Bob Dylan

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The full, fascinating story of the life and work of Bob Dylan is revealed as never before in Down the Highway, a compelling new book that will surely be seen as the definitive biography of this American music legend.

Since his emergence in the folk revival of the early 1960s, with songs such as "Blowin' in the Wind," Dylan has been the outstanding singer-songwriter of modern times, an artist whose music has captured the zeitgest and the imagination of millions. Dylan remains a powerful creative force, beloved by those who grew up with his music and admired by younger generations as a matchless musical innovator.

Yet despite nearly forty years of fame, and the attendant scrutiny of the media, Dylan has remained a remarkably enigmatic figure whose life is clouded with secrecy: from his fabled 1966 motorcycle accident to how many times he has been married and how many children he has fathered. In Down the Highway, acclaimed biographer Howard Sounes sweeps away myth and rumor, offering major new insights into every aspect of Dylan's life - including his music and the recording sessions behind it, his labyrinthine love life, his family life, and his business affairs - painting the first complete and accurate portrait of this elusive and mercurial star.

Over a period of three years, Sounes interviewed more than 250 key people in Dylan's life - including fellow musicians, lovers, and family members - and gained access to previously unseen documentary materials. From this mass of exclusive information he has constructed an engagingly fast-paced, comprehensive, and revelatory biography, taking the reader on a journey from Dylan's childhood in a Minnesota mining town to his life in the present day. It is an extraordinary story, crisply told, revealing much and at the same time offering appreciation of Dylan's significance in American music. Everybody who has ever owned a Dylan album will be enthralled.