The Dylan Companion

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Just in time for Bob Dylan's 60th birthday in May 2001-a multifaceted look at the man, his music, and his influence. "To this day, wherever great rock music is being made, there is the shadow of Bob Dylan," said Bruce Springsteen at the induction of Dylan into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1988. Or to quote John Rockwell, "Anyone who didn't live through the sixties simply cannot realize how important his albums seemed then; they defined a community." Dylan is a musical, literary, political, and religious icon whose lyrics and mystique have spawned countless articles and books. The Dylan Companion is a generous helping of the best, most pungent, and most insightful commentary on Dylan from all phases of his career right up to the present: personal recollections and professional assessments from the likes of Ken Kesey, Greil Marcus, Joan Baez, Andrew Motion, Lester Bangs, Kurt Loder, Allen Ginsberg, Pauline Kael, Geoff Dyer, Simon Winchester, and Robert Christgauover fifty pieces celebrating the sixty-year-old performer who somehow manages to stay forever young.

ELIZABETH THOMSON and DAVID GUTMAN edited The Bowie Companion and The Lennon Companion. Thompson is also the editor of Conclusions on the Wall: New Essays on Bob Dylan; Gutman is the author of an illustrated biography, Prokofiev, and is an editorial consultant for Gramophone Magazine. Thomson and Gutman have both contributed to The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (second edition). They live in London.