You may call him Bobby, or you may call him Zimmy. And as of today, you may call him Boston’s Dr. Dylan.

For the first time since 1970, Bob Dylan has accepted an honorary doctorate from an American University: Boston’s Berklee College of Music.

“Thank you, Berklee College of Music, for bestowing on me this prestigious honor. What a pleasant surprise,” Dylan, 84, stated in a Berklee press release.

“Who knows what path my career might have taken if I’d been fortunate enough to learn from some of the great musicians who taught at Berklee. It’s something to think about.”

Arguably, his acceptance is more of an honor for Berklee.

“This is an incredible moment for this institution,” Berklee President Jim Lucchese stated in the release. “He’s an artist who has never stopped evolving … That’s

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