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Article: Bob Dylan's heart. (premature obituaries)(Column)
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- Interview
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- August 1, 1997
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I was in England in late May, trying to get people to read a book about Bob Dylan's 1967 basement tapes recordings, when the story that Dylan might be near death from a rare heart ailment hit the papers. The queer thing about the news was the seeming eagerness with which it was reported. You could almost hear a sigh of relief: "My liege, I bring great news - the '60s are over! Finally, we can close the book!"
You might figure that if the era wasn't over by 1997, it never would be. That didn't explain why what should have been straight news - diagnostic reports, information on the cancellation of Dylan's then-imminent U.K. and European tours - was freighted with ...