Bücher von Clinton Heylin

The second volume of Clinton Heylin's magisterial biography takes us from Dylan's creative peak in the 1960s to the present day. We meet a man who is determined to confound expectations; yet whatever he does only seems to confirm his iconic status to fans and critics alike.It's a time of peaks and troughs. There are long periods of writer's block followed by sudden bursts of creativity that produce some of the best work of his career. There is the chaotic recording process, with Dylan often including on his albums the worst takes and leaving off the best songs altogether. There is the Neverending Tour, during which he reinvents his songbook on a nightly basis, often without recognition. But then there are the albums and songs that reveal the genius of an artist whose lyrics draw on centuries of American culture but who refuses to be shackled to his own past.Today his voice is almost unrecognisable from his 1960s peak, and the man whose songs had been devoted to dissecting his romantic relationships has become focused on mortality, solitude and getting old. Yet his fans have grown old with him and his albums continue to top the charts, 2020's Rough And Rowdy Ways making Dylan the oldest No. 1-bestselling artist.There simply is no other living artist whose creative output has remained constantly intriguing, often baffling, sometimes infuriating but always fascinating for over 60 years. Clinton Heylin's definitive, scrupulously researched and revelatory life, based on unique access to new sources, paints the fullest and brightest portrait yet of an iconic figure that has defined contemporary culture.

'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.