How Bob Dylan reinvented the rock memoir

Decades after revolutionising the music world, his Chronicles did a very similar service for pop autobiographiesIn looking at Bob Dylan's contribution to the field of literature, let's do the old boy a birthday kindness and discretely pass over the hubristic folly that was Tarantula, and instead focus on his triumphant 2004 memoir, Chronicles Volume One. So successful was Chronicles that it's possible to argue that through it, Dylan once again exerted his preternatural influence over a whole sle...

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