| | '''Bob Dylan''' (born '''Robert Allen Zimmerman''') (b. May 24, 1941) is considered the greatest songwriter ever,<ref>https://www.rollingstone.com/interactive/lists-100-greatest-songwriters/#bob-dylan</ref> and as a singer is known for his nasal vocals and harmonica playing. He was influential in the 1960's [[counter-culture]],<ref>http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc19789/m1/</ref> and continues to perform in his tours at age 84 in 2025. He is by far the most-cited songwriter in American judicial opinions, as in his lyric "You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows."<ref>from "Subterranean Homesick Blues", on ''Bringing it All Back Home'' (Columbia 1965), this lyric is cited by courts as a guide when an expert is not required in litigation. ''See, e.g.'', ''Ball v. Posey'', 176 Cal. App. 3d 1209, 1215, 222 Cal. Rptr. 746, 749 (1986). At the [[U.S. Supreme Court]] level, Justice [[Antonin Scalia]] once copied a line of Bob Dylan's lyrics without attributing credit to him.</ref> | | '''Bob Dylan''' (born '''Robert Allen Zimmerman''') (b. May 24, 1941) is considered the greatest songwriter ever,<ref>https://www.rollingstone.com/interactive/lists-100-greatest-songwriters/#bob-dylan</ref> and as a singer is known for his nasal vocals and harmonica playing. He was influential in the 1960's [[counter-culture]],<ref>http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc19789/m1/</ref> and continues to perform in his tours at age 84 in 2025. He is by far the most-cited songwriter in American judicial opinions, as in his lyric "You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows."<ref>from "Subterranean Homesick Blues", on ''Bringing it All Back Home'' (Columbia 1965), this lyric is cited by courts as a guide when an expert is not required in litigation. ''See, e.g.'', ''Ball v. Posey'', 176 Cal. App. 3d 1209, 1215, 222 Cal. Rptr. 746, 749 (1986). At the [[U.S. Supreme Court]] level, Justice [[Antonin Scalia]] once copied a line of Bob Dylan's lyrics without attributing credit to him.</ref> |
| − | Dylan, a convert to [[Christianity]], has affected music and culture for five decades. He won the [[Nobel Prize]] in literature in 2016, and ''Rolling Stones'' greatest songwriter poll by a landslide.<ref>https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/rolling-stone-readers-pick-the-top-10-songwriters-of-all-time-11059/10-elton-john-bernie-taupin-14838/</ref> | + | Dylan, a convert to [[Christianity]], has affected music and culture for six decades. He won the [[Nobel Prize]] in literature in 2016, and ''Rolling Stones'' greatest songwriter poll by a landslide.<ref>https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/rolling-stone-readers-pick-the-top-10-songwriters-of-all-time-11059/10-elton-john-bernie-taupin-14838/</ref> |