Rock Source Music Facts Day by Day


May 24 1941	Robert Allen Zimmerman, the son of furniture store owner Abe Zimmerman, is born in Duluth, Minnesota. The boy will grow up to become Bob Dylan. (1941)
May 24 1954	Robert Zimmerman, one day to become Bob Dylan, has his bar-mitzvah, at the Androy Hotel, Hibbing, Minnesota, with 400 guests. (1954)
May 24 1961	Bob Dylan is recorded while performing Woody Guthrie songs in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. The recording will, in due course, surface as a bootleg entitled The Minnesota Party Tape. (1961)
May 24 1962	Roy Orbison is among the guests attending Bob Dylan?s 21st birthday party in Greenwich Village, New York City, USA. (1962)
May 24 1966	On his 25th birthday, Bob Dylan plays at the Olympia, Paris, France, where the electric set is performed in front of a huge Stars And Stripes. Backstage, he meets with French pop idols Francoise Hardy and Johnny Hallyday. (1966)
May 24 1971	Bob Dylan spends his 30th birthday visiting the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem, Israel. (1971)
May 24 1972	Songwriter Lou Majaw holds a Bob Dylan birthday celebration in Shillong, Meghalaya, India. It will become an annual event, extensively covered on national and international television. (1972)
May 24 1981	During sessions for the album Shot Of Love, Bob Dylan is in Clover Studios, Los Angeles, working on mixes of the songs Shot Of Love and Heart Of Mine. (1981)
May 24 1984	Bob Dylan rehearses for his upcoming European tour at the Beverly Theatre, Los Angeles, California. The tour will be a double-header with Carlos Santana. (1984)
May 24 1999	A four-day long Bob Dylan Festival comes to an end at Burg Plankenstein castle in Lower Austria. Artists appearing include Luigi Catuogno, Who Cares, The Plankenstein Allstars, Peter Del Bello. The CD The Plankenstein Tapes is recorded during the event. (1999)
May 24 2007	To celebrate his 66th birthday, a 1.8 mile path called Bob Dylan Way is opened in Duluth, Minnesota, USA, marked by signs showing Bob Dylan with a guitar and microphone stand. (2007)
May 24 2008	Bob Dylan plays the second of two nights at The Mile One Centre, St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada. On the other side of the world, the annual celebration of Bob Dylan's birthday is held at the All Saints Hall in Shillong, Meghalaya, India. The 37-year-old event features perfomances of Dylan songs by founder Lou Majaw and several others. (2008)
May 24 2011	Ralph McTell releases a six-track mini-album, Don't Think Twice It's Alright - A Tribute To Bob Dylan On His 70th Birthday. (2011)