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newspaper back in Duluth to take notice—but he was, for
a time, bereft. Suze didn’t enjoy being seen as an append-
age (she said the musicians’ girlfriends in the Village scene
were perceived as “chicks,” and she was smarter than that),
and with her mother’s support, she left New York for an
extended sojourn in Italy. She returned to New York, and
to Dylan, in January 1963, but everything was to become
much more complicated by the success of Freewheelin’,
Dylan’s ascendancy in the world of pop culture, and—not
least—the singer’s love affair with Joan Baez.THINGS ARE SHIFTING IN THE SUMMER
of ’63. Dylan wows them at Newport (left),
where he is an accepted member of folk’s
royalty for the group sing (from left, below,
Peter, Mary, Paul, Joan, Bob). And he is at
work on the songs that will fill his first album
of all-original material and establish him as
a songwriter of consequence. Bottom, the
lyrics in manuscript for what will become
the title song of that album, and quickly an
anthem: “The Times They Are A-Changin’ ”
He is in the studio recording before the
summer is out.© JIM MARSHALL PHOTOGRAPHY LLC
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