https://youtu.be/0rs3jCuC1Jw Bob Dylan – The Freewheelin (FULL ALBUM)
Susan Elizabeth Rotolo (November 20, 1943 – February 25, 2011),[1] known as Suze Rotolo (/ˈsuːziː/ SOO-zee),[2] was an American artist, widely known as Bob Dylan’s girlfriend from 1961 to 1964. Dylan later acknowledged her strong influence on his music and art during that period. Rotolo is the woman walking with him on the cover of his 1963 album The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan, a photograph by the Columbia Records studio photographer Don Hunstein.[3][4] In her book A Freewheelin’ Time: A Memoir of Greenwich Village in the Sixties, Rotolo described her time with Dylan and other figures in the folk music and bohemian scene in Greenwich Village, New York. She discussed her upbringing as a “red diaper” baby; a child of Communist Party USA members during the McCarthy Era.[5] As an artist, she specialized in artists’ books and taught at the Parsons School of Design in New York City.[6]
in 1967.[13] Together they had one son, Luca, who is a guitarist in New York.[1] In New York, Rotolo worked as an illustrator and painter, before concentrating on creating book art, things resembling books but incorporating found objects. Remaining politically active, Rotolo joined the street-theater group Billionaires for Bush and protested at the 2004 Republican National Convention in Manhattan.[3]
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Suze Rotolo Interview: Of Bob Dylan, New York and Art
Rotolo avoided discussing her relationship with Dylan for decades. In July 2004, she was interviewed in a documentary produced by New York PBS Channel 13 and The New York Daily News. In November 2004, she made an unannounced appearance at the Experience Music Project, on a panel discussing Dylan’s early days in Greenwich Village. She and her husband also were involved in putting on a memorial event for Dave Van Ronk after the singer’s death in 2002. Rotolo made an appearance in Martin Scorsese’s documentary film, No Direction Home: Bob Dylan, which focused on Dylan’s early career from 1961 to 1966. This film was broadcast as part of the American Masters series on PBS public television in September 2005. Rotolo was also interviewed nationally in 2008 by Terry Gross on NPR’s Fresh Air to promote her book, A Freewheelin’ Time: A Memoir of Greenwich Village in the Sixties,[6] which was published by Broadway Books on May 13, 2008. Rotolo recounted her attempts not to be overshadowed by her relationship with Dylan. She discussed her need to pursue her artistic creativity and to retain her political integrity, concluding:
The sixties were an era that spoke a language of inquiry and curiosity and rebelliousness against the stifling and repressive political and social culture of the decade that preceded it. The new generation causing all the fuss was not driven by the market: we had something to say, not something to sell.”[24]
The image of Rotolo walking with Dylan on the cover of The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan proved impossible to shake off, but equally difficult to accept. The New York Times, reviewing her book, observed that[7]
https://youtu.be/fLHGLLpb__c A Freewheelin’ Time: A Memoir of Greenwich Village in the Sixties by Suze Rotolo Even 40 years later, she seems uncomfortable delving into her time with Dylan. Perhaps an inherent contradiction is the problem: she’s writing about her unwillingness to be defined by her relationship to a famous man, in a book with Dylan on the cover.[7] https://youtu.be/AnE9KyomyJs Susan Elizabeth Rotolo, known as Suze Rotolo, was an American artist, and the girlfriend of Bob Dylan from 1961 to 1964. Dylan later acknowledged her strong influence on his music and art during that period. Rotolo is the woman walking with him on the cover of his album The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan, a photograph by the CBS studio photographer, Don Hunstein. In her book, A Freewheelin’ Time: A Memoir of Greenwich Village in the Sixties, Rotolo described her time with Dylan and other figures in the folk music and bohemian scene in Greenwich Village, New York. She discussed her upbringing as a “red diaper” baby—a child of Communist Party USA members during the McCarthy Era. As an artist, she specialized in artists’ books and taught at the Parsons School of Design in New York City.
The Guardian, too, notes that Rotolo is defined as “the girl with the wistful eyes and hint of a smile whose head is resting on the suede-jacketed shoulder of a nice-looking young man as they trudge through the snow on the cover of 1963’s The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan.” The review agrees with the New York Times’s comment (“a disconnected list”) that the book is “oddly organised”, but at once adds “though not as random as it seems”.[8] Nathalie Rothschild, writing in The Guardian after Rotolo’s death, noted that Rotolo had worked hard to escape the epithets of “Bob Dylan’s muse” and “the girl on the front cover of The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan”, insisting in her memoir that she had been more than “a string on Dylan’s guitar”.[9]
Bob Dylan’s lyrical muse Suze Rotolo dies at 67
Rotolo died of lung cancer at her home in New York City’s NoHo neighborhood on February 25, 2011, aged 67.[3][25][26]
Film portrayals In the 2007 film I’m Not There, a fictional account of Bob Dylan’s life, there is a version of Rotolo’s relationship with Dylan.[27] Heath Ledger plays Robbie Clark, one of six Dylan-based characters in the film. Charlotte Gainsbourg plays Claire, the wife of Robbie. This character has been described as a combination of Sara Dylan, Dylan’s first wife, and Suze Rotolo. In the film, Robbie meets Claire in a Greenwich Village diner and they fall in love. The scene in which Robbie and Claire run romantically through the streets of New York re-enacts the cover of the 1963 album The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan.[27] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suze_Rotolo
In the 2024 biographical film A Complete Unknown, Sylvie Russo, a fictional version of Rotolo, is played by Elle Fanning.[28] Dylan requested that the film not use Rotolo’s real name.[29][30] Angie Martoccio of Rolling Stone described the Russo character as “Rotolo in all but name”.[31]
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