Clinton Heylin

Clinton Heylin (born 8 April 1960 in Manchester) is an English author who has written extensively about popular music and the work of Bob Dylan.

Education

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

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 and Sandy Denny.

Heylin has also published favorably reviewed studies of Orson Welles, Despite The System: Orson Welles versus The Hollywood Studios,^[1] and Shakespeare's sonnets, So Long As Men Can Breathe.^[2]

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

References

1. ^ Schulberg, Budd (2005-05-01). "The Kane Mutiny". New York Times. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F0DE7DB1731F932A35756C0A9639C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=3. Retrieved 2010-03-10. 
2. ^ Peters, Susan (2009-06-01). "Literature, So Long as Men Can Breathe". The Library Journal. http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6660937.html. Retrieved 2010-03-10. 

External links

• The official Clinton Heylin website

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Name	Heylin, Clinton
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Short description	English author
Date of birth	1960-04-08
Place of birth	Manchester, England
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