The definitive biography of one contemporary culture's most iconic and mysterious figures - musical revolutionary, Nobel Prize-winner, chart-topping recording artist
Described by the New York Times as 'the only the Dylanologist worth reading', Clinton Heylin is the author of the acclaimed Bob Dylan- Behind the Shades (1991; revised 2001) and over two dozen other books on music and popular culture, including biographies of Sandy Denny, Van Morrison and Orson Welles, and the two classic studies of punk's origins, From The Velvets to The Voidoids and Anarchy in the Year Zero. An ex-pupil of Manchester Grammar School, and with two degrees in History, he has been a full-time historian and critic for over three decades. He lives in Somerset.
Whether you've read one book on Bob Dylan or one hundred, THIS is
the one you want to read and refer to from this day forward. If the
basic story of the Bard from Hibbing is oft told, familiar to
anyone that's been paying attention, this new work leaps a couple
light years forward with much newly revealed material and deep
scholarship. If somebody's got to tell the tale, we can all thank
our holy electric pickups and mystical typewriter keys that it was
up to Clinton Heylin
*Lee Ranaldo, Sonic Youth*
Gripping...you feel that Heylin understands what he [Dylan] was
going through... a forensic analysis of Dylan's early life that,
for depth of research alone, is hugely impressive
*The Times, *Book of the Week**
Clinton Heylin is the eminence grise of Bob Dylan scholars
*The Spectator*
Heylin has long been Dylan's most accomplished biographer
*Observer*
Painstakingly detailed...informative and well organised
*Financial Times*
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