Clinton Heylin

Bob Dylan’s idea of modern song is nothing of the sort

Most of the 66 songs he discusses in a collection of meditative essays date from the late 1940s to the advent of punk – a movement that evidently passed him by

Bob Dylan in California in 2009. [Getty Images]

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