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Bob Dylan: He's glum, he's 55 and he sang at Hyde Park. So who listens now?

Andy Beckett, The Independent, 29 June 1996

"DON'T WRITE that we're all old hippies," said the Dylan fan, short-haired, hatchet-faced and over 40. He walked off across the bookshop, handing out set lists for yesterday's Hyde Park concert like forbidden pamphlets.

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