Sara Dylan
Sara Dylan ( born October 28, 1939 in Wilmington, Delaware as Shirley Marlin Noznisky or Novoletsky ), first wife Sara Lowndes, was from November 1965 to June 1977, the first wife of Bob Dylan and is the mother of the director and the singer Jesse James Dylan.
Biography
Childhood and youth
About Sara Dylan's youth and family little is known. It was under the name Shirley Nozinsky (or Beatty Zimmermann: Noveletsky ) was born in Wilmington on October 28, 1939. Her parents were Bessie and Isaac Nozinsky. Her mother Bessie had a stroke, as Shirley was still a child, so that her great-aunt Esther had to take care of the family. Her father, according to Al Aronowitz, a scrap dealer, was shot in 1956 during a robbery. Five years later, her mother died.
Shirley worked as a model, actress, a waitress at a Playboy Club in film production and for Time magazine. At the request of her first husband, the magazine photographer Hans Lowndes, she changed her name from Shirley to Sara, because it wanted to be married with no " Shirley ". According to Peter Lowndes, her future stepson, Sara met then the end of 1962 in Greenwich Village on Bob Dylan, as it just so went with her MG sports cars through the area. This meeting was also been the reason for the separation of Hans Lowndes. She had at that time probably only a vague idea of who Dylan was and certainly was not a fan of his music. Nevertheless, she put Bob Dylan and his manager Albert Grossman, the documentary filmmaker DA Pennebaker link that would later make the film Do not Look Back on Dylan's tour of England in 1965.
Marriage to Bob Dylan
Shortly after Sara met Dylan Aronowitz 've already told you that he intended to marry her. The couple had several romantic dates in late 1964; a short time later they rented to different rooms in New York's Chelsea Hotel to be near each other. Dylan entertained at times even romantic relationships with Joan Baez and Edie Sedgwick, while he and Lowndes already forged marriage plans - possibly until just before or even up to her wedding day.
The couple were married on 22 November 1965 in a secret ceremony held during a break from touring. The marriage was consummated under an oak tree on a court premises in Long Iceland. The only participants except the couple were Albert Grossman and a bridesmaid for Sara. The marriage of the two remained a mystery even for some of Dylan's closest friends for months, until the press found out about it.
From her marriage to Bob Dylan three sons and a daughter were born: Jesse, Anna, Samuel, and Jacob, the youngest of the siblings, who became known as the lead singer of the band The Wallflowers. Sara's daughter Mary from his first marriage was adopted by Bob to also give her last name Dylan - the only family member but do not keep him on. According to Dylan biographer Howard Sounes the Dylan also initiated a trust fund so that their children would never have to work, unless they wish to do so. Friends and family described Sara as a good and loving mother who shunned the limelight. Her only public appearance after marriage with Dylan was in the role of Clara in his film Renaldo and Clara movie, which was filmed during the Rolling Thunder Revue tour (1975 /76).
The marriage of the two was launched in April 1974 in the breaks when Bob Dylan began to show art classes at Norman Räben, a 73 - year-old Russian immigrant and former boxer who was a close friend of Soutine, Picasso and Modigliani, according to Dylan. Raebens teaching methods have changed to Bob's thoughts fundamentally, so that he later said in an interview: "I went to that first day home and from that day did not understand my wife. At that time our marriage began to break down. You never understood what I was talking about what I thought, and I could not even explain it. "
The divorce was finalized on June 29, 1977. Tensions between the two have talked about for several years at the two, however, seemed to change; in any event, should both have 1983 even thought of a recent marriage. A circa 1982 by Sara in Jerusalem been shot during the Bar Mitzvah celebration of her son's photo of Bob Dylan was later featured on the cover of his album Infidels. In his autobiography published in 2004, " Chronicles: Volume One " recalls Bob Dylan Sara as "one of the loveliest creatures of the world of women ."
Sara Dylan in the songs of Bob Dylan
Sara inspired Bob Dylan to multiple songs, at least two apparently directly:
- Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands (Album: Blonde on Blonde )
- Sara (Album: Desire )
The latter represented a reconciliation attempt with Sarah after the alienation of the two in 1975 is:
"I can hear the quiet sound of the Methodist bells, I had taken the cure and had just gotten through, staying up for days in the Chelsea Hotel, writing Sad Eyed Lady Of The Lowlands for you"
Bob Dylan's album Blood on the Tracks (1975 ) is generally regarded as the most inspired by Sara go but many fans believe that the songs on this album relate to the couple. The album was recorded at the beginning of their divorce phase. Clinton Heylin, Dylan's biographer, however, assumes that Sarah's influence was often overestimated on the lyrical content of this album. Even Dylan himself denied the time of publication of the album that Blood on the Tracks was autobiographical. Jacob, the son of the two, expressed, however, that the songs were the talks of his parents. Heylin also reported that Bob Dylan circa 1977 inspired by her final divorce a whole album of songs wrote that he only private to selected friends played and to this day does not record nor played live.
Critics assume that Sara addition to Blonde on Blonde, Blood on the Tracks and Desire, individual songs of the albums Bringing It All Back Home, Nashville Skyline, New Morning, Planet Waves and Street Legal has inspired. These pieces include Isis, We Better Talk This Over, Abandoned Love, Down Along the Cove, Wedding Song, On a Night Like This, Somethin There Is About You, I'll Be Your Baby Tonight, To Be Alone With You, If Not For You, Where Are You Tonight? ( Journey Through Dark Heat ) and Love Minus Zero / No Limit.
Pop culture
A fictional representation of their marriage - and Dylan's relationship with Suze Rotolo - was told in the biopic I'm Not There Heath Ledger and Charlotte Gainsbourg.