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

Bob Dylan stands out with Elvis Presley and The Beatles in a triumvirate of popular-music artists of unparalleled achievements, influence and public fascination. He changed popular music in the 1960s, and helped define that decade with songs 'Blowin' in the Wind' and 'Like a Rolling Stone'. Yet he resisted those who attempted to define him. An aratist of indomitable energy and single-mindedness, he went on to create new work - on albums such as BLOOD ON THE TRACKS and TIME OUT OF MIND - which rivals his past glory.

He has outlasted all his contemporaries, selling more than 56 million records over forty years. In 2001, the year of his sixtieth birthday, Bob Dylan is as relevant to a young audience as to those who grew up with his music.

DOWN THE HIGHWAY celebrates the grandeur of Dylan's artistic achievement and reveals the complete life story of the reclusive, mercurial and eccentric man who has been an enigma for so long. This major new biography is based on a mountain of research conducted over three years, including interviews with more than 250 people in Dylan's life - lovers, friends, relatives, former employees and music stars. Many interviewees are key people who have not spoken before. Author Howard Sounes has also had access to previously unseen documentary evidence. In this magnificent and authoritative account he takes the reader to the heart of Dylan's life and work.

'Many writers have tried to probe [Dylan's] life, but never has it been done so well, and so captivatingly'
Steve Morse The Boston Globe

'Magnificently realised'
Charles Shaar Murray Mojo

'[Dylan] has always ensured his life is obscured in mystery [but] Howard Sounes's new biography, Down the Highway, blows away more fog than anyone else has managed to do'
Barney Hoskyns Independent on Sunday

'Valuable for its sober telling of this extraordinary tale'
Bryan Appleyard The Sunday Times

'The benchmark by which all future Dylan biographies will be judged'
Nigel Williamson Uncut

'Engaginly written and scrupulously researched'
Neil Spencer Observer

'This is a fine book that contributes significantly 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 the more serious Dylanophiles it also provides much that is new, valuable and true'
Ross Fortune Time Out

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