Biopics are notorious for playing loose with facts. We understand, it’s poetic license, a desire by a filmmaker to add more drama to a not-compelling-enough real-life story. But we newspaper journalists are truth seekers.

Bob Dylan is one of the most studied figures in pop culture history, but why did the folk legend change his name before breaking big?

In 1961, 19-year-old Robert Allen Zimmerman dropped out of college in his native Minnesota, made a pilgrimage to New York City to meet his folk music idol Woody Guthrie, and decided to become, in his own words,

W ith more albums than most of us can count, Bob Dylan is probably the real king of great music. From folk to rock and everything in between, Dylan’s music has defined (and rede