We need sages like Dylan, especially now

At 80, Bob Dylan still has something to say. — Tribune News Service

IN his latest documentary, 1971: The Year That Music Changed Everything, the British filmmaker Asif Kapadia marks the 50th anniversary of a purported annus mirabilis for Western popular music.

There’s plenty of evidence for that, which makes it all the more remarkable that barely a peep was heard from the previous decade’s designated “spokesman for his generation”.