The Double Life of Bob Dylan Volume 2

1966-2021: ‘Far away from Myself’

Clinton Heylin

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26 September 2024

Folk & traditional music; Rock & Pop music; Individual composers & musicians, bands & groups; Biography: arts & entertainment

The second instalment of the definitive biography of one contemporary culture's most iconic and mysterious figures - musical revolutionary, Nobel Prize-winner, chart-topping recording artist

In 2016 it was announced that Bob Dylan had sold his personal archive to the George Kaiser Foundation in Tulsa, Oklahoma, reportedly for $22 million. As the boxes started to arrive, the Foundation asked Clinton Heylin - author of the acclaimed Bob Dylan- Behind the Shades and 'perhaps the world's authority on all things Dylan' (Rolling Stone) - to assess the material they had been given. What he found in Tulsa - as well as what he gleaned from other papers he had recently been given access to by Sony and the Dylan office - so changed his understanding of the artist, especially of his creative process, that he became convinced that a whole new biography was needed. It turns out that much of what previous biographers - Dylan himself included - have said is wrong; often as not, a case of, Print the Legend.

This is the second instalment of the definitive biography (following A Restless Hungry Feeling) of one contemporary culture's most iconic and mysterious figures - musical revolutionary, Nobel Prize-winner, chart-topping recording artist.

Clinton Heylin's meticulously researched, all-encompassing and consistently revelatory account of these fascinating early years is the closest we will ever get to a definitive life of an artist who has been the lodestar of popular culture for six decades.

By: Clinton Heylin
Imprint: Vintage
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 153mm, Spine: 40mm
Weight: 700g
ISBN: 9781529923797
ISBN 10: 1529923794
Pages: 848
Publication Date: 26 September 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Described by the New York Times as 'the only 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. The first volume of this definitive biography, The Double Life of Bob Dylan, was published in 2021. An ex-pupil of Manchester Grammar School, and with two degrees in History, he has been a full-time historian and critic for three decades. He lives in Somerset.

Reviews for The Double Life of Bob Dylan Volume 2: 1966-2021: ‘Far away from Myself’

Heylin is the most dedicated and forensic Dylanologists, and this book shows it * Daily Telegraph * I can’t imagine anyone else poking, prodding and taking apart Dylan with as much forensic detail as Heylin has done here * The Times * No true Dylan fan will want to miss what is as close to a definitive biography as we're likely to get of an artist who has easy definition * Daily Mail * Remarkable… This is not just another Bob Dylan book… it’s so all-encompassing that it is probably the last word * i * For Dylan completists this monumental fact-check will be essential * New Statesman *