BOOKS PUBLISHED

SONG & DANCE MAN: The Art of Bob Dylan
The 50th Anniversary Series, in three volumes:
Vol. 1  -  Language & Tradition
Vol. 2  - Yonder Comes Sin
Vol. 3  - World Gone Right
The FM Press (US paperbacks, 2023)


OUTTAKES ON BOB DYLAN: Selected Writings 1967-2021
Route Publishing (UK hardback, 2021)


HAND ME MY TRAVELIN' SHOES: In Search of Blind Willie McTell
Bloomsbury (UK hardback, 2007)
Bloomsbury (UK paperback, 2008)
Chicago Review Press (US hardback, 2009)
Chicago Review Press (US e-edition, 2009)


THE BOB DYLAN ENCYCLOPEDIA
Continuum International (US & UK hardback, 2006)
Continuum International (US & UK paperback & then updated paperback, 2008)


SONG & DANCE MAN III: The Art of Bob Dylan
Cassell Academic (UK hardback, 1999)
Cassell Academic (UK paperback, 1999)
Continuum (US hardback, 2000)
Continuum (US paperback, 2000)
Continuum International (UK & US p'back reprints, 2000, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008)


THE ELVIS ATLAS: A Journey Through Elvis Presley's America
Henry Holt (US hardback, 1996) - co-authored by Roger Osborne
Chartwell Books Inc. (US hardback, inadequately revised edition, 2011) co-authored by Roger Osborne



MOTHER! The Frank Zappa Story
Proteus (UK paperback, 1985)
Cherry Lane (US paperback, 1985)
Arcana (Italian translation, paperback, 1986, titled ZAPP!)
Plexus (UK paperback, revised edition, 1993)
VGS (German translation, hardback, 1984, titled FRANK ZAPPA STORY)
Plexus (UK paperback, updated edition, 1994, 2001, 2007)


THE ART OF BOB DYLAN: Song & Dance Man
Hamlyns (UK hardback, 1981)
Hamlyns (UK paperback, 1981)
St.Martin’s Press (US hardback, 1982)
St.Martin’s Press (US paperback, 1982)


SONG & DANCE MAN: The Art of Bob Dylan
Hart-Davis-MacGibbon (UK hardback, 1972)
Abacus (UK paperback, 1973)
E.P.Dutton (US hardback, 1973)
Shobun-Sha (Japanese translation, hardback, 1973)

BOOKS EDITED

ALL ACROSS THE TELEGRAPH: A Bob Dylan Handbook
Sidgwick & Jackson (UK hardback, 1987) co-edited by John Bauldie
Futura (UK paperback, 1988) co-edited by John Bauldie
Time-Warner Books UK (paperback reprint of 1988 edition, 1993)

BOOKS CONTRIBUTED TO

ELVIS SPECIAL 1964
Albert Hand Publications, Heanor, Derbyshire (UK hardback, 1963)
Contribution: article 'First Person'


PONTEFRACT by J.S. Fletcher
S.R.Publishers, East Ardsley, Wakefield (hardback reprint edition, 1969)
Contribution: Inside jacket blurb


TARANTULA by Bob Dylan
MacGibbon & Kee, London (UK hardback 1st edition, 1971)
Contribution: Inside jacket blurb


JIMI by Curtis Knight
W.H. Allen, London (UK hardback 1st edition, 1974)
Swing Journal (Japan hardback, 1975)
Star Books (UK paperback, 1975)
Praeger (US hardback, 1975)
Praeger (US paperback, 1976)
Contribution: Ghost-writer. I turned it into sentences


RADIO 1 STORY OF POP
Octopus Books, London (UK hardback, 1974)
Contribution: essays on Bob Dylan and Elvis Presley


ENCYCLOPEDIA Of ROCK VOL. 1
Panther Books, London (UK paperback, 1976)
Contribution: entries on Tommy Steele and Elvis Presley


ENCYCLOPEDIA Of ROCK VOL. 2
Panther Books, London (UK paperback, 1976)
Contribution: entries on Jimi Hendrix and Frank Zappa


CONCLUSIONS ON THE WALL: New Essays On Bob Dylan
Thin Man Books, England (UK paperback, 1980)
Contribution: essay/memoir 'Sixteen Years'


