Biographer Clinton Heylin described the song as " the most extraordinary performance of the sessions, as demonically driven as anything Robert Johnson put out in his name.

Biographer Stuart Schram would later comment that during the period between 1925 and 1927, Mao was closer to the Kuomintang than he was to the Communist Party, something he attributed to Mao's belief that the good of China was more important than the cause of socialism.

Biographer James Miller would later note that while the book exhibited " erudition and evident intelligence ", it lacked the " kind of fire and flair " which Foucault exhibited in his subsequent works.

Biographer Charles Higham records that the sisters have always had an uneasy relationship, starting in early childhood when de Havilland would rip up the clothes Fontaine had to wear as hand-me-downs, forcing Fontaine to sew them back together.

Biographer Ezra Squier Tipple wrote: " If to speak with authority as the accredited messenger of God ; to have credentials which bear the seal of heaven ... if when he lifted the trumpet to his lips the Almighty blew the blast ; if to be conscious of an ever-present sense of God, God the Summoner, God the Anointing One, God the Judge, and to project it into speech which would make his hearers tremble, melt them with terror, and cause them to fall as dead men ; if to be and do all this would entitle a man to be called a great preacher, then Asbury was a great preacher.

Biographer Charles Higham records that the sisters have always had an uneasy relationship, starting in early childhood, when de Havilland would rip up the clothes that Fontaine had to wear as hand-me-downs.

Biographer Paul Paschal questioned why a modest man who lived simply and donated most of his income would request such an expensive and ornate decoration.

Biographer Bill Cooke, however, disputes the allegation, citing McCabe's opinion that " Catholics are no worse, and no better, than others ", and " I have not the least prejudice against the Catholic laity, which would be stupid.

Biographer William Carlton expounds that Pauline — a commoner from Corsica — would never have made such an advantageous match if it weren't for Napoleon's political eminence.

Biographer Paul Trynka has written that The Idiot " would remain an album that was more respected than loved, the reviews mostly neutral " but that it " prefigured the soul of post-punk ".

Biographer Lou Cannon would later describe the missive as " one of the few foreign policy documents composed by Reagan ... without the assistance of speechwriters or formal position papers from his various departments ".

Biographer David Buckley writes, " The essence of Bowie's contribution to popular music can be found in his outstanding ability to analyse and select ideas from outside the mainstream — from art, literature, theatre and film — and to bring them inside, so that the currency of pop is constantly being changed.

Biographer Susan Baker writes that Hofstadter, " was profoundly influenced by the political Left of the 1930's .... The philosophical impact of Marxism was so intense and direct during Hofstadter's formative years that it formed a major part of his identity crisis ....

Biographer Stephen Henderson writes that the war had made him " more serious and less self-confident ", but " struck by the willingness of so many to march to horrible deaths in the name of an abstract principle ".

Biographer Frank MacShane writes " The excessiveness of Julian's suicide is what makes Appointment in Samarra so much a part of its time.

Biographer Tad Mosel states, " To show her affection for her hometown, she always walked slowly when she left her hotel, turning her head to smile on everyone on the street, missing no one, so they could feel close to her and be able to say when they got home that night, ' Katharine Cornell smiled directly at me.

" Biographer Trefousse indicates that Johnson's drinking on the occasion was the result of ill health which began before his arrival in Washington, though the exact nature of the ailment is not specified.

Biographer Blanche Weisen Cook suggests that this period served as " the political education of General Eisenhower ", as he had to prioritize wide-ranging educational, administrative, and financial demands for the university.

Biographer Stephen Ambrose opined that this was the best speech of Eisenhower's presidency.

" The bar was our altar " Biographer Andrew Lycett ascribed the demise of Thomas ' health to an alcoholic co-dependent relationship with his wife, who deeply resented his affairs.

Biographer Christopher Sandford writes, " Over the years, most British rockers had tried, one way or another, to become black-by-extension.

Biographer Alan Howard conducted extensive interviews for this, the only book-length biography of the often reclusive McLean to date.

Biographer Joseph McBride argues that Capra's disillusionment was more related to the negative effect that the House Un-American Activities Committee ( HUAC ) had on the film industry in general.

Biographer Allan Nevins wrote: " in Grover Cleveland the greatness lies in typical rather than unusual qualities.

Biographer Philip Heselton suggested that through the nudist scene Gardner may have also met Dion Byngham ( 1896 – 1990 ), a senior member of the Order of Woodcraft Chivalry who propounded a Contemporary Pagan religion known as Dionysianism.

" Biographer Ian McIntyre discusses the possibility of Reynolds having enjoyed sexual rendezvous with certain clients, such as Nelly O ' Brien ( or " My Lady O ' Brien ", as he playfully dubbed her ) and Kitty Fisher, who visited his house for more sittings than were strictly necessary.

