Clinton Heylin: 13 books
Still on the Road
The Songs of Bob Dylan Vol. 2 1974-2008
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2010
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 available in paperback - charted the rise of Bob Dylan from his first jottings to the full expression of genius in songs such as 'Hard Rain Gonna Fall'...
by Clinton Heylin
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2011
Clinton Heylin's biography No More Sad Refrains, draws on hours of interviews with Sandy's closest friends and musical collaborators, access to her diaries and unreleased work, to produce a moving portrait of a complex, driven, but fatally flawed genius, who remains the finest female singer-songwriter...
Revolution in the Air
The Songs of Bob Dylan 1957-1973
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
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 author, Clinton Heylin charts the development and first moments of genius of this unique artist whose songs changed the world.
From his first...
Dylan. Gospel.
Die rauen Töne der wahren Geschichte
Language: German
Release Date: October 5, 2018
Bob Dylan war das Sprachrohr ganzer Generationen. - schlicht ein Genie. Doch als er 1979 zum Glauben an Jesus Christus kam und hintereinander drei phänomenale christliche Platten veröffentlichte, wandten sich viele Fans, Musikkritiker, Künstler und Journalisten von ihm ab. Erstmals zeigt nun der...
E Street Shuffle
The Glory Days of Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2013
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 man, which is why millions of people have jammed stadiums and arenas to see The Boss play countless shows with his incredible E Street Band....
Springsteen Song by Song
A Critical Look (A Penguin Special from Viking)
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2012
Acclaimed music writer Clinton Heylin's revelatory biography E Street Shuffle charts the rise of Bruce Springsteen and his legendary E Street Band in intimate detail, from their blue-collar New Jersey roots to the heights of rock stardom. Now, in Springsteen Song by Song, Heylin culls studio data,...
by Clinton Heylin
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2010
An absorbing account of the record industry's worst nightmare.
In the summer of 1969, Great White Wonder, a collection of unreleased Bob Dylan recordings appeared in Los Angeles. It was the first rock bootleg and it spawned an entire industry dedicated to making unofficial recordings available...
Trouble In Mind
Bob Dylan's Gospel Years - What Really Happened
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
"*Trouble in Mind*, documents the tours and recording sessions with an obsessive detail that, at the very least, encourages the reader to come at it all afresh. . . . his interrogation of what it was all for is, to fans like me, highly illuminating." —*NewStatesman*
Between 1979 and 1981,...
From the Velvets to the Voidoids
The Birth of American Punk Rock
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2005
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 wave" in the early 1980s. With a cast that includes Patti Smith, Pere Ubu, Television, Blondie, the Ramones, the MC5, the Stooges, Talking Heads,...
Revolution in the Air
The Songs of Bob Dylan, 19571973
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
By far the most comprehensive book on Dylan’s words ever written, including a number of songs that no one has ever heard, this first volume will fundamentally change how these lyrics are interpreted and understood. Arranged in a surprising chronology of when they were actually written rather than...
All Yesterdays' Parties
The Velvet Underground in Print, 1966-1971
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2009
The Velvet Underground, among the most influential bands of all time, are credited with creating a streetwise, pre-punk sensibility that has become inseparable from the popular image of downtown New York. "Discovered" by Andy Warhol in 1966, the VU - with their original line-up of Lou Reed,...
Still on the Road
The Songs of Bob Dylan, 1974–2006
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
The second of two volumes, this companion to every song that Bob Dylan has yet written is the most comprehensive examination of Dylan’s oeuvre. Arranged in a chronology of when they were written rather than when they appeared on albums, the songs are accompanied by surprising facts and information....
All the Madmen
Barrett, Bowie, Drake, the Floyd, The Kinks, The Who and the Journey to the Dark Side of English Rock
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2012
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 to an end. All the Mad Men tells the story of six stars that travelled to edge of sanity in the years following the summer of love: Pete Townshend,...