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  • Published: 30 September 2011
  • ISBN: 9781446464755
  • Imprint: Transworld Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 624

Down The Highway

The Life Of Bob Dylan




For Bob Dylan's 80th birthday, a revised and updated edition of Howard Sounes' classic biography of the rock legend.

'Engagingly written and scrupulously researched' Observer
An UPDATED EDITION of Howard Sounes' classic, definitive biography to mark the legendary Bob Dylan's 80th birthday
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Bob Dylan was the first figure in the history of popular music to challenge the domination of the three-minute pop song and to bring serious ideas and poetry into the song lyric. A true revolutionary, he was also the first pop performer to adopt the attitudes and lead the life of a bohemian artist. In doing so he not only defined the direction which popular music would take in the second half of the twentieth century, he also defined the lifestyle which would come to be associated with the rock artist.

This new edition of Howard Sounes' critically-acclaimed classic biography of Dylan includes a new chapter that brings the legend's life story right up to date. It gives the complete picture of the man, the artist and performer. Meticulously researched and including hundreds of interviews with Dylan's closest associates, the brand new chapter also covers the last ten years of Dylan's life, and the last (and previously unpublished) interview with Dylan's first serious girlfriend.

Written by the acclaimed biographer of Paul McCartney and Lou Reed, this is a compelling, fast-paced and revelatory read, which takes the reader on a journey from Dylan's childhood in a Minnesota mining town to the status he enjoys today as one of the most iconic figures of contemporary culture.

  • Published: 30 September 2011
  • ISBN: 9781446464755
  • Imprint: Transworld Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 624

About the author

Howard Sounes

Howard Sounes is known for writing detailed and revelatory biographies of a wide range of extraordinary personalities, including the murderers Fred and Rosemary West (Fred & Rose), the American Charles Bukowski (Locked in the Arms of a Crazy Life), and the musicians Bob Dylan (Down the Highway) and Paul McCartney (Fab). Each book is based on extensive original research. For more information visit www.howardsounes.com

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Praise for Down The Highway

Engagingly written and scrupulously researched.

Observer

The benchmark by which all future Dylan biographies will be judged.

USA Today

Many writers have tried to probe [Dylan's] life, but never has it been done so well, and so captivatingly.

Boston Globe

Blows away more of the fog than anyone else has managed to do.

Barney Hoskyns, Independent on Sunday

Sets a standard few rock'n'roll chronicles have attained.

Independent

Valuable for its sober telling of this extraordinary tale.

Bryan Appleyard, Sunday Times

A fine book that contributes signifiantly to a further understanding of the man, his music, mythology and legend. For newcomers and non-believers, it offers a perfect, contextualised overview of, and introduction to, Dylan. For more serious Dylanophiles it also provides much that is new, valuable and true.

Time Out

Dylan comes alive...Sounes has added a wealth of new information to Dylan studies.

New York Times Book Review

[Sounes] has a historian's gift for recreating the spirit of a time.

Grey Gowrie, Spectator