Dorian Lynskey

The data-spew about Bob Dylan never ends

In his latest volume of biography, Clinton Heylin spares us no details about Dylan’s misogyny and cranky obsessions during his almighty midlife crisis

Bob Dylan performing in Atlanta, Georgia, December 1976. [Getty Images]

  • The Double Life of Bob Dylan, Volume II: 1966-2021: Far Away From Myself

    Clinton Heylin

    Bodley Head, pp. 848, £35

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