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The Poet Laureate of Rock ’n’ Roll: A look at Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan at the 17th Annual Critics' Choice Movie Awards
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Bob Dylan onstage (with guitarist Charlie Sexton) in 2012.

Bob Dylan turned 85 years old in May. His first album, 1962’s Bob Dylan, is in its 65th year on record store shelves.

We’re at a point where, for most of us, there has simply never been a popular culture in which Dylan wasn’t a towering figure whose influence seems to touch, well, everything.

This hour, a look at Bob Dylan at 85.

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