Helpful Score: 1
Well this book was not quite what I expected. I thought it was going to be a biography of Dylan but instead it was a somewhat pretentious narrative of how "Like a Rolling Stone" came to be and how it is probably the greatest rock song ever! Not sure if I totally agree with that even though I do like the song and Bob Dylan's work. The book doesn't go into hardly any details of Dylan's life but it does have some good background on Dylan influences such as Muddy Waters and Robert Johnson. It also talks about Mike Bloomfield who was the guitarist on "Stone" and his downward spiral because of drugs. But overall, I wouldn't recommend this one - I think Marcus tries to make too much out of a great song and how it was perceived at the time.
