Bob Dylan: 'Jesus, Who's Got Time to Keep Up with the Times?'
Mick Brown, Sunday Times, 1 July 1984
This week Bob Dylan comes to Britain. The folksinger-cum-folk hero of the 1960s has not always had a good reception here. In 1965 purists attacked him for "going electric". In 1981 his new-found evangelism left many of his fans cold. What should they expect this time? Last week Mick Brown had an exclusive interview.
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