Dylan Muse Suze Rotolo Dies
The girl who inspired some of Dylan\'s greatest work passes away
Dylan's former girlfriend inspired songs as Don't Think Twice, It's All Right, Boots of Spanish Leather and Tomorrow Is a Long Time and she appeared on the cover of The Freewheelin Bob Dylan.
Her friend and Village Voice critic Jim Hoberman wrote that she died in her New York apartment "and the arms of her husband of 40 years, Enzo Bartoccioli".
Dylan met Rotolo, then 17, after a gig in 1961 and the couple stayed together for three years.
Dylan later wrote that meeting her "was like stepping into the tales of 1,001 Arabian nights", adding: "She had a smile that could light up a street full of people... a Rodin sculpture come to life."
Rotolo went on to become an artist and teacher. She also wrote a memoir of life in Greenwich Village in the 1960s, A Freewheelin' Time, which was published in 2008.