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Robert shelton bob dylan6/12/2023 ![]() The backstory to the book’s creation has been told many times before. ![]() ![]() It is still the only biography that has been written with his active cooperation. There have been hundreds upon hundreds of books written about Bob Dylan through the ages but to this day No Direction Home, with its title taken from a line in his song ‘Like A Rolling Stone’, remains unique. To commemorate the occasion, No Direction Home – first published in 1986 – has been revised, edited and abridged by Elizabeth Thomson (who knew Robert Shelton as a mentor and friend for the last 15 years of his life) and comes to us here in illustrated form complete with more than 150 colour images. A picture of insouciant cool, he was 23 years of age at the time and about to release Bringing It All Back Home, Highway 61 Revisited and Blonde on Blonde in a 15 month period, three epochal albums that would change the complexion of popular music irrevocably and forever.īob Dylan has long since firmly established himself as a modern cultural icon and is now, almost unbelievably, only a few weeks shy of his 80 th birthday. ![]() Captured on the cover of this new edition of Robert Shelton’s book No Direction Home, Bob Dylan stares into the middle distance from behind an impenetrable pair of Ray-Ban Wayfarer sunglasses and under a shock of electrified black curls, taking one final drag on his Marlboro cigarette. ![]()
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