BOB DYLAN - DYLAN SETS THE RECORD STRAIGHT

Rock legend BOB DYLAN felt compelled to write an autobiography after reading so many false accounts of his life.

Dylan regards his upcoming CHRONICLES as an opportunity to "set the record straight".

He explains how the three-volume account came about, "I knew there had been other books about me and I'd even read a couple of them - although frankly you can't spend time reading books about yourself, no matter who you are.

"Some of the books were more accurate than others, but no one knew the full story, apart from me. So I sat down and started tapping away on my old manual typewriter. Initially, the book was going to be about the background to some of my albums, but then it took on a life of its own.

"The chapters about my early days in New York were supposed to be about how I recorded my second album THE FREEWHEELIN' BOB DYLAN. But somehow I never quite got there.

"Every few weeks I'd send off some pages to my publisher and ask if they thought they were usable. They seemed happy and so I just kept on going."