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Bob Dylan: At Budokan

Ira Robbins, Trouser Press, July 1979

AFTER 16 YEARS IN the public eye, growing and developing, quick-cutting and dodging, Bob Dylan carries his catalogue of songs behind him like a bevy of unwanted children, being nice to them on occasion, yet allowing base cruelty to win over kinder emotions.

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