One night in the spring of 2001, Jann S. Wenner visited Bob Dylan backstage. The two men had known each other since the late Sixties, but even so, Dylan's greeting was a bit familiar – he began patting Wenner down, rooting around for something in his jacket. "I said, 'Bob, what are you doing?' " Wenner remembers. "He said, 'I'm looking for that extra star. What pocket have you got it
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