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Robert Allen Zimmerman was born on May 24, 1941, in Duluth. He's better known, of course, as Bob Dylan, the man who changed popular music with his words, voice and vision. In honor of Dylan's diamond jubilee birthday on Tuesday, we offer our Bob 75 -- 25 things to know about Dylan, 25 Dylan songs you should hear and 25 Dylan landmarks to visit in Minnesota.25 things to know about Bob Dylan1. He lived his first six years in Duluth, next 12 years in Hibbing, and a year or two in Minneapolis before launching his career in New York City. 2. In Hibbing, Bobby Zimmerman listened to R&B, country and rock on late-night radio stations from the South. In his high school yearbook, he proclaimed that he wanted to join Little Richard's band. 3. The turning point in Dylan's career was a New York Times review by Robert Shelton in September 1961. It led to his contract with Columbia Records. 4. After recording his versions of blues and folk songs on his debut album, the 21-year-old Dylan showcased his own songwriting on his second one, 1963's "The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan" -- including "Blowin' in the Wind" and "Masters of War." 5. Although he had a reputation in folk circles, it took artists covering his songs -- Peter, Paul & Mary's "Blowin' in the Wind" and the Byrds' "Mr. Tambourine Man" -- to introduce Dylan to pop audiences. 6. Dylan delivered a 1-2 punch in July 1965, releasing the revolutionary single "Like a Rolling Stone" and then going electric at the Newport Folk Festival, setting off a controversy that's still debated today. 7. His mid-1960s trilogy of "Bringing It All Back Home," "Highway 61 Revisited" and "Blonde on Blonde" ranks as one of the most revered back-to-back-to-back outputs in rock history. 8. After recording exclusively in New York, Dylan headed to Nashville to make four disparate albums -- the rocking "Blonde on Blonde," the gentler "John Wesley Harding," the country-ish "Nashville Skyline" and the curveball covers album "Self Portrait." 9. On July 29, 1966, Dylan reportedly crashed his motorcycle near his home in Woodstock, N.Y., and he disappeared -- partly to recover and partly to get away from the burdens of superstardom. He did not appear...