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“I don’t believe you,” Dylan responds. “You’re a liar!”
He then turns to his band, which is set to roar into “Like a
Rolling Stone,” and orders: “Play it [expletive] loud!”S
o in Dylan’s professional life, all is tempest, all is Sturm
und Drang. In his personal life, post-Baez in late 1964
through 1965, all is bliss. Or a Dylan version of bliss.
He had first met the former Shirley Marlin Noznisky—
born on October 28, 1939, in Delaware—in 1962, when, accord-
ing to her family’s lore, she had been driving in Greenwich
Village in her MG. She was, at the time, Sara Lownds, mar-
ried to magazine photographer Hans Lownds (who had
asked her to change her first name as well as her second:“I can’t be married to a woman named Shirley.”) Sara was a
New York City career girl of a certain type: fashion model,
stage actress when she could get a role, Playboy bunny when
she needed a job. Her former stepson, Peter Lownds, once
said, “Her meeting with Bob was the reason [Sara left Hans
Lownds]—he was famous, and she was very beautiful.”
If she separated from Lownds soon after meeting Dylan,
she and the singer would not become a couple for a while
more—and not until Dylan had progressed through his
relationships with Suze Rotolo and Baez. When, in late 1964,
Dylan and Sara did get serious, they moved into the storied
Chelsea Hotel in New York City. In 1965, the couple began
living in a cabin in Woodstock, and there the living was easy.PHOTOGR APH © DANIEL KR AMER
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