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Dylan songs for life

Simon Evans

My introduction to Bob Dylan came via a rather circuitous route, Simon and Garfunkel’s debut album Wednesday Morning 3AM, which contained a breezy cover version of the maestro’s The Times They Are A Changin’.

S&G had been my first musical hot date, and I was in the process of accumulating all the duo’s albums but, even filtered through their clean-cut harmonies, this felt different. I noticed from the sleeve that the song had been written by one B Dylan and, suitably intrigued, requested the album of the same name that I’d seen in the record racks of our local Boots (who, you may remember, sold records in those

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