Wanted Man. In Search of Bob Dylan. 1990. Cloth with dustjacket.

by John Bauldie (Editor)

Wanted Man: In Search of Bob Dylan by John Bauldie. Published by Black Spring Press, London, in 1990. First edition, first printing, with "First Edition" stated on the copyright page. Original publisher's price of 12.95 GBP on the front flap. Red hardcover with gold lettering on the spine. 224 pages. Includes several b/w photographs. Dust jacket with color photo of Dylan from 1986 on the front cover and reproductions of letters to The Telegraph on the rear cover. John Bauldie was the editor of the Bob Dylan magazine The Telegraph.

Genres: Music, Biography, Nonfiction

224 pages, Hardcover

First published October 25, 1990

Reviews

[Paul Bryant · Rating 4 out of 5]

I liked this one -

A Bob Dylan fan is browsing in a record shop and on comes Bob over the speakers. The guy says to the sales assistant "Are you a Dylan fan too?". Sales assistant says "Huh? It's ten minutes to five, I always put that record on to clear out the shop before I close."

[David Allen · Rating 3 out of 5]

John Bauldie, the late editor of the late Dylan-centric magazine The Telegraph, and his contributors took their subject seriously while not taking him overly seriously, a respectful but irreverent posture that the Bard himself apparently appreciated. The articles and interviews in this best-of are minor but entertaining, with Ron Wood, Patti Smith and Eric Clapton surprisingly chatty. Overall we get, to quote a phrase, another side of Bob Dylan.

[Emily Coppella · Rating 5 out of 5]

A diverse collection of obscure interviews with people whose lives converged with Dylan = magical.

[Ralph Burton · Rating 5 out of 5]

A book that reads like Alisdair Gray’s Poor Things in how it examines an individual only through the eyes of others. Highlights include Bruce Springsteen, Paul McCartney and Eric Clapton. As usual, there is a bizarre focus on Renaldo and Clara at the expense of Blood on the Tracks. Perhaps all these people are taking Dylan at his word when he says that album wasn’t personal at all, just based on a book of Chekhov short stories.

[Timothy Dries · Rating 3 out of 5]

I think this book is really for die-hard Dylan obsessives. I am more of a causal Dylan fan, so some of the chapters were frankly not very interesting.

[Paul Gibboney]

Bob Dylan,Music

[Reid · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not bad as a collection of articles and interviews but nothing too enlightening. I enjoyed the Patti Smith interview from 1977 as well as some of the 1980s pieces, less covered periods.