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Drxx - stopped submitting a few years back. Did manage to see yer man in Sheffield in 1965, then in Nottingham in 2011.

I haven't sent them in for a very long time, but I archive them (whether they're right or wrong).
I saw him at the NEC Birmingham in the '80s and M'chester Apollo in the early 90's but nothing as early as your '65 concert (just about everyone else at that time, though... except The Beatles).

Drxx. - likewise, archived and fully parsed. All the big names - the Who at my graduation, Black Sabbath at my wife’s - in the 60s of course but not the Beatles. Glad we saw Jeff Beck a few years back - our favourite guitarist.

I regret missing The Beatles (misplaced snobbery on my part}.

Drxx - more an age thing for us with the Beatles. Undergrads were Stones, Who, Pink Floyd or American blues orientated.
But they finally made it with Sergeant Pepper.

Excellent set of clues in this one - early puzzle of the year contender? Certainly a nice way to end the quarter before next week's numerical.

I must admit to being slightly baffled as to what is expected for submission. I'm tempted to submit a smiley sobbing. I also have to add that I did not particularly enjoy this puzzle as the subject matter is far from a favourite of mine and kind of introduced a monotonous theme to all of the clues.

Takes me back...
first aware of Dylan when Eric Winter (editor of Sing played his advance review copy of what must have been the first album Bob Dylan to some of us from the St Lawrence Soc. in Cambridge in 1962 - "What do you think of this, then?" - but my strong memory is of numbers from Freewheelin' which didn't come out until '63 - so not unusually my chronology is confused. One of us had heard Bob sing Blowin' in the Wind in 'Madhouse on Castle Street' (a BBC TV play he came over to London to act and play in, Dec 1962) - and John performed it to us from memory - he couldn't remember the name of the performer at that time - but we instantly recognised it later.

Our initial reaction to the raspy voice and eccentric harmonica which were unlike anything we'd heard before was that this was a musical charlatan......then we listened to the words...

The recent Black Buffalo metalwork ain't bad either - but sells at 40 times what I could get for it - like hot cakes...

I saw our man at the NEC in the 80`s and more recently at the MEN arena in Manchester. I count myself as a fan, but was hugely disappointed both times.

However, I found this puzzle the most entertaining of the year so far. A brilliant set of clues, in my opinion. Thanks Twin.