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THE DOUBLE LIFE OF BOB DYLAN VOLUME 2 1966-2021...

The second volume of Clinton Heylin's magisterial biography takes us from Dylan's 1966
motorcycle accident 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.  There are peaks and troughs. Long periods of writer's block are followed by sudden
bursts of creativity that produce some of the best work of his career  including perhaps his
most celebrated album  1975's Blood On The Tracks . There is the unpredictable recording
process  with Dylan often including on his albums the worst takes and leaving off the best
songs altogether. On the Neverending Tour he reinvents his songbook on a nightly basis  at
times without recognition. 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 albums continue to top the charts  2020's Rough And Rowdy
Ways being his fourth No. 1 album of the twenty-first century.  There is no other living artist
whose creative output has remained constantly intriguing  often baffling  sometimes infuriating
but always fascinating for over sixty years. Clinton Heylin's definitive  scrupulously
researched and revelatory life  based on unprecedented access to the official Tulsa archive and
other new sources  paints the fullest and brightest portrait yet of an iconic figure that has
defined contemporary culture.

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