80 years old Bob Dylan, the party starts in Minnesota

(ANSA) - NEW YORK, MAY 24 - Bob Dylan turns 80 on May 24 and the global party starts from Minnesota: in Duluth, where on May 24, 1941 at St. Mary's Hospital the former Robert Allen Zimmermann gave his first cries, local artists took starts a festival that also includes a party in the house where the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2016 spent his first childhood. Dylan lived in Duluth for only six years before moving with his family to Hibbing, where the festivities continued with the county proclaiming a full year of events dedicated to the musician-poet and placing the first stone of a monument in his honor. Adding to the approximately 100 university courses in "dylanology" and the thousands of books written about him, new podcasts today celebrated the figure and the art ofauthor of iconic songs such as "Mr. TambourineMan" and "Blowing in the Wind", including a BBC series, "ItAin't Me You're looking For: Bob Dylan at 80", and in Italy on Radio Rai a program that has run through all the networks of the group. From New York, where Dylan moved in 1961 to sing in the smoky rooms of the Village and where the Fordham University radio broadcast 80 songs in the space of 24 hours, we move on to Tivoli not far from Woodstock where Bob lived in the sixties and where two weekends of music were hosted by Patti Smith. Finally, Tulsa, Oklahoma, where the archives purchased five years ago by oil billionaire George Kaiser will finally be accessible next year. Elusive as ever,the birthday boy dodged the limelight even if a few days ago, surprisingly, he was spotted and photographed for the first time in a decade while he was running errands in Santa Monica. Blue shirt and black pants, motorcycle boots and aviator sunglasses, Dylan got out of a modest Toyota pickup. (HANDLE).