Another Side of Bob Dylan

Photo by Dylan_41Bill Hayward.                                                              

Bill Hayward recalls that "the Dylan portrait session was for Andy Warhol’s Interview Magazine and took place on November, 14, 1985..at my studio in Soho, 596 Broadway":

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The title of the article was "A few things about Bob Dylan as told to Scott Cohen." The article consisted of Bob’s answers to such questions as:

Three Authors I’d Read Anything By…Tacitus, Chekhov, Tolstoy

Dozen Influential Records…"Lady’s Man," Hank Snow; "lucille," Little Richard; "High Lonesome Sound," Roscoe Holcomb; "Tom Joad," Woody Guthrie; "Mystery Train," Elvis Prestley; "Not Fade Away," Buddy Holly; "Molly and Tenbrooks," Bill Monroe; "Get Back," Big Bill Broonzy; "Chauffer Blues," Memphis Minnie; "Riding On Train 45," the Delmore Brothers; "Ida Red," the Smokey Mountain Boys; "Pictures From Life’s Other Side," Hank Williams.

The Best Cure for the Blues : "Ginger Root"

Events I Wish I had Witnessed: "Custer’s Last Stand, Hannibal crossing the Alps, Lindbergh landing in Paris, Houdini on the East River."

Five Bands I wish I had been in: "King Oliver Band, The Memphis Jug Band, Muddy Waters Chicago Band (with Little Walter and Otis Span). The Country Gentlemen, Crosby Stills & Nash."

Several Things Still Blowin’ In The Wind: Three Little Pigs, The wages of sin, Lester Young’s horn solo on ‘When Budda Smiles’."

A Threesome I’d Like to Play Golf With: "Paul Gauguin, Lee Iacocca, Edward Teller. "