Bob Dylan birthday: Celebrate with photos of his legendary career

Bob Dylan, one of essentially the most influential singers and songwriters of his technology, celebrates his 80th birthday on Monday, May 24.

Dylan has bought greater than 125 million data throughout his career, which has lasted practically 60 years, and he is nonetheless performing right now. Some of his most well-known songs embrace “The Times They Are a-Changin’,” “Like a Rolling Stone” and “Blowin’ in the Wind.”

In 2008, Dylan gained a Pulitzer Prize particular quotation for “his profound impact on popular music and American culture, marked by lyrical compositions of extraordinary poetic power.” In 2016, Dylan was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for “having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition.”

In December, Dylan sold his entire catalog of songs — greater than 600 — to the Universal Music Publishing Group. The New York Times estimated the deal to be value greater than $300 million.

“It’s no secret that the art of songwriting is the fundamental key to all great music, nor is it a secret that Bob is one of the very greatest practitioners of that art,” stated Sir Lucian Grainge, the CEO of Universal Music Group. “Brilliant and moving, inspiring and beautiful, insightful and provocative, his songs are timeless — whether they were written more than half a century ago or yesterday.”