Bob Dylan at the Royal Albert Hall: the best he’s been in years

There’s a tacit expectation that Dylan really sounds quite bad on stage these days , and he does n’t .

There is no teleprompt, and no slip-ups; he is a poet, after all.

A version of his eternal band is still going, and they lock into set parts.

The end is signalled by a certain formalism to his music these days .

At Christmas , Timothée Chalamet will play Dylan in A Complete Unknown , the biopic all about the time that he went electric.

While he may be saying goodbye, albeit slowly, he recently said hello, getting familiar with X for the first time, reviewing local restaurants and wishing unknown people happy birthday”.