Suze Rotolo / The girl on the cover of the album The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan

The cover for the album 'The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan', released by Columbia Records in 1963,
featuring Suze Rotolo and the Dylan walking in Greenwich Village.Photo by Don Hunstein

The girl on the cover of the album The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan

Suze Rotolo obituary

Artist, activist and Bob Dylan's muse who resisted the role of handmaiden

Richard Williams
Monday 28 February 2011 19.21 GMT

BOB DYLAN'S BIOGRAPHY

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Suze Rotolo / La musa del joven Dylan
Suze Rotolo / Tomorrow is long time

Suze Rotolo, l’italiana di «The Freewheelin’» che fece perdere la testa a Bob Dylan

Suze Rotolo was the girl on the cover of the album The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan – a long-haired 19-year-old strolling down a snow-covered Greenwich Village street on the arm of a 21-year-old folk singer whose words and music would shortly be affecting the worldview of a generation. Rotolo, who has died of lung cancer, aged 67, was destined to become part of the Dylan legend: the girlfriend who inspired some of his finest early songs, including Boots of Spanish Leather, One Too Many Mornings, Tomorrow Is a Long Time and Don't Think Twice, It's All Right.

Suze Rotolo / Tomorrow is a long time

Suze Rotolo

Tomorrow is a long time

Suze Rotolo was just 17 when she fell in love with Bob Dylan, who found her 'the most erotic thing' he'd ever seen. Through the photograph on his Freewheelin' album cover, they came to embody the ideal of the carefree 60s couple. Finally, she is telling her story. Richard Williams met her in New York's East Village

Richard Williams
Saturday 16 August 2008 00.01 BST

BOB DYLAN'S BIOGRAPHY

Triunfo Arciniegas / Diario / Suze
Suze Rotolo / La musa del joven Dylan

Suze Rotolo / The girl on the cover of the album The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan
Suze Rotolo, l’italiana di «The Freewheelin’» che fece perdere la testa a Bob Dylan

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n a Greenwich Village bookstore, a window is filled with a poster that replays a familiar image. A boy and girl are walking down a snow-covered street, arm in arm, lost in some private paradise. He is hunched against the cold. Their heads are together. She is laughing. The photograph was taken 45 years ago, a stone's throw from where the shop stands. It went around the world, touching countless young lives. And now it has come back home.