Dylan’s ex-love and lyrical muse dies

SUZE ROTOLO, an artist in Manhattan’s bohemian Greenwich Village and Bob Dylan’s girlfriend and lyrical muse, has died at 67, it was announced yesterday.

Rotolo, who remained an activist throughout her life, can be seen walking arm in arm with the singer on the cover of the 60s classic The Freewheelin Bob Dylan. She was just 17 when Dylan became smitten.

“Right from the start I couldn’t take my eyes off her,” Dylan wrote in his autobiography. “She was the most erotic thing I’d ever seen. She was fair skinned and golden haired, full-blood Italian. The air was suddenly filled with banana leaves. We started talking and my head started to spin.