Clinton Heylin is an English

England

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 author who has written extensively about popular music

Popular music

Popular music belongs to any of a number of musical genres "having wide appeal" and is typically distributed to large audiences through the music industry. It stands in contrast to both art music and traditional music, which are typically disseminated academically or orally to smaller, local...

 and the work of Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan is an American singer-songwriter, musician, poet, film director and painter. He has been a major and profoundly influential figure in popular music and culture for five decades. Much of his most celebrated work dates from the 1960s when he was an informal chronicler and a seemingly...

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Education

Heylin attended Manchester Grammar School

Manchester Grammar School

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. He read History at Bedford College, University of London, followed by getting an M.A. in History at the University of Sussex

University of Sussex

The University of Sussex is an English public research university situated next to the East Sussex village of Falmer, within the city of Brighton and Hove. The University received its Royal Charter in August 1961....

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Work

Heylin has written extensively on the life and work of Bob Dylan, combining interviews with discographical research. He has published a full-length biography Dylan: Behind the Shades (1991) which was republished in a revised second edition: Bob Dylan: Behind The Shades - Take Two (UK edition, 2000), Bob Dylan: Behind The Shades Revisited (US edition, 2001). Heylin has published a detailed analysis of every song by Dylan in two volumes: Revolution In The Air: The Songs of Bob Dylan: Vol. 1: 1957-73 (2009), and Still On The Road: The Songs of Bob Dylan: Vol. 2: 1974-2008 (2010).

In 2011, to mark Dylan's 70th birthday, Heylin published Behind the Shades: The 20th Anniversary Edition, which contained 60,000 words of new material to cover Dylan's work since 2000.

He has also written detailed biographies on Van Morrison

Van Morrison

Van Morrison, OBE is a Northern Irish singer-songwriter and musician. His live performances at their best are regarded as transcendental and inspired; while some of his recordings, such as the studio albums Astral Weeks and Moondance, and the live album It's Too Late to Stop Now, are widely...

 and Sandy Denny

Sandy Denny

Sandy Denny , born Alexandra Elene Maclean Denny, was an English singer and songwriter, perhaps best known as the lead singer for the folk rock band Fairport Convention...

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Heylin has also published favorably reviewed studies of Orson Welles

Orson Welles

George Orson Welles , best known as Orson Welles, was an American film director, actor, theatre director, screenwriter, and producer, who worked extensively in film, theatre, television and radio...

, Despite The System: Orson Welles versus The Hollywood Studios, and Shakespeare's sonnets

Shakespeare's sonnets

Shakespeare's sonnets are 154 poems in sonnet form written by William Shakespeare, dealing with themes such as the passage of time, love, beauty and mortality. All but two of the poems were first published in a 1609 quarto entitled SHAKE-SPEARES SONNETS.: Never before imprinted. Sonnets 138 and 144...

, So Long As Men Can Breathe.

Selected works

• Behind the Shades: The 20th Anniversary Edition. Faber and Faber. 2011. ISBN 978-0571272402
• Still On The Road: The Songs of Bob Dylan: Vol. 2: 1974-2008. Constable, UK. 2010. ISBN 978-1849015981
• So Long As Men Can Breathe: The Untold Story of Shakespeare’s Sonnets. Perseus, US, 2009. ISBN 978-0306818059
• Revolution In The Air: The Songs of Bob Dylan vol. 1 (1957-73). Constable-Robinson, UK; Acappella, US, 2009. ISBN 978-1849012966
• The Act You’ve Known For All These Years: A Year In The Life of Sgt Pepper & Friends. Canongate-Grove, US/UK, 2007. ISBN 978-1841959559
• Babylon’s Burning: From Punk to Grunge. Penguin/ Canongate-Grove, US/UK, 2007. ISBN 9780670916061
• From The Velvets To The Voidoids: The Birth of American Punk. Helter Skelter, UK; Chicago Review Press, US, 2005. ISBN 9781556525759
• All Yesterdays’ Parties: The Velvet Underground in Print 1966-71. Da Capo Press, 2005. ISBN 9780306814778
• Despite The System: Orson Welles versus The Hollywood Studios. Canongate, UK; Chicago Press Review, US, 2005. ISBN 1841956856
• Can You Feel The Silence? - Van Morrison: A New Biography. Viking-Penguin, UK; Chicago Review Press, US, 2004. ISBN 978-1556525421
• Bootleg - The Rise & Fall of the Secret Recording Industry. Omnibus Press, 2004. ISBN 978-1844491513
• No More Sad Refrains: The Life & Times of Sandy Denny. Helter Skelter, 2001. ISBN 1900924110
• Bob Dylan: Behind The Shades Revisited. Harper-Collins, US, 2001. ISBN 006052569X
• Bob Dylan: Behind The Shades - Take Two. Penguin-Viking, UK, 2000. ISBN 0140281460
• Dylan’s Daemon Lover: The Story of a 450-Year Old Pop Ballad. Helter Skelter, 1998. ISBN 978-1900924153
• Dylan Day By Day: A Life In Stolen Moments. Music Sales/Schirmer, 1996. ISBN 978-0711956698
• Bob Dylan: The Recording Sessions 1960-94. Penguin. UK; St Martin’s Press, US, 1995. ISBN 0312134398
• Dylan Behind the Shades. Penguin, UK; Simon & Schuster, US, 1991. ISBN 0140154132

External links

• The official Clinton Heylin website