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. This is the second
instalment of the definitive biography (following A Restless Hungry Feeling) of one
contemporary culture's most iconic and mysterious figures - musical revolutionary Nobel
Prize-winner chart-topping recording artist. 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.
