2005 was a triumphant year for Bob Dylan. The man famously dubbed as the ‘voice of a generation’ (the sixties for those who weren’t there) has been as omnipresent as the Messiah some believed him to be. As David Smyth wrote earlier this year in the London Evening Standard: ‘You would be forgiven for thinking that Bob Dylan had recently passed on, such is the weight of tributes and retrospectives currently bearing down from all sides.’
As well as the standard fare of rehashed bootlegs, this year saw the much-anticipated release of a new album (Live at the Gaslight 1962) and DVD (No Direction Home), and to cap it off, November saw an auction of verse written by the American Bard.