Biographer James S. Williams describes Cocteau's politics as " naturally Right-leaning.

Biographer David Crane reduces the missing period to eleven weeks, but is unable to clarify further.

Biographer Daniel Jaffé argued that Prokofiev, " having forced himself to compose a cheerful evocation of the nirvana Stalin wanted everyone to believe he had created " ( i. e. in Zdravitsa ) then subsequently, in these three sonatas, " expressed his true feelings ".

Biographer Lawrence Sutin quotes private diaries that fit this story, and writes that " if ever Crowley uttered the truth of his relation to the Book ," his public account accurately describes what he remembered on this point.

Biographer of Samuel Johnson, helped established the norms for writing biography in general.

Biographer Smith, however, maintains that evidence against Babcock was circumstantial.

Biographer Andrew Sinclair asserts that, like many contemporaries during the days of Ohio Republican Party boss Mark Hanna, Harding was involved with graft and excessive patronage.

( Biographer Peskin speculated this may have been infectious hepatitis.

" Biographer Robert V. Remini said that Jefferson " had no great love for Jackson.

Biographer Tim Pat Coogan sees his time in power as being characterised by economic and cultural stagnation, while Diarmaid Ferriter argues that the stereotype of De Valera as an austere, cold and even backward figure was largely manufactured in the 1960s and is misguided.

By the end of 1977, according to music historian Clinton Heylin, they were " England's arch-exponents of New Musick, and the true heralds of what came next.

* Heylin, Clinton ( 1993 ).

* Heylin, Clinton ( 2007 ).

Clinton Heylin, author of Babylon's Burning: From Punk to Grunge, cited Black Sabbath as " perhaps the most ubiquitous pre-punk influence on the northwest scene.

" In his biography, Clinton Heylin gives the date for the second session as 1 October and states that " Only ' As Young Lovers Do ' from this session would make the album " contending that this is the reason for the different " lounge-jazz sound " on this track.

* Heylin, Clinton ( 2003 ).

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* Clinton Heylin, From the Velvets to the Voidoids: A Pre-Punk History for a Post-Punk World ( 1993 ), Penguin Books, ISBN 0-14-017970-4

* From the Velvets to the Voidoids: A Pre-Punk History for a Post-Punk World by Clinton Heylin, 1993, Penguin Books, ISBN 1-55652-575-3

According to Clinton Heylin, the original handwritten manuscript to " Song for Woody " bears the following inscription at the bottom of the sheet: " Written by Bob Dylan in Mills Bar on Bleecker Street in New York City on the 14th day of February, for Woody Guthrie.

( According to Clinton Heylin, Lomax first heard the song " in 1908 when, across the Brazos river from Texas A & M College, he heard a lady called Dink sing her song.

This refrain would soon appear in a very important composition, " Chimes of Freedom ", and, as biographer Clinton Heylin writes, " with this sad refrain, Dylan would pass from topical troubadour to poet of the road.

" Its sense of the power of nature ... closely mirrors ' Lay Down Your Weary Tune ,'" writes Clinton Heylin.

Clinton Heylin would claim that " Dylan was simply too close to the experiences he was drawing upon to translate them into art.

Clinton Heylin reports that a Times reporter at a May 1964 Royal Festival Hall concert where Dylan first played " It Ain't Me " took the lines " no, no, no, it ain't me babe " as a parody of The Beatles ' " She Loves You ".

According to Clinton Heylin, these were her first shows with drummer Jay Dee Daugherty, the culmination of four years spent " compiling a unique rock & roll sound ".

Clinton Heylin wrote that the song suggested Dylan's self-confidence as an artist had returned, but that he still faced problems in his marriage.

Despite all the controversy, Clinton Heylin noted that " Joey " remained the one song from Desire to have regularly featured in concert in the nineties.

As Clinton Heylin reports, " the show itself was proving to be very physically demanding, but then, he perhaps reasoned, he'd played a gig in Montreal a month earlier with a temperature of 105.

" Synonymous with a small studio in Sheffield, Alabama, the sixties Atlantic recordings of Wexler defined the Muscle Shoals Sound ," writes Clinton Heylin.

" According to Clinton Heylin, " Marcus isolated Slow Train Comings greatest flaw, an inevitable by-product of his determination to capture the immediacy of newfound faith in song.

" Clinton Heylin gives " Blind Willie McTell " a more ambitious interpretation, describing it as " the world's eulogy, sung by an old bluesman recast as St. John the Divine.

As Clinton Heylin reports, while promoting The Traveling Wilburys in the fall of 1988, George Harrison discussed some of Dylan's upcoming work.