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The data-spew about Bob Dylan never ends

In his latest volume of biography, Clinton Heylin spares us no details about Dylan’s misogyny and cranky obsessions during his almighty midlife crisis

4 November 2023

9:00 AM

4 November 2023

9:00 AM

The Double Life of Bob Dylan, Volume II: 1966-2021: Far Away From Myself Clinton Heylin

Bodley Head, pp.848, 35

When it comes to Bob Dylan, Clinton Heylin is The Man Who Knows Too Much. Since publishing his first biography, 1991’s Behind the Shades, he has become the world’s most committed Dylanologist, doggedly untwining the facts from the artist’s self-serving fictions. When he describes Dylan’s wildly unreliable 2004 memoir Chronicles: Volume One as ‘all a put-on… all a lie’, he has the receipts.

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