Fact #39159
When:
Short story:
Bob Dylan holds a press conference in the Mayfair Hotel, London, England, UK, Europe. In the evening Dylan takes British singer Dana Gillespie to see John Lee Hooker at Blaises.
Full article:
Dermot Purgavie (Daily Sketch reporter) : Publicity men with urgent voices had summoned us for gin and tonic, cocktail onions and, principally, for group analysis of Mr. Bob Dylan ... He wore a blue suede tunic, blue and white butcher-stripe pants and dark glasses. His tangled, woolly hair looked as if it had been pitch-forked onto his head.
Keith Altham (NME journalist) : For some fifteen minutes, photographers exposed innumerable rolls of film at Dylan looking bored, slumped on a window sill. Finally, he removed his dark glasses as a bonus to the cameramen, but somehow managed to look exactly the same.
As the reporters filed out of the suite, I took one of Dylan’s undercover agents to one side and enquired why a man with Dylan’s obvious intelligence bothered to arrange this farce of a meeting. “Man,” he extolled, “Dylan just wanted to come along and record a press reception so we could hear how ridiculous and infantile all reporters are.”
Keith Richards (guitarist, Rolling Stones) : They had to carry him into Blaises, and then I went over to him, and I was pretty frightened of him.
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Keith Altham (NME journalist) : For some fifteen minutes, photographers exposed innumerable rolls of film at Dylan looking bored, slumped on a window sill. Finally, he removed his dark glasses as a bonus to the cameramen, but somehow managed to look exactly the same.
As the reporters filed out of the suite, I took one of Dylan’s undercover agents to one side and enquired why a man with Dylan’s obvious intelligence bothered to arrange this farce of a meeting. “Man,” he extolled, “Dylan just wanted to come along and record a press reception so we could hear how ridiculous and infantile all reporters are.”
Keith Richards (guitarist, Rolling Stones) : They had to carry him into Blaises, and then I went over to him, and I was pretty frightened of him.