Behind biography bob dylan shades

This is my original review of the first edition of Behind the Shades, which is the best Dylan bio by far.

Behind biography bob dylan shades

Bob dylan sunglasses

Bob Dylan: Behind the Shades Revisited - Barnes & Noble

Behind biography bob dylan shades3

Bob Dylan : behind the shades : a biography : Heylin, Clinton ...

Clinton Heylin updated it in 2001 and has now done so again, in 2011. The new version is almost twice as big as this original edition, so this book is now OBSOLETE. Please get the new edition!! it's huge!!

***


By the time this bio was published Clinton Heylin had probably offended every hard-core Dylan fan in both hemispheres with his disgraceful sneering heavyhanded blatantly rude putdowns of any comment or theory which didn't agree completely with his own perfectly worked-out interpretations based on the most thorough possible research.

Bob dylan sunglasses

Clinton thought that all Dylan scholars were amateurs and idiots. There was no pleasing him at all, since anyone who did publish articles agreeing with him on this or that aspect of Dylan's life and work was immediately accused of plagiarism.

He was so trigger-happy from the 70s onwards I