“If you don’t like Bringing It All Back Home, you don’t like music. You should hand your ears back.” Bob Dylan’s game-changing album is 60 today and still astonishing

Detail from the album cover of Bob Dylan's Bringing It All Back home.

When I was a student I had a very posh and opinionated English tutor. Once we were doing Jane Austen’s Persuasion and he said, out of the blue: “If you don’t like Jane Austen, you don’t like reading.”

I laughed out loud. I hated Jane Austen and I hadn’t read Persuasion, fuck that.