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25/08/2006

Guardian’s Modern Times review slammed

Thanks to Andy Miller:

“I've just sent this to The Guardian (letters page):

“Re: For the love of Bob - Alex Petridis, page 9, Rock and Pop reviews 25/8/06

“Alexis Petridis' mean spirited review of Bob Dylan's new album 'Modern Times' talks about 'the mania that greets his every action' and 'middle-aged critics swooning with awe' over 'Dylan's catarrhal death rattle'. Oh, and some more on those deranged obsessives called fans.

“The day before, in the Daily Telegraph, Neil McCormick describes the album as deriving from '... a great artist fully absorbed with his work and the wider world, in love with humanity and disgusted by it, fearful for the future but strong enough to face it'.

“The Daily Telegraph? The Guardian?

“ "I'm wondering what in the devil could it all possibly mean" - Dylan, B. (1997) from 'Highlands' verse 5 (of 20), line 4, 11th (and final) track on 43rd album 'Time Out of Mind' recorded at etc etc..."

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