This dual biography explores popular music's two most influential songwriters and their place within the political and social movements of their time. It discusses their relationship, politics, appreciation of history and spirituality to show how each artist challenged convention and asked profound questions about what it means to be human.

"Bob Dylan and John Lennon are two of the most influential figures in popular music history. Dylan is arguably the twentieth century's most important singer-songwriter. His works have been covered more often than any other solo composer, and sales of his own records put him comfortably in the thirty most popular performers in United States' history. Lennon was founder and erstwhile leader of the Beatles who remain, by some margin, the most covered songwriters ever and the all-time top-selling popular music entertainers worldwide"--