public good piece written by Angelo Aquaro the site of the Republic on the death of Suzanne Roll:
''NEW YORK - "It was the most erotic thing I had ever seen. Met was like jumping in the tales of Thousand and One Nights. We started talking and my head began to spin." The woman who half a century ago turned the head of a twenty year old named Bob Dylan is dead after a long illness in New York this light years away from this village of artists that she also help with construction. There is no fan of Bob Dylan that has not made his acquaintance: Suzanne Rotolo was the girl who appears on that icon that is the cover of Freewhelin '. Bob in his arm to the heart of the Village: the image of a happy time of music and love. And fight.
Suze era tre anni più giovane di Robert Zimmerman quando - appena diciassettene - incontrò quel giovane chitarrista folk che sventolava il repertorio di Woody Guthrie in un bar italiano tra Mercer e West Fourth Streets. L'incontro che cambiò la storia della musica giovane e ribelle. Fu quella ragazzina a introdurre Bob da poco arrivato a New York negli ambienti più radicali e politicizzati della metropoli. Lei, la piccola attivista "italiana", la figlia di due immigrati di seconda generazione già integrati nella controcultura newyorchese: il padre illustratore, la madre giornalista dell'Unità, la versione americana the Communist daily. She, the young intellectual who weaned the province came from Duluth, Minnessota, talking about Picasso and Cezanne, singing the poems of Rimbaud cursed. And told him of the tragedy of black people summed up by the death of Emmett Till little Dylan that inspired one of the first songs of protest.
Bob and Suze were the young princes of the Village. EA Freewheelin 'Time: A Memoir in Greenwich Village in the Sixties is called not by chance that Suze beautiful memoir published three years ago. "Freewheeling" means "free wheel". "But the alliance between Suze and me," recalled Bob "ended up being not exactly a walk in the woods." Two strong characters. With her too rebellious to settle for the role of muse. And he full of that genius too large to remain confined in the Village. "She picked a way and I another," recalled Dylan in his Chronicles. In reality, the way Bob had already crossed with that of Joan Baez. But before ending up in the arms of the queen of folk Mr. Zimmerman literally lost his head that 'Italian' beautiful and stubborn. Suze in '62 when he followed his mother in Italy and lived "in exile" in the University for Foreigners of Perugia Bob devoted himself to her desperate Tomorrow Is A Long Time: tomorrow is too far away.
Then after three years their paths parted indeed. His activism led her to embark for Cuba and to defend until the last - and controversy among many - the regime of Fidel Castro. She married an Italian. He continued to live in his village working as a teacher and illustrator. Only for the documentary film by Martin Scorsese's No Directions Home decided to speak for the first time Bob. And then tell all in his book-confession.
will recall Dylan: "How many nights I spent awake to write songs to show up and ask, 'Is that all right?"'. Okay, it went well, so it went really well.''
Suze era tre anni più giovane di Robert Zimmerman quando - appena diciassettene - incontrò quel giovane chitarrista folk che sventolava il repertorio di Woody Guthrie in un bar italiano tra Mercer e West Fourth Streets. L'incontro che cambiò la storia della musica giovane e ribelle. Fu quella ragazzina a introdurre Bob da poco arrivato a New York negli ambienti più radicali e politicizzati della metropoli. Lei, la piccola attivista "italiana", la figlia di due immigrati di seconda generazione già integrati nella controcultura newyorchese: il padre illustratore, la madre giornalista dell'Unità, la versione americana the Communist daily. She, the young intellectual who weaned the province came from Duluth, Minnessota, talking about Picasso and Cezanne, singing the poems of Rimbaud cursed. And told him of the tragedy of black people summed up by the death of Emmett Till little Dylan that inspired one of the first songs of protest.
Bob and Suze were the young princes of the Village. EA Freewheelin 'Time: A Memoir in Greenwich Village in the Sixties is called not by chance that Suze beautiful memoir published three years ago. "Freewheeling" means "free wheel". "But the alliance between Suze and me," recalled Bob "ended up being not exactly a walk in the woods." Two strong characters. With her too rebellious to settle for the role of muse. And he full of that genius too large to remain confined in the Village. "She picked a way and I another," recalled Dylan in his Chronicles. In reality, the way Bob had already crossed with that of Joan Baez. But before ending up in the arms of the queen of folk Mr. Zimmerman literally lost his head that 'Italian' beautiful and stubborn. Suze in '62 when he followed his mother in Italy and lived "in exile" in the University for Foreigners of Perugia Bob devoted himself to her desperate Tomorrow Is A Long Time: tomorrow is too far away.
Then after three years their paths parted indeed. His activism led her to embark for Cuba and to defend until the last - and controversy among many - the regime of Fidel Castro. She married an Italian. He continued to live in his village working as a teacher and illustrator. Only for the documentary film by Martin Scorsese's No Directions Home decided to speak for the first time Bob. And then tell all in his book-confession.
will recall Dylan: "How many nights I spent awake to write songs to show up and ask, 'Is that all right?"'. Okay, it went well, so it went really well.''
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