Bob Dylan: Biograph
John Mendelsohn, Creem, March 1986
HEARING ABOUT how Stevie I Wonder had to coach him on how to sing like himself on ‘We Are the World’ or watching him and those two stupid English substance-abusers murder ‘Blowin' In The Wind’ at Live Aid, the younger reader might find it inconceivable that Bob Dylan was ever anything other than an embarrassment.
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