Dalton, founding editor of Rolling stone, presents a kaleidoscopic biography of the rock icon, providing a new perspective on the man, the myth and the musical legend.

Reprint. Originally published: New York : Hyperion, 2012. With new foreword.

Foreword. Letter to Bob -- Prologue. Something was happening but I didn't know what it was : that afternoon with Bob -- Introduction -- Creation myths -- The hall of early folk memories -- Woody Junior -- Li'l Abner on Bleecker Street -- Folk Messiah -- The Zimmerman letter -- From a Buick 6 -- The hallucinated alphabet -- Bob gets wired -- How does it feel? Self portrait at 24 frames per second -- Ballad of a thin man -- Godzilla vs. Mothra : two icons of the '60s meet under false pretenses -- That wild Mercury sound : what are Shakespeare, Memphis Minnie, Jackie DeShannon, John Lennon, Achilles, Napoleon XIV, Lesley Gore, and Johann Sebastian Bach doing on this album? -- After the ambulances go -- Somebody got lucky but it was an accident -- Fifty-four minutes inside Bob's brain -- Who is Tiny Montgomery? -- The cowboy angel rides : John Wesley Harding -- The invisible man goes to Nashville -- The amnesia -- How Dylan became Dylan, sort of... -- Under the rings of Saturn -- The second coming of Bob -- Bob's wild west (Village) show -- Epiphany in room 702 -- Down the road -- When I paint my masterpiece -- The enigma variations.