Despite a cold and rainy Friday, the annual celebration of the legend's birthday went on as usual at the Duluth duplex that baby Bobby Zimmerman first called home.
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From the column: "Then the office door opened. Bobby strode out, noticed me for the first time, and, before he charged into the hallway, gave me, a kid of 10, a quick frown and stare. His eyes were blowtorches."
For a few heady years in the Village, Shelton and Dylan were buddies; hanging out, often with their respective girlfriends Suze Rotolo and Baez in Dylan’s case. The friendship did not prevent Shelton from being critical, in person and in print, sometimes to Dylan’s annoyance. But he was fairminded and he understood from the moment he first heard him perform at a Gerde’s hootenanny in June 1961 that Dylan mattered, that his was a talent like no other. His review led to a contract with Columbia Records. The biography he proposed over dinner on New Year’s Eve 1965 was never intended as a potboiler but neither was it intended that it would take twenty years to write.