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A Restless, Hungry Feeling, 1941-1966
From the world's leading authority on Bob Dylan comes the definitive biography that promises to transform our understanding of the man and musicianโ...
An absorbing account of the record industry's worst nightmare. In the summer of 1969, Great White Wonder, a collection of unreleased Bob Dylan recordi...
Behind the Shades : Take Two
This new edition of Behind the Shades has been completely rewritten and substantially enlarged to take account not only of the last decade, but of ten...
In May 2001 Bob Dylan will be sixty years old. Ten years ago, Clinton Heylin published his groundbreaking biography of the man. Behind the Shades, whi...
From Punk to Grunge
Featuring bands such as the Ramones and Nirvana, this history of punk and grunge details the seminal bands of each movement, as well as looking at the...
From Forest Hills to the Free Trade Hall: A Historical View of Dylan's Big Boo
"We never did capture that sound on stage-the Blonde On Blonde sound; we never did capture the Highway 61 sound on stage. What we did on stage was som...
Behind the Shades
In virtually all areas of Dylan's life - Heylin is able to provide a fascinating picture of a man who, over thirty years, has changed the course of po...
A Life in Stolen Moments : Day by Day, 1941-1995
Bob Dylan's entire career is explored....
The Recording Sessions, 1960-1994
Clinton Heylin has devoted his career to Bob Dylan's work and presents here a comprehensive study of all of Dylan's recording sessions....
The Glory Days of Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band
The celebrated popular music scholar presents an intimate portrait of The Boss and his legendary band Bruce Springsteen fans know that the band makes ...
The Songs of Bob Dylan 1957-1973
Bob Dylan has always regarded himself as a songwriter: 'I am my words,' he wrote in 1964. Distilling a lifetime's passion and study, leading Dylan aut...
The first full accounting of the year Bob Dylan went electric and toured the world facing scorn and furious backlash. In 1966 Bob Dylan and The Hawks ...
The Songs of Bob Dylan
In 'Revolution In The Air', Clinton Heylin recounts the story of each Bob Dylan song as it is written, giving a full appreciation of the songs themsel...
Between 1979 and 1981, Dylan produced and released three of his most controversial albums--Slow Train Coming, Saved, and Shot of Love--toured the worl...
The Songs of Bob Dylan Vol. 2 1974-2008
This is the second volume in Clinton Heylin's magisterial survey of the songs of Bob Dylan. The first volume - Revolution in the Air which is now avai...
A Restless Hungry Feeling: 1941-1966
'The definitive, scrupulously researched biography of a life steeped in mystery' Observer The definitive biography of one contemporary culture's most ...
The Life, and Afterlife, of Sgt. Pepper
Heylin reconstructs the life and times of Sgt. Pepper. Weaving the activities of the Beatles in with those of their contemporaries and rivals, he reve...
Van Morrison, a New Biography
This is a definitive biography of a troubled musical genius who continues to make popular, important music....
The Velvet Underground in Print, 1966-1971
The Velvet Underground, among the most influential bands of all time, are credited with creating a streetwise, pre-punk sensibility that has become in...
Behind the Shades : a Biography
Chronicles the life and thirty-year music career of Bob Dylan, from his early protest songs through his near-fatal motorcycle accident, his divorce, a...
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The 20th Anniversary Edition
In virtually all areas of Dylan's life - his immigrant antecedents, his business dealings, his various addictions and his romantic attachments - Heyli...
A Critical Look (A Penguin Special from Viking)
Acclaimed music writer Clinton Heylin's revelatory biography E Street Shuffle charts the rise of Bruce Springsteen and his legendary E Street Band in ...
The Birth of American Punk Rock
Exhaustively researched and packed with unique insights, this history journeys from the punk scene's roots in the mid-1960s to the arrival of "new wav...
Stolen Moments
A chronology of Bob Dylan's career is explored 1940-1987....
The Songs of Bob Dylan, 1974-2006
From the Dust Jacket: The second of two volumes, this companion to every song that Bob Dylan ever wrote is the most comprehensive book on the words of...
Orson Welles Versus the Hollywood Studios
Revealing the facts rather than the myths behind Orson Welles's Hollywood career, this groundbreaking history fills in the gaps behind the drama of on...
Barrett, Bowie, Drake, the Floyd, The Kinks, The Who and the Journey to the Dark Side of English Rock
By the end of 1968 The Beatles were far too busy squabbling with each other, while The Stones had simply stopped making music; English Rock was coming...
The Life and Times of Sandy Denny
Clinton Heylin's biography No More Sad Refrains, draws on hours of interviews with Sandy's closest friends and musical collaborators, access to her di...
Behind Closed Doors : the Recording Sessions (1960-1994)
A Year in the Life of Sgt. Pepper & Friends
The Untold Story of Shakespeare's Sonnets
In this lively, fascinating account of the publication of Shakespeare's Sonnets, noted biographer Clinton Heylin brings their convoluted history to li...
Rise/fall
Song publishing is the one constant in the carousel of recorded music now spanning the past century, and has been the way that song-credits and publis...