Bob Dylan writes amazing songs, but they are not literature.

[Thomas Eckhardt]

"Chronicles" is great.

As for "Play it f*cking loud" (German pedant alert) -- did Dylan say 
this at Newport at well? He definitely did in Manchester after he was 
called "Judas" by some heckler:

http://www.downvids.net/bob-dylan-like-a-rolling-stone-live-in-the-manchester-free-trade-hall-1966--841232.html

> I was overjoyed......and ended up peeking thru the
> keyhole down upon my news
> while I shouted "Play it F*cking Louder, Academy" (Dylan, going
> electric, turning to his band after boos at Newport '65)
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