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From the Welsh Poet Dylan Thomas. During his Dinkytown days, Zimmerman began introducing himself as "Bob Dylan". Dylan recalled: "What I was going to do as soon as I left home was just call myself Robert Allen ... It sounded like a Scottish king and I liked it." However, in reading Down Beat magazine, he discovered there was a saxophonist named David Allyn. Dylan adds, "I'd seen some poems by Dylan Thomas. Dylan and Allyn sounded similar. Robert Dylan. Robert Allyn. The letter D came on stronger."

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