{"id":30055,"date":"2024-08-02T18:02:27","date_gmt":"2024-08-02T18:02:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-august-2-1962-robert-allen-zimmerman-legally-changes-his-name-to-bob-dylan\/"},"modified":"2024-08-02T18:02:27","modified_gmt":"2024-08-02T18:02:27","slug":"on-this-day-august-2-1962-robert-allen-zimmerman-legally-changes-his-name-to-bob-dylan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-august-2-1962-robert-allen-zimmerman-legally-changes-his-name-to-bob-dylan\/","title":{"rendered":"On This Day, August 2, 1962: Robert Allen Zimmerman legally changes his name to Bob Dylan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-08-02\/ABCAudio_ThisDayInHistory_v03_ag.jpg\" alt><\/figure>\n<p>On This Day, August 2, 1962&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">A 21-year-old\u00a0<strong>Robert Allen Zimmerman\u00a0<\/strong>legally changed his name to\u00a0<strong>Bob Dylan<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">In his book\u00a0<\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Chronicles<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">, Dylan explained that he was inspired to change his name after he saw an article about jazz performer\u00a0<strong>David Allyn\u00a0<\/strong>and later some poems by\u00a0<strong>Dylan Thomas<\/strong>. He considered the names Robert Allyn and Robert Dylan, before finally deciding on Bob Dylan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Of course, Dylan went on to have massive success and is considered one of the greatest songwriters of all time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">He was inducted into the Rock &amp; Roll Hall of Fame in 1988, the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1982, and received the Kennedy Center Honors in 1997 and the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2012. He was also awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2016.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Dylan&#8217;s music career in the early &#8217;60s\u00a0is about to be explored in a new movie, <\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">A Complete Unknown<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">, starring\u00a0<strong>Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet\u00a0<\/strong>as the legendary rocker. It is expected to hit theaters in December.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On This Day, August 2, 1962&#8230; A 21-year-old\u00a0Robert Allen Zimmerman\u00a0legally changed his name to\u00a0Bob Dylan. In his book\u00a0Chronicles, Dylan explained that he was inspired to change his name after he saw an article about jazz performer\u00a0David Allyn\u00a0and later some poems by\u00a0Dylan Thomas. He considered the names Robert Allyn and Robert<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-august-2-1962-robert-allen-zimmerman-legally-changes-his-name-to-bob-dylan\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,43,4],"tags":[7,134,317,114,315,316,142,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30055"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30055\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}