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Maybe somebody should find out when the next book is coming. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.162.7.174 (talk) 15:55, 22 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

hi!i think 'chronicles vol 1' is the first book ever to come out as 'vol 1' before the others ever existed! e.g. 'back to the future 1' was just called 'back to the future' until the second and third episodes came out. would you be able to confirm this?

The cover of the book says Vol. 1, so I think we should just keep it the way it is. Regardless if vol. 2 or 3 ever come out. -Vladimir Lenin 20:51, 16 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The cover of the book says, "Volume One". Why has it's title been abbreviated? This needs to be changed. Thanks Educated Guest (talk) 23:59, 9 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Fixed at last. (thanks to RHaworth) Mick gold (talk) 08:26, 3 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

In music it's not unheard of to use a "Volume 1" designation without having a Volume 2 ready to go. The Honeydrippers' only EP was The Honeydrippers: Volume One, but Robert Plant never released anything else under the Honeydrippers name, much less a Volume Two. George Michael released Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1 in 1990, and even though he lived more than 25 years after that and released three more albums, he never released a Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 2, in part due to a dispute with Sony Records. And to take an example where Bob Dylan was personally involved, the Traveling Wilburys' first album was titled Traveling Wilburys Vol. 1. Unlike the former two acts, the Wilburys did keep up the volume numbering with their next album ... although they titled it Traveling Wilburys Vol. 3. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 02:46, 6 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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"His memoir's tenuous relationship to the truth"

'Dylan had been upfront, however, about his memoir's tenuous relationship to the truth. He discussed his strategy for writing it in a Time magazine interview in 2001: "I'll take some of the stuff that people think is true and I'll build a story around that"'...

But not so upfront that Dylan has a prefatory statement in the book itself saying as much.

The average bloke plunking down $27 for the hardcover who never saw the Time interview thinks he's gonna get something straight from the horse's mouth, but it's more like from the horse's ass.

As a result, Heylin says about it as indicated in the article:

"He's not the first guy to write a biography that's a pack of lies..." M.mk (talk) 01:11, 16 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

[Rolling Stone:] Chronicles: Volume One is obviously not a straightforward history book. What frustrates you most about it, just as a student of history?

[Clinton Heylin:] What really perplexes me is that I’ve seen only a smidgen, but enough, of the early drafts of Chronicles to wonder what happened. The early drafts, of course they’re Dylanesque, of course they see things very much through his prism, but there’s no conscious attempt to literally destroy history, to bend it to your will and show it to be a sham. The book that was published was very much that.

And so at some point between 1997 when I quote that paragraph in my book, and 2004, when the book was published, Dylan had a complete re-think and decided that history is bunk. I’m guessing what happened is he started work on Masked and Anonymous. But of course it’s legitimate to do it in Masked and Anonymous because it’s a work of fiction. But to take that and run with it in what’s supposed to be a memoir, it’s clearly a conscious decisions. And it’s one he made after he started conceptualizing Chronicles. I don’t understand why he did it.

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/bob-dylan-biographer-clinton-heylin-interview-double-life-book-1166784/ M.mk (talk) 19:29, 23 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

One wonders if the publisher just gave Dylan carte blanche to write what he wished or whether anyone there connected with the book had concerns about veracity.

Maybe Dylan would only sign a book contract that gave him carte blanche, maybe the publisher did not care about veracity, figuring a Dylan-penned book was bound to make money, maybe they were simply unaware of the lack of veracity, as, I would think, the average reader would be.

Anyone who has answers to these questions, please add them to the article.

Thank you. M.mk (talk) 21:54, 26 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I added: "However, no such statement appeared in the book itself." Right after the quoted statement of Dylan to Time mag characterizing what he said as "upfront." M.mk (talk) 01:17, 30 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]