A Look At Bob Dylan's Complicated Love Life

Bob Dylan will forever be associated with the 1960s, thanks to his music providing much of the soundtrack for that decade's counterculture, and it was during the '60s that Dylan entered some of his most formative relationships. The first of Dylan's most important loves was Suze Rotolo, an artist who was the daughter of Communists, credited with giving the young Dylan political insights that would come to inform some his most famous songs of the period, according to the Irish Independent. Rotolo was immortalised in 1963 when she appeared arm-in-arm with the songwriter on the cover of his second album, The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan. It was reportedly Rotolo for whom Dylan wrote many of his early love songs, including the classic "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right."

Dylan later wrote about Rotolo in his autobiography: "She was the most erotic thing I'd ever seen ... The air was suddenly filled with banana leaves. We started talking and my head started to spin."

The relationship apparently turned sour when Dylan become involved with a woman who was to become his next major love: singer, songwriter, and activist Joan Baez. The pair bonded over a shared love of folk music in 1963, according to Biography. This relationship didn't last, either. The pair broke up in 1965 during Dylan's tour of the UK, with many details of the deterioration of their partnership captured in the 1967 documentary Dont Look Back

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