A collection of the lyrics of music legend and poet, Bob Dylan. This book contains his writings in addition to the beloved songs of the early Dylan canon. Bob dylan's songs have spoken to generations, and have had a huge influence on such artists as John Lennon, Lou Reed and Mark Knopfler.

Covering his life from his birth in 1926 to his career as a distinguished poet and professor, this is a biography of the beat poet Allen Ginsberg. Barry Miles draws on their long friendship and on Ginsberg's own journals and correspondence to give a full account of his life up to his death in 1997.

The first volume in a series of memoirs by an influential musician and songwriter.

This volume tells the story of the birth of rhythm-and-blues. It records the rise and fall of Stax Records - who produced Otis Redding, Booker T. and the MGs - as well as other labels such as Atlantic. It profiles major artists such as Aretha Franklin, Sam Cooke, James Brown and Al Green.

Argues that there can be found in American folk a community as deep, as electric, as perverse and as conflicted as all America, and that the songs Bob Dylan recorded out of the public eye, in a basement in Woodstock with the group who would later become The Band, are where that community as a whole gets to speak.

A 4-way biography of Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, her sister Mimi and Richard Farina and how these beatniks made folk the new rock.