Yet if you were to break his career into a glib narrative by decade, it would go something like this: in the ’60s, young Dylan was on fire, the folk rock visionary who changed popular music; in the ’70s, after a period of retreat, his work deepened and darkened; in the ’80s, he became a proselytising born again Christian, making stylistically awkward albums out of touch with his fans and his talent; in the ’90s he recovered his mojo, digging into the fertile ground of retro musical forms that carried him through the 21st Century like a gnarled old firebrand, with one critically acclaimed album following another. (A new one, Shadows In The Night, is rumoured to be coming in August)