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[[File:Bob Dylan WM.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Bob Dylan]]

'''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>

== Christian Faith ==

== Christian Faith ==

In 1979, Bob Dylan surprised many by announcing he had accepted [[Jesus Christ]] as his personal savior.  Biblical references had never been missing from Dylan's lyrics.  His third album featured such lyrics as "and the first one now will later be last" as well as "and like Pharaoh's tribe they'll be drownded in the tide, and like Goliath they'll be conquered."  The album ''John Wesley Harding'' is suffused with Christian imagery, and religious conversion is implied in several songs from ''Street Legal'', the album released in 1978.   

In 1979, Bob Dylan surprised many by announcing he had accepted [[Jesus Christ]] as his personal savior.  [[Bible|Biblical]] references had never been missing from Dylan's lyrics.  His third album featured such lyrics as "and the first one now will later be last" as well as "and like Pharaoh's tribe they'll be drownded in the tide, and like Goliath they'll be conquered."  The album ''John Wesley Harding'' is suffused with Christian imagery, and religious conversion is implied in several songs from ''Street Legal'', the album released in 1978.   

It was not until 1979, however, that Dylan made his conversion official by releasing an album of [[Gospel music]], ''Slow Train Coming''.  "Gotta Serve Somebody" became a hit single, and Dylan embarked on a tour in which many of his older, secular fans booed him while he attracted a new generation of Christian fans.  His next two albums, ''Saved'' (1980) and ''Shot of Love'' (1981) were also Gospel albums.   

It was not until 1979, however, that Dylan made his conversion official by releasing an album of [[Gospel music]], ''Slow Train Coming''.  "Gotta Serve Somebody" became a hit single, and Dylan embarked on a tour in which many of his older, secular fans booed him while he attracted a new generation of Christian fans.  His next two albums, ''Saved'' (1980) and ''Shot of Love'' (1981) were also Gospel albums.