Perhaps Dylan's greatest impact was to get the Beatles out of writing pop tunes, wonderful as they were, and into their own depths.

To marry pop culture, folk music, protest songs, Rimbaud, Brecht, etc, together gave a weight to popular music and its attendant culture that it has never since lost. Whether this is an unalloyed good is still an open question; but that it happened is due to that whole group of people, at the core of which was Dylan.

yours,

Peter T.