The seven ages of Bob Dylan

'You've been with the professors / And they've all liked your looks... / something is happening here / But you don't know what it is / Do you, Mister Jones?' ('Ballad of a Thin Man'). Dylan's distrust of academic pretensions won't discourage those at 'The Seven Ages of Dylan', a one-day conference at Bristol University on May 24 celebrating the 70th birthday of the elusive RA Zimmerman of Hibbing, Minnesota.

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