Bob Dylan at 80 – a little Minnesota town celebrates its famous son

Hibbing, the birthplace of the musician, is paying tribute with a year of special events

Bob Dylan's debut 1962 single began: I got mixed-up confusion; man, it's a-killin' me". It hasn't yet - he turns 80 on Monday, and the pre-eminent custodian of American roots music, with its storytelling and protest traditions, is set to be celebrated by a public avalanche of events, programmes and tributes.

The occasion will be marked in his birthplace of Hibbing, Minnesota - where, inspired by the sounds of country and blues music drifting up from the south on AM radio, he wrote in his high-school yearbook that his ambition was to join Little Richard. St Louis county, in which Hibbing sits, has issued a proclamation declaring a Year of Dylan Celebration".