Bob Dylan and Richard Manuel of the Band refine their interview technique. Photograph: Jan Persson/Redferns
Bob Dylan and Richard Manuel of the Band refine their interview technique. Photograph: Jan Persson/Redferns
Wed 19 May 2021 11.23 EDT
Last modified on Wed 19 May 2021 16.55 EDT
I had been looking forward to reading and listening to all the stuff marking Bob Dylanâs 80th birthday. Then I heard a trail for a radio play called Dinner With Dylan, going out on Saturday afternoon. The title jolted me back 40 years to a dark moment of shame and embarrassment in my otherwise pretty blameless school days. It was 1981, when I was 14, and long before I had a Dylan collection to rival anybodyâs. In fact I can only have been dimly aware of the great man when I saw a BBC2 Playhouse drama called Bobby Wants to Meet Me. It was, as the name suggests, about someone building up to meeting Mr Dylan; I canât remember if the meeting did or didnât happen, Iâm afraid. What
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