People: Aug. 18, 1986

The times, they have been achangin', just as he said they would 23 years ago. This summer the Woodstock generation met the yuppie generation, as people who grew up with Bob Dylan and those barely out of their teens crowded into arenas, stadiums and concert halls across the country for the raspy-voiced troubadour's True Confessions show. By the time the tour ended last week, an estimated 1 million people had heard him and Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers perform nearly a quarter-century of Dylan's songs, from the vintage Masters of War through the rock anthem Like a Rolling Stone. Now fans will have to be content with his new album, Knocked Out Loaded, in which the freewheeling bluesand gospel-flavored numbers evoke the rowdy, roadhouse Dylan of a decade ago. The opening verse of one song sums up a career of confounded expectations: "Don't ever try to change me, I've been indistinct too long."