Robyn Hitchcock (Interview)

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“I guess I swapped my parents and my family for Bob Dylan ,” says Robyn Hitchcock , remembering an evolutionary moment in his creative journey. “I just heard “Like a Rolling Stone” every day for two months as I was going into my teens, it was my kind of bar mitzvah really. My molecular structure was changed over the course of 18 months and by the end of 1967 when I had gone through the change, and I was like a sort of skinny, dark haired version of what I am now I was writing the lyrics and I’d got a guitar. My parents, for their sins, gave me a cheap acoustic guitar. I just took it everywhere with me like a few years earlier I would have taken my little panda teddy bear. I would always go…