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The Freewheelin' prime minister: our leader's Bob Dylan moment

Why are David Cameron and his wife copying Dylan's classic album cover?Things must be getting serious in the Conservative Party's PR pod. As the Labour leader steals the "one nation" Toryism of Benjamin Disraeli the architects of this photograph have made their own daring leap in the dark to pose David Cameron as Bob Dylan on the cover of his radical 1963 record The Freewheelin' David Cameron, sorry, The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan.At first glance this soft-lit urban romantic scene, with the Camerons...

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12:21 on October 10 2012

The Freewheelin' prime minister: our leader's Bob Dylan moment

Guardian Music — Why are David Cameron and his wife copying Dylan's classic album cover?Things must be getting serious in the Conservative Party's PR pod. As the Labour leader steals the ... more info

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12:37 on October 10 2012

Deconstructed: David Cameron's Bob Dylan moment

Guardian Music — Jonathan Jones: What subtle messages about our leader are his PR people trying to give us with this photograph, taken in Birmingham on Tuesday night?Jonathan Jones more info

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