In the early 1960s, when I reached my teenage years, Bob Dylan (aka Robert Zimmerman) was the leader of the protest movement music scene. Dylan’s real gifts were as a poet and songwriter. He spoke to the younger generation about problems that he saw in society. The 1960s were a turbulent time (Vietnam and Civil Rights) and it was ripe for the protest movement. Dylan fit right in and became the inspiration for many other artists. One of Dylan’s most popular songs was titled "The Times are a-Changing,” about a new generation of Americans wielding their influence on the future.
As Dylan began his song, “Come gather around people, wherever you roam, and admit that the waters around you have grown and accept it that soon you’ll be drenched to the bone if your time to you is worth saving; and you better start swimming or you’ll sink like a stone, for the times are a-changing.”