer the questions:

1. What was Bob Dylan's real name? Would you consider

changing your name? Which name would you choose?
2. Do you know any other Bob Dylan songs? What is your favorite?
3. Bob Dylan won the Nobel prize for literature. Do you think a
songwriter is a
"real" writer and deserves the award?
4. What would you do if you had power to bring peace to the
world? What's the answer blowin' in the wind?

The Times

Come senators, congressmen

They Are A Changin

-Bob Dylan
grown

For he that gets hurt

Will be he who has stalled

mothers

There's a battle outside ragin'.

It'll soon

writers understand
curse

Don't stand in the

Don't block up the hall

doorway

shake swimmin

Please heed the call

your windows

And rattle your walls

wheel

For the times they are a-changin'.

fadin loser bone wide

Come

command

and fathers

Throughout the land

And don't criticize
Come gather 'round people

What you can't

Wherever you roam

Your sons and your daughters

And admit that the waters

Are beyond your

Around you have

Your old road is

And accept it that soon

You'll be drenched to the
If your time to you

Rapidly agin'.
.

Please get out of the new one

If you can't lend your hand

Is worth savin'

For the times they are a-changin'.

Then you better start

Or you'll sink like a stone
For the times they are a-changin'.

The line it is drawn

The

Come

and critics

it is cast

The slow one now

Who prophesize with your pen

Will later be fast

And keep your eyes

As the present now

The chance won't come again

Will later be past

And don't speak too soon

The order is

For the

Rapidly

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And there's no tellin' who

And the first one now

That it's namin'.

Will later be last

For the

now

Will be later to win

For the times they are a-changin'.

For the times they are a-changin'.

Biobibliographical notes
Bob Dylan was born on May 24, 1941 in Duluth, Minnesota. He grew up in a Jewish middleclass family in the city of Hibbing. As a teenager he played in various bands and with time his
interest in music deepened, with a particular passion for American folk music and blues. One of
his idols was the folk singer Woody Guthrie. He was also influenced by the early authors of the
Beat Generation, as well as by modernist poets.
Dylan moved to New York City in 1961 and began to perform in clubs and cafs in
Greenwich Village. He met the record producer John Hammond with whom he signed a contract
for his debut album, Bob Dylan (1962). In the following years he recorded a number of albums
which have had a tremendous impact on popular music: Bringing It All Back Home and Highway
61 Revisited in 1965, Blonde On Blonde in 1966 and Blood On The Tracks in 1975. His
productivity continued in the following decades, resulting in masterpieces like Oh Mercy (1989),
Time Out Of Mind (1997) and Modern Times (2006).
Dylans tours in 1965 and 1966 attracted a lot of attention. For a period he was accompanied
by film maker D. A. Pennebaker, who documented life around the stage in what would come to
be the movie Dont Look Back (1967). Dylan has recorded a large number of albums revolving
around topics such as: the social conditions of man, religion, politics and love. The lyrics have
continuously been published in new editions, under the title Lyrics. As an artist, he is strikingly
versatile; he has been active as painter, actor and scriptwriter.
Besides his large production of albums, Dylan has published experimental work like
Tarantula (1971) and the collection Writings and Drawings (1973). He has written an
autobiography, Chronicles (2004), which depicts memories from the early years in New York
and which provides glimpses of his life at the center of popular culture. Since the late 1980s, Bob
Dylan has toured persistently, an undertaking called the Never-Ending Tour. Dylan has the
status of an icon. His influence on contemporary music is profound, and he is the object of a
steady stream of secondary literature.

The Life and Times of Bob Dylan

Comprehension Questions:

1. What is Bob Dylan's real name?

2. Dylan belonged to which generation?
3. What religion did he grow up in?
4. Where did he first start to perform?
5. What was his debut album called?
6. Bob Dylan was a "prolific" songwriter so he was very
7. What is the name of his famous documentary?
8. What topics were many of his songs about?
9. What other things did he do besides singing/songwriting?
10. His influence on contemporary music is
11. Who was his idol growing up?
Writing:
Write about the life of a famous person you admire and why you think they should
receive a Nobel Prize one day.