Bob Dylan: London Arena
Sylvie Simmons, MOJO, July 2002
THE PA IN THIS grim, dispiriting venue outright winner of the industrial-estate self-storage-unit-impersonating-lkea-during-the-sales lookalike contest has started, somewhat disconcertingly, to blare out 'Fanfare For The Common Man'. A startled pigeon falls from the rafters, straightens itself up and swoops above the stage.
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