My own thoughts on Dylan are that while I mostly like only what he did in the first decade of his career, maybe less, it hasn't much to do with 'going electric' as I loved Blonde and Blonde.

But Dylan's pulling power was brought home to me after I decided to run a few items at my tinpot music site Salut! Live in the build-up to, and on the day of, his 80th. I've just totted up the hits and they total 3,300 since the start of last week. No great shakes but double or treble the readership in a similar period at almost any other time.

I'm grateful that several hundred of them are accounted for by a piece on Martin Carthy's similar milestone birthday.