"Highway 61 Revisited" resonates because of its enduring emotional appeal. Few songwriters before Dylan or since have combined so effectively the intensely personal with the spectacularly universal. In "Like a Rolling Stone", his gleeful excoriation of Miss Lonely (Edie Sedgwick? Joan Baez? A compos[...]
"The Bob Dylan Encyclopedia" is one of the most wide-ranging, informed, entertaining, provocative, and compulsively readable books ever written about popular music. It's the culmination of over thirty years of dedicated research and scholarship by Michael Gray.Bob Dylan's outreach is too wide, too d[...]
Bob Dylan's outreach is too wide, too deep and too long for any book about him to cover it all. He'll be 65 years old when this book is published. His career spans 45 years of American history, and that history has intersected with his prolific songwriting, recording, touring, acting, filmmaking, TV[...]
For those who love or have collected early Bob Dylan bootleg albums, an archive of never before published photographs of the young Dylan, when he first moved to New York City in the early 1960s. It was in late 1961, photographer Ted Russell recalls, that he first heard about an up-and-coming young [...]
Robert Shelton met Bob Dylan when the young singer arrived in New York. He became Dylan's friend, champion, and critic. His book, first published in 1986, was hailed as the definitive unauthorised biography of this moody, passionate genius and his world. Of more than a thousand books published about[...]
Ranging from his first trips to London in the early 1960s right up to the 2006 Katrina concert and the publicity surrounding the release of the acclaimed "Modern Times", this collection of images is an extraordinary record of Bob Dylan's evolving public persona. As changeable as his music, some 200 [...]
Bob Dylan: The Complete Bob Dylan Discogrpahy contains all you will ever need to know about Bob Dylan and his releases. Including an expansive biography, album reviews and comprehensive discography, it is an invaluable guide for Dylan fans everywhere.This is an essential purchase for all lovers of B[...]
Bob Dylan was recently named by Life as one of the 100 most important Americans of the 20th century. In this photographic tour of Dylan?s breakthrough years, 1964 to 1965, Daniel Kramer shows the human side of this legendary figure ? playing chess, making coffee, and in one whimsical moment, sitting[...]
In Revisited, Scott F. Parker roams the geographic and artistic terrain of one of America s most distinctive and authentic personas. His idiosyncratic notes from these travels invite the reader into a personal yet accessible series of dreams that become illuminating signposts for navigating the inte[...]
Bob Dylan turns 70 in May 2011. The man himself may pay it little heed - 'age don't carry weight', he sings in a recent song - but a lot of other people will mark the occasion. One place that's sure to see some parties is New York City, where 50 winters ago a scruffy kid called Bobby Zimmerman blew [...]
This is a definitive book on the politics of Bob Dylan. It comprehensively investigates Dylan's relationship to the social, political, and religious cultures that acted upon him and to which he reacted. Generally associated with the New Left politics of the 1960s, Dylan's political world view transc[...]
Britain played a key role in Bob Dylan's career in the 1960s. He visited Britain on several occasions and performed across the country both as an acoustic folk singer and as an electric-rock musician. His tours of Britain in the mid-1960s feature heavily in documentary films such as D.A. Pennebaker'[...]
August 2014 marks 50 years since Bob Dylan released his fourth album, "Another Side of Bob Dylan." Recorded in one night, in the middle of a turbulent year in his life, the album marked a departure from Dylan's socially-conscious folk songs and began his evolution toward other directions.
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During the years they spent together, few people outside of Dylan's immediate family were closer than Victor Maymudes, his tour manager, personal friend, and travelling companion from the early days in 1960s Greenwich Village through the late 90's. Another Side of Bob Dylan recounts landmark event[...]
A "Los Angeles Times" Best seller August 2014 marks 50 years since Bob Dylan released his fourth album, "Another Side of Bob Dylan." Recorded in one night, in the middle of a turbulent year in his life, the music marked a departure from Dylan's socially-conscious folk songs and began his evolution t[...]
From the filming of Madhouse on Castle Street in late 1962 to the premiere of I'm Not There in the fall of 2007, Bob Dylan's big- and small-screen career has been laced with images that complement the music and lyrics he shared with the world for a concurrent 45 years. Nothing To Turn Off is a stud[...]
Bob Dylan, besides being a famous American singer, musician, artist, is a very good writer. He has influenced the popular music scene for about five decades. It is highly admirable that the lyrics written by Dylan have very skillfully incorporated different types of social, philosophical, political,[...]
The only book on Bob Dylan to have been welcomed and very positively reviewed by Bob Dylan via his personal attorney Mr Jeff Rosen. A definitive journey into the mind, memory and music of the world's longest serving living recording artist. A must read for 'all real Dylan fans' - Bob Dylan.[...]
This work illuminates, identifies, and characterizes the influences and expressions of Bob Dylan's Political World throughout his life and career. An approach nearly as unique as the singer himself, the authors attempt to remove Dylan from the typical Left/Right paradigm and place him into a broader[...]
âThe War and Peace of Rock and Roll.â âBob Dylan
In 1975, as Bob Dylan emerged from eight years of seclusion, he dreamed of putting together a traveling music show that would trek across the country like a psychedelic carnival. The dream became reality, and On the Road with[...]
Chris O'Dell wasn't famous. She wasn't even almost famous. But she was there.
She was in the studio when the Beatles recorded "The White Album," "Abbey Road," and "Let It Be," and when Paul recorded "Hey Jude," she sang in the chorus.
She was at Ringo's kitchen table when George Harrison s[...]