Bob Dylan
and Suze Rotolo
1963
Right now, I'm watching CBS Sunday Morning, a delightfully heartwarming program hosted by the grandfatherly Charles Osgood that I never get to watch because I'm always asleep at this early hour of 10am. They just showed a segment on two ex-rock-stars' girlfriends: Suze Rotolo, Bob Dylan's girlfriend for four years at the very beginning of his break into fame, and May Pang, John Lennon's mistress during his split from Yoko Ono. I was particularly moved by the interview with Suze Rotolo. The pictures of she and Dylan together--smoking cigarettes, holding each other on the sidewalk, lying beside each other in bed--were so darling, and strangely reminiscent of something, something antique and beautiful. She was a gorgeous young woman, as you can see from The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan album cover, and he was a skinny, smooth-faced boy with normal hair. Looking at the way they grin at one another in these fuzzy black and white photographs makes me wonder about my own friends--who I'm closest to, which of them I truly love--and which I'll go down in history with, if any. Many years from now, I hope to God I get to gaze at some shoebox photographs, point at someone as young as I am writing this and say, He changed my life.
Check out the text of the segment here.
Nostagically yours,
Kim
