It's Dr. Bob Dylan now. Though he is the most reclusive figure in rock today, Dylan showed up at Princeton University last week to receive an honorary doctorate "as one of the most creative popular musicians of the last decade." Dylan did not make a speech. He did not have to. His personal summing up was about to come out on a two-LP album (Columbia) appropriately entitled Self Portrait. For a man who charged his way through the 1960s like an Orpheus in Hades, the Dylan of Self Portrait is in an astonishingly contemplative...
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