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"Book 3 chronicles how Bob Dylan redefined popular music through nearly two years of creative breakthroughs. In 1965, Bob Dylan released his fifth album, Bringing It All Back Home, featuring an electric band sound and totemic songs ""Subterranean Homesick Blues"" and ""Mr. Tambourine Man."" Bob Dylan and Joan Baez appeared together in a handful of East Coast performances in their first (and only) official double bill. In late April 1965 Dylan toured the UK, closing with a high-profile BBC appearance in June. Cinéma vérité documentarian D. A. Pennebaker was along for the ride, filming fourteen days of Dylan's last solo acoustic tour. The ensuing film, Don't Look Back (1967), showed the artist at a crucial point in his career and offers glimpses of the mania surrounding him. Dylan and Allen Ginsberg first met in 1963 and remained fans of each other's work, sharing a lifelong interest in literature and poetry. The Beats inspired Dylan's lyrics, and Ginsberg remained one of Dylan's most frequent correspondents until his death in 1997. By 1966, Bob Dylan's fame had spread around the world, with his international concert tours and mobbed media appearances. On a July morning in Woodstock, New York, as he was riding his motorbike home from visiting his manager Albert Grossman, Dylan was involved in a motorcycle crash. Many details surrounding the accident, Dylan's injuries, and his recovery remain a mystery. At the time of the crash, Dylan was slated to go back on the road for a series of concerts, including one in Moscow. Everything was canceled."

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"Parker Fishel is an archivist who served as co-curator of the inaugural exhibitions at the Bob Dylan Center. His company, Americana Music Productions, provides consulting, research, and production work for artists and estates, record labels, and other entities looking to preserve archives and share the important stories found in them. His selected credits include Ann Arbor Blues Festival 1969 (Third Man Records), the Chelsea Hotel-inspired Chelsea Doors box set (Vinyl Me, Please), and several volumes of Bob Dylan's GRAMMY Award-winning Bootleg Series (Sony/Legacy). Fishel is also a board member of the Hot Club Foundation and a co-founder of the nonprofit improvised music archive Crossing Tones. Mark Davidson is the Curator of the Bob Dylan Archive and Senior Director of Archives and Exhibitions for the Bob Dylan and Woody Guthrie Centers in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He holds a PhD in musicology from the University of California-Santa Cruz with an emphasis on folk music collecting, and an MSIS in archiving and library science from the University of Texas at Austin. He has written widely on music and archives, including his dissertation, ""Recording the Nation: Folk Music and the Government in Roosevelt's New Deal, 1936-1941,"" and the essay ""Blood in the Stacks: On the Nature of Archives in the Twenty-First Century,"" published in The World of Bob Dylan (2021). Clinton Heylin, who has been described by The New York Times as ""the only Dylanologist worth reading,"" is the author of the acclaimed Bob Dylan: Behind the Shades and more than two dozen other books on music and popular culture. These include biographies of Sandy Denny, Van Morrison, and Orson Welles, and two classic studies of punk's origins, From the Velvets to the Voidoids and Anarchy in the Year Zero. An ex-pupil of Manchester Grammar School who went on to earn two history degrees, he has been a full-time historian and critic for more than three decades. Heylin lives in Somerset, England. Amanda Petrusich is a staff writer at The New Yorker and the author of three books. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in nonfiction and has been nominated for a GRAMMY Award. Her criticism and features have appeared in The New York Times, Oxford American, Spin, Pitchfork, GQ, Esquire, The Atlantic, and the Virginia Quarterly Review. Her most recent book, Do Not Sell at Any Price, explored the obsessive world of 78-rpm record collectors. She is the writer-in-residence at New York University's Gallatin School. Griffin Ondaatje is a writer and documentary filmmaker born in Kingston, Canada. His documentary film about Bob Dylan, Complete Unknown, premiered at festivals in North America and the UK in 2003. His books include The Mosquito Brothers, Muddy, and The Camel in the Sun, which was selected for the Austria Children's Book Prize and the Middle East Book Award. He also edited The Monkey King and Other Stories, a collection of South Asian folktales and legends, and worked for many years as a researcher for documentary films. His books have been translated into German, Korean, Arabic, Swedish, Italian, and Turkish. Currently he is writing Half Wild, a book of essays and interviews based on the music of Bob Dylan. He lives near Toronto with his family. Tom Piazza is celebrated both as a novelist and as a writer on American music. His books include the novels The Auburn Conference, A Free State, and City of Refuge, the post-Katrina manifesto Why New Orleans Matters, and Devil Sent the Rain, a collection of his essays and journalism. Of Piazza's short-story collection Blues and Trouble, Bob Dylan wrote, ""Tom's stories are like the silence in a queer room--they pulsate with nervous electrical tension, reveal the emotions that we can't define."" He was a principal writer for the innovative HBO drama series TREME, and the winner of a GRAMMY Award for his album notes to Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues: A Musical Journey. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, Bookforum, Oxford American, and many other periodicals. He lives in New Orleans."

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