Robin Muir looks back on Peter Rand’s 1962 Vogue sitting with an upstart named Bob Dylan.
London, 1962, and one of the coldest winters on record. Only the residual heat from the power stations at Battersea and Bankside kept the Thames from freezing over. The year ended with the city covered in snow and on one particularly cold December day, a curly-haired young man, diminutive and scruffy, made his way up to the top of Vogue House in Mayfair and hammered on the door of Studio Three. Bob Dylan , aged 21 from Duluth, Minnesota, had arrived.
” As it turned out, he was in London not to sing – things were never that simple with Bob Dylan – but to act in a BBC Sunday night play, The Madhouse on Castle Street, a kitchen-sink drama, fashionably unglamorous and set in a boarding house. Dylan had a lead role, an enigmatic busker. Director Philip Saville had seen him in a New York club that autumn – on the recommendation of WH Auden – and was mesmerised. One thing quickly became clear during rehearsals: Bob Dylan couldn’t act.
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