This is a well- researched biography of Bob Dylan Published over 40 years ago..
But when New York Post journalist Anthony Scaduto—who covered both the Mafia and pop music beats—published Bob Dylan: An Intimate Biographyin 1972, it was a watershed.
Sure, Serious Rock Journalism already existed.
His most famous work is Dylan, a biography of Bob Dylan, first published in 1972.
But it was mostly in magazines like Rolling Stone, Circus, Creemand Crawdaddy!Bob Dylan is usually cited at the first non-fan-fawning, investigative book-length look at a single artist. That Scaduto did his research and spoke with many who knew Dylan personally early in his career meant it wouldn’t be a clip job.
Since Scaduto’s original book appeared there have been hundreds of books on Bob Dylan.
And not just bios but memoirs and fanzines and analyses with detail that even some ancient civilizations don’t warrant. And they can get minute. Like, say, entire tomes on a single concert (Elijah Wald’s Dylan Goe