Bob Dylan's Muse and 'Freewheelin' ' Cover Star Suze Rotolo Dead at 67

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Suze Rotolo, Bob Dylan's longtime girlfriend during his fledgling days as a Greenwich Village folk singer and the woman who appears alongside him on the famous cover of "The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan," passed away this weekend at her home in Manhattan following a long illness, Rolling Stone reports. Rotolo was 67.

In addition to forever being captured on the Don Hunstein-photographed "Freewheelin' " cover, Rotolo's three-year relationship with Dylan, from 1961 to 1964, also inspired him to write three of his early love songs, "Don't Think Twice, It's Alright," "Tomorrow is a Long Time," and "Boots of Spanish Leather." (Dylan's breakup with Rotolo also influenced one of his most vitriolic tunes, "Ballad in Plain D," a song Dylan later regretted recording.) Rotolo is also acknowledged for pushing Dylan toward the political awareness that flavored his Greenwich Village work

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[Rocko]

Dylan bump.

[PUGACHEV]

Although I lived through them, those times seem so distant from me today that it’s almost as if they happend on a different planet.

[beebuster2000]

awesome. the vid of dont think twice at the link is worth listening to

[scott says]

Dylan Ping

[pissant]

He certainly got an upgrade with Sara. But RIP Suze.

[SamAdams76]

This is an alternate shot of that photo-shoot...Dylan was barely 22 at the time and Suze probably just shy of 20.

[Bosco]

Her parents were commies. Figures.

[CaptainK]

According to her autobiography, Rotolo became pregnant in 1963 by Dylan and had an abortion

What a muse! What a love story! /sarc

[Revolting cat!]

IBDCSP (In Before Dylan Cain’t Sing Posts!)

[Lancey Howard]

Suze was born November 1943 and Freewheelin’ was released in May 1963. So, she was likely 19 at the time of the cover shoot (18 if it was done prior to November 1962). The pictures look kind of Autumnish/Winterish, so it’s hard to tell.

[Revolting cat!]

She’ll be missed.

[wideawake]

So is the child she murdered 48 years ago.

[vladimir998]

She will?

Never heard of her.

[NorthStarStateConservative]

Notice all of these Hollywood free love drug using stars are dying relatively young in this age of advanced medical treatment?

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Ping of interest Phil

[dragnet2]

So is the child she murdered 48 years ago.

What are we to do? Let her maker judge her in the afterlife, or watch you cast stones and scorn on her grave?

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If they did headline at Porky’s I probably do not know about them -

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[potlatch]

Lol, maybe Dylan never heard of Porky’s.
I see Jane Russell died