“Your sons and your daughters are beyond your command.” That was the line that made me believe in Bob Dylan. That steely twang held more contempt than any pop singer I’d ever heard. Dad could stand aside like a hung carcass. We kids had this. Dylan turns 80 on May 24. A terrible thing for any enfant, and as worrying as an aged parent to those of us whose world he lit. God, what if we lose him?
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Dylan’s latest album, Rough and Rowdy Ways, released in June last year, is as good as anything he’s done before, writes Michael Dwyer.