The importance of Bob Dylan to the history of popular music is incalculable. He transformed folk music from anodyne crooning into a vehicle for coruscating contemporary social protest. Within a couple of years he had transformed rock 'n' roll, too, bringing the intellectualism of folk lyrics to a genre still dominated by moon-in-June romantic convention. The phenomenal commercial success of his 1965 epic, gritty and streetwise single "Like a Rolling Stone" together with the dazzling lyrical technique of "Highway 61 Revisited" established him forever as the poet laureate of rock 'n' roll. Egan presents a selection of the best writing on Dylan drawn from across the decades, interspersed with new narrative, record reviews, essays and interviews.
- ISBN13 9781849017633
- Publish Date 20 November 2005
- Publish Status Withdrawn
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Little, Brown Book Group
- Imprint Robinson Publishing
- Format eBook
- Language English