I’ll do it with you.” Bob Dylan to Robert Shelton
The only reason that I am here with you now is that I know that you are the man. I want you to write an honest book, Bob, I don’t want you to write a bullshit book. “I can’t be hurt, man, if the book is honest. Dylan gave Sheldon access to his parents, Abe and Beatty Zimmerman – whom no other journalist has ever interviewed in depth his brother, David childhood friends from Hibbing fellow students and friends from Minneapolis and Suze Rotolo, the muse immortalised on the cover of The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan.Īdorned with rare and revealing images from throughout Dylan’s whirlwind first decade of music, this a unique and honest insight into a man, who, as his sixth decade of music approaches, is ever harder to separate from the myths he has woven.
He was in the Newport crowd when Dylan alienated the folk fraternity with his electric guitar. He was in the audience for the celebrated Philharmonic Hall concert on Halloween 1964. Shelton witnessed Dylan’s crowning moment at Newport in 1963. Of more than a thousand books published about Bob Dylan, i t is the only one that has been written with Dylan's active cooperation. Robert Shelton met Bob Dylan when the young singer arrived in New York he became Dylan's friend, champion, and critic, and his book has been hailed as the definitive unauthorised biography of this moody, passionate genius and his world. No Direction Home took 20 years to complete and has received widespread critical acclaim.
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