Bob Dylan

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Summary: VALUABLE RESOURCE
Review: Although there are some dubious sources for this work, overall it gives a fascinating insight into the development of the Bob Dylan persona. I wish that someone would write such book following up to the present day. The reader needs to bear in mind that Dylan thought a lot of this book untrue!

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Summary: Tony's Bob
Review: This is a real gem of a book, no one can call themselves a Dylan fan without a copy of this on their shelves.This book contains countless interviews with friends,peers and lovers but most importantly it also contains many interviews with Bob Dylan himself- these interviews were conducted by Scaduto.While reading the book you may find extra little bits added to stories that Dylan told Scaduto about.Dylan talks at length about his childhood, his influences, the 60s, and even a little bit about his family!I loved this book and so did Bob Dylan 'I rather enjoyed it, it was very straight and some of it was exactly the way it was'. The only short coming of this book as that it does not reach the present day, the book was published at the dawn of the 70s in the Dylan era.

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Summary: Tony's Bob
Review: With all due respect to the Village Voice's Toby Thompson, Tony Scaduto got there firstest with the mostest in the Dylan bio sweepstakes. Shelton, Spitz and Heylin built on this foundation. Ms. Ponsonby's claim regarding Dylan's disagreements is belied by his having cooperated at the time. Certainly Scaduto's interpretations are problematic, as are those of his sources; but his information remains undisturbed by his successors in interest. Not to cast it as a substitute for the wilder vintage interviews, no other Dylan book conveys the authentic flavor of the period with anything like Scaduto's journalistic integrity. Still indispensable.

Rating:
Summary: mostest with the firstest
Review: With all due respect to the Village Voice's Toby Thompson, Tony Scaduto got there firstest with the mostest in the Dylan bio sweepstakes. Shelton, Spitz and Heylin built on this foundation. Ms. Ponsonby's claim regarding Dylan's disagreements is belied by his having cooperated at the time. Certainly Scaduto's interpretations are problematic, as are those of his sources; but his information remains undisturbed by his successors in interest. Not to cast it as a substitute for the wilder vintage interviews, no other Dylan book conveys the authentic flavor of the period with anything like Scaduto's journalistic integrity. Still indispensable.