
Bob Dylan: behind the shades : a biography
Music biography, Music
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Summary
In a biography based largely on interviews, Heylin looks at the singer-songwriter's first fifty years, and examines the relationship between Dylan's life and his work. Heylin recounts Dylan's Minnesota childhood, as Robert Allen Zimmerman, his New York years writing "protest"… songs, his 1966 motorcycle accident, his conversion to Christianity, and his use of changing musical styles