Bücher von Clinton Heylin

'The definitive, scrupulously researched biography of a life steeped in mystery' ObserverThe definitive biography of one contemporary culture's most iconic and mysterious figures - musical revolutionary, Nobel Prize-winner, chart-topping recording artistIn 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.With fresh and revealing information on every page A Restless, Hungry Feeling tells the story of Dylan's meteoric rise to fame: his arrival in early 1961 in New York, where he is embraced by the folk scene; his elevation to spokesman of a generation whose protest songs provide the soundtrack for the burgeoning Civil Rights movement; his alleged betrayal when he 'goes electric' at Newport in 1965; his subsequent controversial world tour with a rock 'n' roll band; and the recording of his three undisputed electric masterpieces: Bringing it All Back Home, Highway 61 Revisited and Blonde on Blonde. At the peak of his fame in July 1966 he reportedly crashes his motorbike in Woodstock, upstate New York, and disappears from public view. When he re-emerges, he looks different, his voice sounds different, his songs are different. That other story will be told in Volume 2, to be published in autumn 2022.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.

In Bootleg: The Secret History of the Other Recording Industry, Clinton Heylin examines the entire modern history of this underground culture: from what defines a bootleg and its complex and protean legal status, to a full history of bootlegs' production and distribution, to what's contained on some of the most notorious bootlegs and how to find them. Along with many illustrations of the creative packages, this is the whole story of the $250 million industry that sustains itself on the great figures of rock music and their biggest admirers.

Clinton Heylin has devoted his career to Bob Dylan's work and presents here a comprehensive study of all of Dylan's recording sessions.

Bob Dylan war das Sprachrohr ganzer Generationen. - schlicht ein Genie. Doch als er 1979 zum Glauben an Jesus Christus kam und hintereinander drei phänomenale christliche Platten veröffentlichte, wandten sich viele Fans, Musikkritiker, Künstler und Journalisten von ihm ab. Erstmals zeigt nun der weltweit bekannteste und anerkannteste Dylan-Chronist Clinton Heylin, was in jenen Jahren tatsächlich geschah. Er beschreibt, was dieser bekehrte Dylan als Christus-Nachfolger erlebte und durchmachte und wie er mit den Anfeindungen umging. Heylin interviewte Mitmusiker, Studiobosse, Freunde, Pastoren und Zeitgenossen: Er weist nach, wie ernst es Dylan meinte - und wie tief seine Texte waren, wie gut seine Musik. Dieses Buch ist ein Meilenstein. Die Zeitschrift "Rolling Stone" krönte es zum "Buch des Jahres". Zu Recht.

Tragic story of Britain's finest ever female singer-songwriter.