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Bob Dylan, enigma and superstar, has intrigued millions of fans over the past five decades. His life, music, and influences have been explored through numerous mediums and the market for Dylan-related products continues to grow. Nonetheless, the oral records of his career-his interviews-have been unavailable until now. Gathered here are the most revealing and personal of Dylan's interviews. As a group they show a brilliant, adored, and eclectic musician, unsettled and angered by the fame and reverence surrounding him. In one interview with Time magazine he denigrates his newfound celebrity status, belligerently attacking the interviewer, pushing him nearly to tears. In a later Rolling Stone interview Dylan announces that the archangel Gabriel has visited him, and that he is a born again Christian. Collected from small publications and zines like Positively Tie Dream, Trouser Press, and New Music Express as well as mainstream outlets as disparate as Seventeen, Playboy, Spin, and the New York Times, Dylan's interviews illuminate his journey from ornery folksinger to acclaimed Grammy-winner. Included are interviews by Pete Seeger, Nora Ephron, Susan Edmiston, Studs Terkel, Jon Pareles, Nat Hentoff, Kurt Loder, Steve Allen, Ron Rosenbaum, Bono, Jonathon Cott, Jann Wenner, Robert Shelton, and many others.
Younger Than That Now: The Collected Interviews with Bob Dylan FROM THE PUBLISHER
Is anybody better known than Bob Dylan? The interviews collected here are really only a mouthful from the banquet. But like his songs, immediately recognizable as those of no one else, Dylan's speech is suffused with his poetry. The many milestones of Dylan's story are here: the early Woody Guthrie-inspired "finger-pointing songs," the electric paroxysm at Newport and the cry of "Judas" at the Royal Albert Hall; the life-saving motorcycle accident; the Rolling Thunder carnival; the Christian and Jewish reformations and counter-reformations; the Rainy Day Women. Of greater interest may be Dylan's curiosity, his generosity toward other songwriters and always surprising judgments, and his devotion to his muse - an incorruptibility unforeseen even at the height of his popularity - leavened by his verbal energy and midwestern humor.
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