Bob Dylan transformed not only folk music, but rock 8217;n8217; roll as a whole: he brought the intellectualism of folk lyrics to a genre still dominated by romantic conventions. From the phenomenal commercial success of his 1965 epic, gritty single 147;Like a Rolling Stone8221; to Time Out of Mind, rock8217;s first treatise on mortality, in 1997, Dylan has been fearlessly breaking new ground. The Mammoth Book of Bob Dylan explores his phenomenal legacy in over 500 pages of Dylan expos233;