{"product_id":"dylan","title":"Dylan","description":"\u003cp\u003eNo popular entertainer has been more closely scrutinized than Bob Dylan. His garbage has been emptied, his lyrics computer-scanned, his daily wherabouts logged with an obsessive thoroughness worthy of J. Edgar Hoover's G-men. And still he is a mystery.;Above all performers, Dylan showed his generation how to seize the licence they unanimously demanded: the right to express themselves. Before him, Elvis loosened the restrictions of class and race; then the Beatles and the Stones subverted the outmoded codes of domestic and public behaviour. But Dylan did more: his use of language liberated lyricists, moving them beyond Tin Pan Alley's teenagers-in-love themes, and his attitudes shaped the development of other performers who would themselves influence millions.;It is usually said that Dylan has constantly re-invented himself. Only in such a way can his extraordinary changes of direction - such as the espousal of electric rock in 1965-66, the e into Nashville balladry in 1969, the conversion to born-again Christianity in 1979 - be explained. So extreme, so demanding of both himself and his audience were these shifts that it seemed they could only be the produce of a kind of pervers \u003cbr\u003e\n Dimensions:230 x 300  \u003cbr\u003e\n Author: Richard Williams \u003cbr\u003e\n ISBN: 9780747518259 \u003cbr\u003e\n Format: Paperback \u003cbr\u003e\n Pages 192\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bookhero.ae","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44627599589529,"sku":"Table-F-3-9780747518259","price":20.0,"currency_code":"AED","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0580\/5696\/6297\/files\/0069ae554bb8f47083c9bf0a70128cee.jpg?v=1721484962","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.ae\/products\/dylan","provider":"Dubai - Buy Used\/Second-Hand Books - BookHero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}