The mammoth book of Bob Dylan - The fullest ever anthology of writing about rock's greatest poet

Sean Egan

Robinson

2011

518 páginas

17h 16m

ISBN-10: 1849014663

Bob Dylan's impact on popular music has been incalculable. Having transformed staid folk into a vehicle for coruscating social commentary, he then swept away the romantic platitudes of rock'n'roll with his searing intellect.

From the zeitgeist-encapsulating protest of 'Blowin' in the Wind' to the streetwise venoim of 'Like a Rolling Stone', and from the stunning mid-sixties trilogy of albums - "Bringing it All Back Home", "Highway 61 Revisited" and "Blonde on Blonde" - to "Time Out of Mind", his astonishing it world-weary comeback at the age of 56, Dylan's genius has endured, underpinned by the dazzling turn of phrase that has made him the pre-eminent poet of popular music.

Beacuse Dylan's achievements have no equal, his career is the most chronicled in rock hustory. Here, Sean Egan presents a selection of the best writing on Dylan, both praise and criticism. Interviews, essays, features and reviews from Dylan intimates and scholars such as John Bauldie, Michael Gray, Nat Hetoff and Jules Siegel are interspersed with new narrative and reviews of every single algum to create a comprehensive picture of the artist whose chimes of freedom still resound.