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Where's Bob?
Posted by David Hepworth on 18 July 2009 - 5:18pm.
Now that we've managed to work out where Syd Barrett is, does anybody know where Bob Dylan is being pursued by these very polite fans?
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Not a lot of clues there
And he could have changed his pyjamas first.
Is he in Newcastle
popping round to Alan Price's Mum's for a bottle of brown ale maybe?
Is it significant that
he's pointing to a manhole? Ooh err missus...
EDIT: In fact, as I study more closely, it appears that somebody has stolen his shovel in mid dig.
Manhole
Just a thought. He's pointing to a manhole, not wearing sandals...is he also trying to avoid a scandal?
That's
funny
That's a
Very uneven paving slab he's pointing to. He could sue whichever council it was.
Sydenham High Street
is a wild guess.
As a resident
of Sydenham, I'm idly curious as to why you said that!
D x
It just had the look of going up towards Lloyd's Bank about it
(I am also a resident)
As someone who missed out on all but 8 months of the 1960s...
can someone describe to me how wildly-dressed Dylan must have seemed back then? Would he have looked like an alien descended to Earth or simply bizarrely-attired?
Manchester
On his way to the Free Trade Hall in 1966. Is someone about to shout 'Judas' at him from the cheap seats?
Is that Bing Crosby
walking away from the camera?
To quote Bob Hope
"He does 15 minutes every time he opens the fridge"
Don't think Bing would ever knowingly walk away from a camera
Ah, but
what about the cameraman coming the other way but out of picture? Possibly.
Still, at least no sign of Sandi Toksvig anywhere which is a bonus.
Maybe Bob is pointing
at Toksvig.
(Actually I think she's OK. V funny on The News Quiz.)
funny
but to me everyone in that shot looks cool. Apart from Dylan.
Gut reaction
Looks like Oxford Circus. But I shall study the photo for further evidence.
I've never seen this photo before, David. Where did you find it?
As far as my thinking takes me
Dylan seemed to wear this jacket quite a lot on the Spring 1966 European tour. It's clearly visible in much of No Direction Home, such as the scene where he's riffing on a shop sign in Kensington (Queen's Gate Mews, since you ask). However, in that scene he's not wearing these trousers. Similar, but not the same. He is, however, wearing this exact outfit either arriving in or leaving Paris, once again visible in Scorsese's film. Now, according to the tour schedule, Dylan played one day in Paris - his 25th birthday, 24th May 1966. He played Newcastle on the 21st and back to London on the 26th. So, this could be filmed in either city as he prepared to leave for or returned from Paris.
So, after all that, and as I've been in Newcastle more recently than in London - and it doesn't look very much like the former - I'm going with my gut reaction: Oxford Circus, somewhere between the tube station and Poland Street. Kind of where M&S is now.
I think you may be right
Though I have no evidence, just a gut feel for the location. It certainly looks like that stretch of Oxford Street to me. Even in that short few yards shown.
A windy day and an immense curly coiffure do not mix. He looks more like Sideshow Bob Dylan.
Reflections
of sky and trees... it's too open for Oxford St. Princes St, Edinburgh, however, has a park on the other side.
If anyone's got Trainspotting to hand, see if you can spot that manhole cover in the opening chase.
Reflection
Good point...
It's not Bob Dylan
it's Cate Blanchett and, far from being pursued himself, they're all running away from Albert Grossman.
Somewhere near Broadcasting House
Would be my guess. Based on the fact that there are a few people following him, who may have known that he was being interviewed by David Jacobs/Jimmy Young. He has just left the BBC and is marching down Portland Place, ignoring his fans as true heroes should. Note a couple of them seem to be brandishing autograph books.
Within a hundred or so yards, the gaggle will have thinned out and these autograph hunters will return to their spot to see if they can get Cardew (The Cad) Robertson.
The Great Mad Head of Dylan...
... reigns supreme.
We all follow in his wake.
Lovely photo find Mr. H.
Hamelin?
Possibly on his way to work?
Is that a young Brian Wilson
In the tight strides and shades?
Bob Neuwirth
In the shades, I think (he who played the Masked Tortilla in "Renaldo and Clara"!)
That's Auld Reekie!!
Without a shadow of doubt, it's Princes Street Edinburgh.
Edinburgh
He played there on May 20th. Either he had a snappy laundry service or the outfit wasn't clean for him to wear it in Paris 2-3 days later.
I can't believe I'm involved in this conversation.
EDIT: I've just had another look at No Direction Home. At the Paris press conference, it looks as if Dylan is wearing a different shirt under the jacket. That would mean that the footage of him at Paris airport is more likely to be him leaving the city. Which would suggest that this photograph is London.
Here's the 1966 tour schedule, if anyone's interested:
April 13: Sydney, Australia
April 15: Brisbane, Australia
April 16: Sydney, Australia
April 19: Melbourne, Australia
April 20: Melbourne, Australia
April 22: Adelaide, Australia
April 23: Perth, Australia
April 29: Stockholm, Sweden
May 1: Copenhagen, Denmark
May 5: Dublin, Ireland
May 6: Belfast, Ireland
May 10: Bristol, England
May 12: Birmingham, England
May 14: Liverpool, England
May 15: Leicester, England
May 16: Sheffield, England
May 17: Manchester, England
May 19: Glasgow, Scotland
May 20: Edinburgh, Scotland
May 21: Newcastle, England
May 24: Paris, France
May 26: London, England
May 27: London, England
find out the name of the store and the salon
and the game is afoot!
Yes, Scotland ...
I know it is not Belfast ... my guess is Edinburgh ... he wore those pants out when there ... Ps ... That was hard work, Lucas, to put that list together ... pity the Word can't make them links to Dylan's music from those places ... it is all available on line, after all. Cheers!
Is it
Positively 4th Street?
Wacka wacka wackaaaah!
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All in the same shop in 1966?. Definitely not the north of England, so Newcastle is out. And probably not Scotland, for the same reasons. Also, the Scorcese film of him in Edinburgh watching the bagpipers don't have him wearing those trousers.
It's May
They're wearing coats
Neuwirth looks like he's freezing
I'm going with Scotland.