Born in 1941, Bob Dylan is widely revered as America’s greatest living popular songwriter. Throughout of a career that has spanned over 40 years, he has acted as voice-piece and chronicler to several generations, and was one of the first to channel public feeling about racial discrimination and the Vietnam war into popular protest songs. Combining an acute awareness of the zeitgeist with absurdist humour, Dylan struck a chord with millions. In 2004, Bob Dylan published the first volume of his autobiography, Chronicles Volume 1.
Praise for Chronicles Volume 1: 'Takes its place next to On The Road !as an essential record of an American artist's manifest destiny.' Observer 'Like discovering the lost diaries of Shakespeare! Maybe the most extraordinarily intimate autobiography by a 20th-century legend.' Daily Telegraph 'There are enough bizarre and entertaining snippets of information sprinkled throughout to fascinate the most jaded Dylan obsessive.' Independent 'Entertaining and surprisingly deprecating! Chronicles Volume is tautly written, vividly cinematic, and funny'. Financial Times