Personal life Bob Dylan

1 personal life

1.1 romantic relationships

1.1.1 suze rotolo
1.1.2 joan baez
1.1.3 sara dylan
1.1.4 carolyn dennis


1.2 home
1.3 religious beliefs

personal life
romantic relationships
suze rotolo

dylan s first serious relationship artist suze rotolo, daughter of american communist party radicals. according dylan, erotic thing d ever seen... air filled banana leaves. started talking , head started spin. rotolo photographed arm-in-arm dylan on cover of album freewheelin bob dylan. critics have connected rotolo of dylan s love songs, including don t think twice s right . relationship ended in 1964. in 2008, rotolo published memoir life in greenwich village , relationship dylan in 1960s, freewheelin time.

joan baez

when joan baez first met dylan in april 1961, had released first album , acclaimed queen of folk . on hearing dylan perform song god on our side, baez later said, never thought powerful come out of little toad . in july 1963, baez invited dylan join on stage @ newport folk festival, setting scene similar duets on next 2 years. time of dylan s 1965 tour of u.k, romantic relationship had begun fizzle out, captured in d. a. pennebaker s documentary film dont back. baez later toured dylan performer on rolling thunder revue in 1975–76, , sang 4 songs dylan on live album of tour, bob dylan live 1975, rolling thunder revue. baez appeared dylan in one-hour tv special hard rain, filmed @ fort collins, colorado, in may 1976. baez starred woman in white in film renaldo , clara (1978), directed dylan , filmed during rolling thunder revue. dylan , baez toured again in 1984 carlos santana.

baez recalled relationship dylan in martin scorsese s documentary film no direction home (2005). baez wrote dylan in 2 autobiographies—admiringly in daybreak (1968), , less admiringly in , voice sing (1987). baez s relationship dylan subject of song diamonds & rust , has been described acute portrait of dylan.

sara dylan

dylan married sara lownds, had worked model , secretary drew associates, on november 22, 1965. first child, jesse byron dylan, born on january 6, 1966, , had 3 more children: anna lea (born july 11, 1967), samuel isaac abram (born july 30, 1968), , jakob luke (born december 9, 1969). dylan adopted sara s daughter prior marriage, maria lownds (later dylan, born october 21, 1961). sara dylan played role of clara in dylan s film renaldo , clara (1978). bob , sara dylan divorced on june 29, 1977.

maria married musician peter himmelman in 1988. in 1990s, jakob became known lead singer of band wallflowers; jesse film director , successful businessman.

carolyn dennis

dylan married backup singer carolyn dennis (often professionally known carol dennis) on june 4, 1986. desiree gabrielle dennis-dylan, daughter had been born on january 31, 1986. couple divorced in october 1992. marriage , child remained closely guarded secret until publication of howard sounes biography, down highway: life of bob dylan, in 2001.

home

when not touring, dylan believed live in point dume, promontory on coast of malibu, california, though owns property around world.

religious beliefs

growing in hibbing, minnesota, dylan , family part of area s small close-knit jewish community, , in may 1954 dylan had bar mitzvah. around time of 30th birthday, in 1971, dylan visited israel, , met rabbi meir kahane, founder of new york-based jewish defense league. time magazine quoted him saying kahane, s sincere guy. s put together. subsequently, dylan downplayed extent of contact kahane.

dylan performs in ahoy rotterdam, netherlands, june 4, 1984

during late 1970s, dylan converted christianity. in november 1978, guided friend mary alice artes, dylan made contact vineyard school of discipleship. vineyard pastor kenn gulliksen has recalled: larry myers , paul emond went on bob s house , ministered him. responded saying, yes did in fact want christ in life. , prayed day , received lord. january march 1979, dylan attended vineyard bible study classes in reseda, california.

by 1984, dylan distancing himself born again label. told kurt loder of rolling stone magazine: ve never said m born again. s media term. don t think ve been agnostic. ve thought there s superior power, not real world , there s world come. in response loder s asking whether belonged church or synagogue, dylan laughingly replied, not really. uh, church of poison mind. in 1997, told david gates of newsweek:

here s thing me , religious thing. flat-out truth: find religiosity , philosophy in music. don t find anywhere else. songs let me rest on peaceful mountain or saw light —that s religion. don t adhere rabbis, preachers, evangelists, of that. ve learned more songs ve learned of kind of entity. songs lexicon. believe songs.

in interview published in new york times on september 28, 1997, journalist jon pareles reported dylan says subscribes no organized religion.

dylan has supported chabad lubavitch movement, , has privately participated in jewish religious events, including bar mitzvahs of sons , attending hadar hatorah, chabad lubavitch yeshiva. in september 1989 , september 1991, appeared on chabad telethon. on yom kippur in 2007 attended congregation beth tefillah, in atlanta, georgia, called torah sixth aliyah.

dylan has continued perform songs gospel albums in concert, covering traditional religious songs. has made passing references religious faith—such in 2004 interview 60 minutes, when told ed bradley person have think twice lying either or god. explained constant touring schedule part of bargain made long time ago chief commander—in earth , in world can t see.

in 2009 interview bill flanagan promoting dylan s christmas lp, christmas in heart, flanagan commented on heroic performance dylan gave of o little town of bethlehem , delivered song true believer . dylan replied: well, true believer.