For 45 years, she was known as the woman clinging to a young Bob Dylan's arm on a legendary album cover. Today: Suze Rotolo talks about being Dylan's muse and shares her memoir about Greenwich Village in the 1960s. Later: operatic bass Hao Jiang Tian came of age during China's Cultural Revolution. He talks about his remarkable journey from a factory floor to the Metropolitan Opera stage.
Suze Rotolo
When they lived in Greenwich Village in 1961 they were cherub-cheeked kids. She was 17, came by subway from Queens and was called Suze Rotolo. He was 20, came from Minnesota and was called Bob Dylan. Almost 50 years later, Suze finally wrote a memoir of her life next to ...
Journey From East to West
The Chinese-born operatic bass Hao Jiang Tian worked in a factory as a teenager, yet also was able to develop as a singer during the Cultural Revolution. Today, he is a regular fixture at the Metropolitan Opera, where he recently sang in a production of Tan Dun’s "The First Emperor." ...
History in the Making
Usually you don’t realize you’re witnessing history until time has past and events have become historic. (There are obvious exceptions.) Suze Rotolo couldn’t have known she was witnessing history when her boyfriend, a young folksinger named Bob Dylan, got a good review in the New York Times. And she certainly ...