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The most gruesome rock 'n' roll legends

This Is Not a Bob Dylan Movie: Todd Haynes is known for films that are daring and arty and don’t always make sense. Inside the making of his weirdest, most audacious work yet. Gonna change my way of thinking: Great books spurred Bob Dylan to reject a "passion for dumbness”. It's that untraditionally framed reverence for tradition that makes Dylan apt reading for first-year humanities students. Return to Margaritaville: The possibility of meeting Jimmy Buffett prompts a longtime Parrothead to examine just why his idol's music moves him so. A review of I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead: The Dirty Life and Times of Warren Zevon by Crystal Zevon. A review of Re-make/Re-model: Art, Pop, Fashion and the Making of Roxy Music, 1952-1972 by Michael Bracewell. A review of Clapton: The Autobiography. Everyone's heard Pink Floyd's “Another Brick in the Wall” — but the story of how a handful of children got to sing on the track recalls an era of starkly different schooling values from those held today. Here are the 7 most gruesome rock 'n' roll legends (and whether they’re true).