Sara Dylan was born on Shirley Marlin Noznisky; October 28,1939 and is an American former actress and model who was the first wife of singer-songwriter Bob Dylan.
19 Facts About Sara Dylan
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Sara Dylan was married to Bob Dylan from 1965 until their 1977 divorce; they had four children together, and he adopted her daughter from her first marriage.
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Sara Dylan played the role of Clara in the movie Renaldo and Clara, directed by Dylan, and the film was described by a Dylan biographer as "in part a tribute to his wife".
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Sara Dylan was shot dead by a drunken fellow East European immigrant on November 18,1956.
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Sara Dylan started going out on her own, driving around town in an MG sports car Hans had given her, and gravitated to the youthful scene in Greenwich Village.
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Sara was still married to Hans when they met, and Dylan was still romantically linked to Joan Baez at the time.
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Dylan and Sara were guests at the Grossmans' wedding in November 1964.
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Lownds and Sara Dylan became romantically involved in 1964; soon afterwards, they moved into separate rooms in New York's Hotel Chelsea to be near one another.
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Sara Dylan impressed some people as shy and quiet, others as supremely confident; either way, she appeared to do only what she felt needed to be done.
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In September 1965, Sara Dylan commenced his first "electric" tour of the United States, backed by the Hawks.
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Sara Dylan never knew what I was talking about, what I was thinking about, and I couldn't possibly explain it.
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Notwithstanding these tensions, Sara Dylan accompanied Dylan on much of the first stage of the Rolling Thunder Revue, from October to December 1975.
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Sara Dylan appeared in many scenes in this semi-improvised movie, playing Clara to Dylan's Renaldo.
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Joan Baez, a former lover of Sara Dylan, was a featured performer on the Revue and appeared in the film as The Woman in White.
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Sara Dylan is said to have inspired several songs by Dylan, and two have been directly linked to her.
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In "Sara" from the 1976 album Desire, Dylan calls her a "radiant jewel, mystical wife".
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In "Sara," Dylan seems to acknowledge his wife as the inspiration for "Sad Eyed Lady":.
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Jacques Levy, who co-wrote many songs on Desire, has recalled how Dylan and Sara were estranged when he recorded this song in July 1975.
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Heylin has quoted Steven Soles saying that, in 1977, Sara Dylan came over unannounced to his apartment and played him ten or twelve songs that were "very dark, very intense" dealing with his bitterness over the divorce.