NO DIRECTION HOME: The life and Music of Bob Dylan
by Robert Shelton
William Morrow, New York (US 1st edition hardback, 1986)
New English Library, London (UK hardback, 1986)
Penguin Books, Harmondsworth (UK paperback, 1987)
various subsequent editions
Contribution: reports commissioned by Robert Shelton on Blonde On Blonde and on Dylan bootlegs


100 YEARS ON RECORD
Rococo Publishing, London (UK paperback, 1989)
Contribution: Music Editor, and articles on Elvis Presley, Roy Orbison and Bob Dylan


THIRTY YEARS OF NME ALBUM CHARTS
Boxtree Books, London (UK paperback, 1993)
Contribution: the commentaries for the years 1962-1979


GOOD FOOD GUIDE 1994
Which? Books, London (UK paperback, 1993)
Contribution: three quotes published anonymously


BOB DYLAN: FUNFZIG JAHRE...
Germinal, Bochum (German paperback, 1993)
Contribution: essay on Dylan & the Blues - an early prototype for Song & Dance Man III Chapter 9
translated into German by Hein Versteegen


THE LITERARY COMPANION TO DOGS
Sinclair-Stevenson, London (UK hardback, 1994)
Contribution: list of 'Dogs Bob Dylan Seems To Have Abandoned'
reprinted from ALL ACROSS THE TELEGRAPH


THE COMPLETE NME ALBUM CHARTS
Boxtree Books, London (UK paperback, 1995)
Contribution: the commentaries for the years 1962-1979


ISIS ANTHOLOGY II
Chrome Dreams, New Malden (UK hardback & paperback, 2005)
Contribution: essay 'In Bob Dylan's Minnesota Footsteps'


ROUTLEDGE BLUES ENCYCLOPEDIA
Routledge, New York (US two-volume hardback, 2005)
Contribution: entry on Blind Willie McTell


THE MAMMOTH BOB DYLAN BOOK
Constable & Robinson, London (UK paperback, 2011)
Contibution: two Bob Dylan Encyclopedia entries
('Madhouse on Castle Street' and 'Masked & Anonymous')


REFRACTIONS OF BOB DYLAN:
Cultural Appropriations of an American Icon
Manchester University Press, Manchester (UK paperback, 2015)
edited by Eugen Banauch
Contribution: essay on 'Bob Dylan's Americanness in 1960s Britain'


LET THE DEVIL SPEAK:
Articles, Essays & Incitements, by Steven Hart
Black Angel Press (US paperback, 2015)
Contribution: back cover quote


IN DYLAN TOWN:
A Fan's Life, by David Gaines
University of Iowa Press (US paperback, 2015)
Contribution: back cover quote


BOB DYLAN DREAM:
My Life With Bob, by Roy Kelly
Pembury House Publishing (UK paperback, 2015)
Contribution: back cover quote


ROCK ‘N’ FILM:
Cinema’s Dance with Popular Music, by David E. James
Oxford University Press (US hardback, 2016)
Contribution: back cover quote


PROFESSING DYLAN
edited by Frances Hunter
PhillipsMemphis Publishing (US paperback, 2016)
Contribution: Foreword


BUZZCOCKS: THE COMPLETE HISTORY
by Tony McGartland
John Blake Books (UK paperback, 2017)
Contribution: two photographs


AGAINST MISERABILISM
by David Widgery
Vagabond Voices (UK paperback, 2017)
Contribution: back-flap author photograph also used inside


VISITING BOB: Poems Inspired by the Life and Work of Bob Dylan
ed. Thom Tommaro & Alan Davis
New Rivers Press (US paperback, 2018)
Contribution: back cover quote


THE TRUE PERFORMING OF IT: Bob Dylan & William Shakespeare
by Andrew Muir
Red Planet Publishing (UK paperback, 2019)
Contribution: back cover quote


SALON 188 BIS HEUTE: Anthologie und Dokumentation
Various authors; ed. Rainer Vesely & Bernhard Widder
SalonPresse (German paperback, 2019)
Contribution: short essay


NEW APPROACHES TO BOB DYLAN
Various authors: ed. Anne-Marie Mai
University of Southern Denmark Press, Odense (Danish paperback, 2020)
Contribution: essay based on University of Southern Denmark keynote conference paper



DYLAN AT 80: It Used To Go Like That, And Now It Goes Like This
Various authors: ed. Gary Browning & Constantine Sandis
Imprint (UK paperback, 2021)
Contribution: essay 'The Finishing End?'