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Article: Musical Notes: Bob Dylan - younger than that now
- Article from:
- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- December 7, 1999
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IN THE late 1960s, until he began to de-construct himself with
Nashville Skyline, Bob Dylan was still the hippest person on the
planet. In 1978, after the superlative Blood on the Tracks and the
best-selling Desire, Dylan toured Europe for the first time in 12
years, and was received rapturously by enormous audiences and by
reviewers, while his Top Ten hit "Baby, Stop Crying" (he's never had
one since) was on jukeboxes everywhere. Eleven years later Dylan
finally managed a near-great album for the 1980s, Oh Mercy, once more
receiving critical and popular approbation, topped by a triumphant,
magical series of concerts at Hammersmith.