Sally Grossman, immortalized on a Dylan album cover, dies at 81
The cover of Bob Dylan s Bringing It All Back Home .
by Neil Genzlinger
(NYT NEWS SERVICE)
.- One of Bob Dylans most important early albums, Bringing It All Back Home from 1965, has the kind of cover that can strain eyes and fuel speculation. It is a photograph of Dylan, in a black jacket, sitting in a room full of bric-a-brac that may or may not mean something, staring into the camera as a woman in a red outfit lounges in the background.
Fans became so fixated on deciphering it, the music journalist Neil McCormick wrote in The Daily Telegraph of London last year, that a rumor took hold that the woman was Dylan in drag, representing the feminine side of his psyche.
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When Bob Dylan fans picked up copies of
Bringing It All Back Home in 1965, they weren’t just struck by the electrified folk-rock of “Maggie’s Farm” and “Subterranean Homesick Blues.” Some were also intrigued by its cover, where a dapper Dylan was seen joined by a mysterious brunette in a red jumpsuit, holding a cigarette and staring down the camera.