In 1991 Clinton Heylin published what was considered the most definitive
biography of Bob Dylan available. In 2001 he completely revised and
reworked this hugely acclaimed book, adding new sections, substantially
reworking text, and bringing the story up-to-date with Dylan's explosive
career in 2000.
Bob Dylan: Behind the Shades Revisited follows the story of Dylan from
his humble beginnings in Minnesota to his arrival in New York in 1961,
his subsequent rise in the folk pantheon of Greenwich Village in the
early '60s, and his cataclysmic folk-rock metamorphosis at the Newport
Folk Festival in 1965. In the succeeding eighteen months, Dylan released
Highway 61 Revisited and Blonde on Blonde, and embarked on the
legendary 1966 World Tour that culminated with an unforgettable concert
at the Royal Albert Hall. Heylin details it all, along with the true
story of Dylan's motorcycle accident, his remarkable reemergence in the
mid-'70s, the only exacting account of his controversial conversion to
born-again Christianity, the Neverending Tour, and yet another
incredible Dylan resurgence with his 1997 Grammy Album of the Year
Award-winning Time Out of Mind.
Deemed by The New Yorker as "the most readable and reliable" of all
Dylan biographies, this book will give fans what they have always wanted
-- a chance to get to know the man behind the shades.
