Bob Dylan
No Direction Home
Robert Shelton author Elizabeth Thomson editor
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Gemini Books Group Ltd
Published:5th Sep '24
Should be back in stock very soon
This hardback is available in another edition too:
- Hardback£30.00(9781786750907)
Robert Shelton met Bob Dylan when the young singer arrived in New York in 1961. He became Dylan's friend, champion, and critic. His book, first published in 1986, was hailed as the definitive unauthorized biography of this moody, passionate genius. Shelton tells the intimate and first-hand story of Bob Dylan's formative years in Greenwich Village NYC, and it is the only biography that has been written with his active cooperation.
Dylan gave Shelton access to his parents, Abe and Beatty Zimmerman - whom no other journalist has ever interviewed; to his brother, David; to childhood friends from Hibbing; to fellow students and friends from Minneapolis; and to Suze Rotolo, the muse immortalized on the cover of Freewheelin', among others. Concluding Dylan's story backstage during his triumphant 1978 world tour, No Direction Home took 20 years to complete and when it was finally published the book received widespread critical acclaim.
Following his Nobel Prize for Literature Award in 2016, Dylan's standing is higher than at any time since the 1960s and Shelton's book is now seen as a classic. This new illustrated edition includes key images of Dylan throughout his incredible, enduring career, making it a must for all Dylan fans.
After all of these years, it still remains the definitive Dylan biography. With its subject's consent and access to a wide range of authentic sources coupled to the writer's keen eye for detail, No Direction Home transports the reader right back into those artistically febrile times. -- God Is In The TV
Shelton's book is such an essential read amongst the crowded market of Dylan biographies... As a Dylan primer, it's in a class of its own... Simply put this is a lavishly illustrated book. -- Americana UK
No journalist has covered Dylan's career longer or with more respect than Robert Shelton. * New York Times *
The most accurate description of the development of Bob's musical and poetic evolution, his innovative genius and perplexity... it is impossible to deny Shelton a legacy as an authority on popular music and an emeritus on Bob Dylan. -- xsnoize
A landmark account of Dylan's genesis and ascension. -- David Fricke * MOJO *
I don't believe Bob Dylan ever covered a Hawkwind song - though I can imagine him doing a mean version of "Masters of the Universe", with added nasal howl - but he was, of course, one of the kings of the underground, and the Sixties counterculture, and what with it being his 80th birthday any minute, there's a tranche of books coming out, not to bury but to praise. Biggest, and the best in terms of its design and illustrations and closeness of its author to its subject, is Liz Thomson's fine editing job on the classic Robert Shelton bio, No Direction Home, here published as a coffee table slab packed with fantastic photos and ephemera - posters, tickets, all that. -- The Arts Desk
'This is a book which you will want to own. It oozes quality and is lavishly illustrated with more than 150 images.' * Living Tradition magazine *
ISBN: 9781786751621
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304 pages