Robert Neale Lind was born on November 25,1942 and is an American playwright, novelist, and singer-songwriter who helped define the 1960s folk rock movement in the US and UK.
16 Facts About Bob Lind
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Bob Lind is well known for his transatlantic hit record, "Elusive Butterfly", which reached number 5 on both the US and UK charts in 1966.
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Many musicians have recorded songs by Bob Lind, who continues to write, record and perform.
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Bob Lind's parents divorced when he was five, and his mother remarried; his stepfather was in the Air Force, and the family travelled for some years before settling in Denver, Colorado.
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Bob Lind became interested in folk music while a student at Western State College in Gunnison, Colorado, and abandoned his studies to become a musician.
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In 1965, Bob Lind signed a recording contract with Liberty Records' subsidiary, World Pacific Records, and on that label he recorded "Elusive Butterfly".
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Bob Lind dropped out of the music industry for a number of years.
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Bob Lind was a friend of the writer Charles Bukowski's, who used him as a prototype for the character Dinky Summers in his 1978 novel Women and other writings.
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Bob Lind wrote five novels, an award-winning play, and a screenplay, Refuge, which won the Florida Screenwriters' Competition in 1991.
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Bob Lind has been credited as co-creator of the famous "Bat Boy" Weekly World News cover story.
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Bob Lind returned to music in 2004, when at the urging of his friend Arlo Guthrie, he played at the Guthrie Center in Becket, Massachusetts.
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That same year, RPM Records reissued the album Since There Were Circles, and Bob Lind self-released the Live at Luna Star album featuring performances of new material.
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In October 2012,41 years after the release of his last studio album, Bob Lind issued a critically acclaimed CD of new music: Finding You Again, produced by veteran rock guitarist Jamie Hoover of the Spongetones and released by Ace Records.
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In November 2013, Bob Lind was inducted into the Colorado Music Hall of Fame, along with Judy Collins, The Serendipity Singers, and Chris Daniels.
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Bob Lind was inducted into the Maryland Entertainment Hall of Fame on November 17,2019.
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On October 13,2023, Bob Lind received his first European production as a playwright when his trilogy, The Road Plays, was presented at the New English American Theatre in Stuttgart, Germany.