BOOKS PUBLISHED

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 hardback, 1973)


THE ART OF BOB DYLAN: Song & Dance Man
Hamlyns (UK hardback, 1981)
Hamlyns (UK paperback, 1981)
St.Martin’s Press (US hardback, 1982)1
St.Martin’s Press (US paperback, 1982)


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 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


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


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)

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 Elvis Presley


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')