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When Dylan’s 1966 tour hit the British Isles, a hostile press had the knives out from the first. Uncut scours the archives to reconstruct how it all went down in real time

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MR Oliver Tait?” the policeman said as he and his companion were shown into the charming sitting-room of a suave man in his thirties or thereabouts. “I’m Detective Inspector Wragge and this is WPC Moo