In 1991 Clinton Heylin published what was considered the most definitive biography of Bob Dylan available. In
2001 he completely revised and reworked this hugely acclaimed book, adding new sections, substantially reworking
text, and bringing the story up-to-date with Dylan's explosive career in 2000.
Bob Dylan: Behind the Shades Revisited follows the story of Dylan from his humble beginnings in Minnesota to his
arrival in New York in 1961, his subsequent rise in the folk pantheon of Greenwich Village in the early '60s, and
his cataclysmic folk-rock metamorphosis at the Newport Folk Festival in 1965. In the succeeding eighteen months,
Dylan released Highway 61 Revisited and Blonde on Blonde, and embarked on the legendary 1966 World Tour that culminated
with an unforgettable concert at the Royal Albert Hall. Heylin details it all, along with the true story of Dylan's
motorcycle accident, his remarkable reemergence in the mid-'70s, the only exacting account of his controversial
conversion to born-again Christianity, the Neverending Tour, and yet another incredible Dylan resurgence with his
1997 Grammy Album of the Year Award-winning Time Out of Mind.
Deemed by The New Yorker as "the most readable and reliable" of all Dylan biographies, this book will
give fans what they have always wanted -- a chance to get to know the man behind the shades.