Bob Dylan, n.Trivia

Bob Dylan's first professional recording was as a harmonica player for Harry Belafonte

Bob Dylan was a chess fanatic and legend has it that his manager paid Bobby Fisher to play a game with the music icon.

Bob Dylan claimed he was an orphan to circumvent the need for his parents' signature when signing with Columbia Records at age 20

Bob Dylan's father, Abe Zimmerman, was a semi-professional baseball player

Bob Dylan has never had a #1 single outside of The Byrds' cover of "Mr. Tambourine Man".

Bob Dylan's family owned movie theaters in Hibbing, Minn. so he grew up watching movies there.

Bob Dylan apparently introduced the Beatles to cannabis. He rolled a joint and passed it to Ringo, who was said to have not realized he was supposed to pass the joint and smoked the whole joint to himself

Bob Dylan was detained in 2012 on suspicion of being homeless when spotted wandering around a residential neighborhood in New Jersey during a rain storm.

Bob Dylan's first wife was a Playboy bunny. She worked at a Playboy club in New York.

Bob Dylan's other stage names include Elston Gunn, Tedham Porterhous, Blind Boy Grunt, Robert Milkwood Thomas, Boo Wilbury, Sergei Petrov and Jack Frost

Bob Dylan has a bumper sticker that reads 'World's Greatest Grandpa'.

Bob Dylan was a stage name borrowed from the poet, Dylan Thomas. His real name is Robert Zimmerman.