Big news today in the business-of-music business from Sir Lucian Grainge, Chairman and CEO of Universal Music Group: Bob Dylan has sold his entire catalogue to UMG. The purchase price? The official answer to that one, my friend, is blowin’ in the wind. But insiders suggest Dylan’s 600 songs sold for something close to $300,000,000. And for those of you keeping score at home, that’s a half a mil of cold hard cheddar per song. And not just the greatest hits, mind you, but the stinkers too. For a guy with a Nobel Prize in Literature, are any of his songs stinkers? The answer to that one is of course “no.”
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Bonus question carries absolutely no financial reward.
What is Bob Dylan’s real name?
C’mon – THINK!
Ah… Robert?
OK Mr. Smarty-pants, yeah, Robert. But what’s his LAST name, huh? Give you a big hint… It starts with a “Z.”
Zanku
Zimmerman
Zomanski
Zippity
His real name is Bob Zimmerman. Born in Duluth MN and graduated from Hibbing MN High School Flunked out of freshman English at the University of Minnesota.
(I am probably a ringer for that question: my college roommate was from Hibbing)