Dylan: The Life and Music of America's Folk-Rock Icon [Hardcover]

Stephen Matteo (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 120 pages
• Publisher: MetroBooks (NY); First Edition, 1st Printing edition (October 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1567996345
• ISBN-13: 978-1567996340
• Product Dimensions: 11.6 x 11.6 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,269,756 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I bought two copies!, April 2, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Dylan: The Life and Music of America's Folk-Rock Icon (Hardcover)

Stephen Matteo's Bob Dylan takes us on a wonderful adventure through time with one of the last true legends of our time. Comprehensive without getting mired down in detail, the book provides a retrospective of Dylan's career and is peppered with enough anecdotal info to give us the real flavor of having been there. Most importantly, the book is respectful in tone and content towards Dylan's life and work, both of which he has had to fight to protect from censure. Matteo's book enables us to enjoy Dylan's work and his triumphant career without the reader feeling like we're invading his privacy.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars excellent photos, but not much else is happening here..., January 27, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Dylan: The Life and Music of America's Folk-Rock Icon (Hardcover)

this book is full of great and rare photos of bob dylan in the studio, performing on stage, lounging about, and just being cool. but i was disapointed in the text- it lacked inspiration and enthusiasm. this is a biography meant to be read by dylan novices, and hardcore fans will be disapointed. what saves the book from being a total rip off is the collection of photographs- the pictures tell the story in this book, not the author. which, in a way, is fine- like the man said, "nobody does dylan like dylan..."

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars GREAT PICTURES!.......Text is cursory and inadequate., December 31, 1998

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David E. Berenbaum "Simply A Fan" (Annandale, Virginia United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Dylan: The Life and Music of America's Folk-Rock Icon (Hardcover)

This book has many great photos which is a good thing because the text is cursory, shallow and somewhat inaccurate. Appears to be written by someone who looked up Dylan in the encyclopaedia but knows little about the music or the man. The accolades on the back cover are a joke. It would be funny if it were not insulting to reasonably informed Bobcats. Informative (if sometimes misleading) only to the Dylan neophyte. Take with a grain of salt. But as I said...GREAT PICTURES!