Dylan on Dylan -- first volume of his memoirs about to hit bookstores.

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Bob on Bob - but do we really know where he's at?

Dylan has always obscured details of his private life, so will his autobiography, out this week, be the gospel truth - or will his secrets still be concealed? Caspar Llewellyn Smith reports

Caspar Llewellyn Smith, editor of Observer Music Monthly
Sunday October 3, 2004
The Observer

It is the summer of 1968 and Bob Dylan is in Woodstock, upstate New York, after surviving a motorcycle crash and retreating from his public - which includes every crazed orphan of the Sixties' revolution.

The 27-year-old singer has sought tranquillity in the company of his wife, Sara, and the three children they share, and to hell with the business of acting as the spokesman for a generation.

'Truth was that I wanted to get out of the rat race,' he writes in the first volume of his memoirs. 'Having children changed my life and segregated me from just about everybody and everything.

'Outside my family, nothing held any real interest for me and I was seeing everything through different glasses. Even the horrifying news items of the day, the gunning down of the Kennedys, King, Malcolm X ... I didn't see them as leaders being shot down, but rather as fathers whose families had been left wounded.'

http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,1318513,00.html

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1. I'll read it with much interest :)

"I didn't see them as leaders being shot down, but rather as fathers whose families had been left wounded."

Now THAT is a perspective that very few people would even consider. . . says a lot about how Bob views the world.

[Zomby Woof]

2. it will be fascinating

No matter what it conceals, it will be relished for what it reveals, and that snippet already proves it.

Can't wait!