{"id":2446276,"date":"2019-07-12T10:00:07","date_gmt":"2019-07-12T16:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=858270"},"modified":"2019-07-12T10:00:07","modified_gmt":"2019-07-12T16:00:07","slug":"bob-dylan-super-fan-purchases-singers-childhood-home-in-hibbing-minnesota","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/bob-dylan-super-fan-purchases-singers-childhood-home-in-hibbing-minnesota\/","title":{"rendered":"Bob Dylan Super-Fan Purchases Singer\u2019s Childhood Home in Hibbing, Minnesota"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/bobdylanhouse.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/bob-dylan\/\" id=\"auto-tag_bob-dylan\" data-tag=\"bob-dylan\">Bob Dylan<\/a> super-fan Bill Pagel has purchased the ultimate rock collectible: the Hibbing, Minnesota house where Dylan lived from 1948 to 1959. According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/a-longtime-superfan-purchases-bob-dylan-s-childhood-home-in-hibbing\/512605792\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\"><em>Minneapolis Star Tribune<\/em><\/a>, he bought the 1,600 square foot home from Gregg and Donna French, who have lived there since 1990. It was valued at $84,000 by Zillow.<\/p>\n<p>Pagel plans on restoring the home to its appearance during Dylan\u2019s childhood in the 1950s. \u201cI\u2019m trying to locate another collector who purchased many pieces of the original furniture, including Bob Dylan\u2019s bedroom set, from the Hibbing home in 1988,\u201d Pagel said in a statement. \u201cI would appreciate hearing from anyone who may have a lead in locating this person.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pagel, a pharmacist in his late seventies, has run the Bob Dylan essential fan website <a href=\"http:\/\/boblinks.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">boblinks.com<\/a> since 1995. Among many other things, it houses Bob Dylan\u2019s setlist from every night of the Never Ending Tour. They often go up minutes after a show ends, regardless of where they take place around the globe, making it an invaluable resource for Dylan fans.<\/p>\n<p>His Dylan fandom goes back well over 50 years. \u201cI first became aware of Bob Dylan in the fall of 1961 while in college at the University of Wisconsin in Madison,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/artfulliving.com\/bob-dylan-memorabilia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Pagel told <em>Artful Living<\/em> in 2017.<\/a> \u201cSome of my friends were from New York City and had seen him perform \u2014 this was before his first album came out. One of them showed me a <em>New York Times<\/em> article written by Robert Shelton giving Bob a very favorable review after seeing him perform at Gerdes Folk City in Greenwich Village. Several months later, I purchased his first album when it was released in early 1962.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In 2001, he purchased Dylan\u2019s first childhood home \u2013\u2013 a duplex in Duluth Minnesota \u2013\u2013 for $82,000 on Ebay. It was the centerpiece of his Dylan collection, at least until his recent purchase of the Hibbing home. He hopes to turn both homes into Dylan museums.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/bob-dylan-superfan-hibbing-minnesota-858270\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bob Dylan super-fan Bill Pagel has purchased the ultimate rock collectible: the Hibbing, Minnesota house where Dylan lived from 1948 to 1959. According to the Minneapolis Star Tribune, he bought the 1,600 square foot home from Gregg and Donna French, who have lived there since 1990. It was valued at $84,000 by Zillow. Pagel plans [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2446276","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-24 11:23:47","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2446276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2446276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2446276\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2446276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2446276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2446276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}