'The definitive scrupulously researched biography of a life steeped in mystery' Observer The
definitive biography of one contemporary culture's most iconic and mysterious figures - musical
revolutionary Nobel Prize-winner chart-topping recording artist In 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.
