GOLDEN OLDIES

MARK ELLEN

DYLAN'S MUSE I've got a theory. There would have been no folk protest movement, political edge to rock music, Concert for Bangladesh or Live Aid, had it not been for one person. And it's not Bob Dylan. It's his old girlfriend Suze Rotolo. You'll know her – the flame-haired teenager on his arm on the cover of The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan as they tramp through New York's West Village in the snow. She's now back in the frame again as one of the key figures in A Complete Unknown, the winning new biopic about his breakthrough in the early '60s. Bob comes across – and fairly – as a rude but charming, self-obsessed and manipulative fame-seeker forgiven for his catalogue of abrasive faults on account of the luminous brilliance of…

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The Oldie (Digital) - 1 Issue, April 2025

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