{"id":807312,"date":"2020-05-11T06:20:23","date_gmt":"2020-05-11T12:20:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=997105"},"modified":"2020-05-11T06:20:23","modified_gmt":"2020-05-11T12:20:23","slug":"how-a-56-year-old-photo-wound-up-on-the-cover-of-bob-dylans-upcoming-lp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/how-a-56-year-old-photo-wound-up-on-the-cover-of-bob-dylans-upcoming-lp\/","title":{"rendered":"How a 56-Year-Old Photo Wound Up on the Cover of Bob Dylan\u2019s Upcoming LP"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The photo on the cover of Bob Dylan<\/a>\u2019s upcoming LP, Rough and Rowdy Ways<\/em>, was snapped more than 50 years ago by a man who is, admittedly, not all that familiar with the musician.<\/p>\n

\u201cLike most photographers, I\u2019m a visual guy,\u201d 86-year-old photographer Ian Berry tells Rolling Stone<\/em> via phone from his home in Salisbury, England. \u201cI have, though, spent quite a lot of time with people like Miriam Makeba, but most of the profiles I\u2019ve done on musicians have been more classical, people like [David] Ashkenazi.\u201d<\/p>\n

Still, when he received an email asking for permission to use the image, he was flattered. \u201cI was delighted,\u201d he says. \u201cA record cover for Dylan is a great compliment.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Sixties-era photo shows a well-dressed couple dancing in a club<\/a> while a man leans over to examine a jukebox behind them. None of their faces are visible, but the image crackles with intrigue and romance.<\/p>\n

Berry took the photo at a long-defunct underground club on Cable Street in the East London town of Whitechapel when he was on assignment for the Observer<\/em>, photographing images for an article about black culture in England. \u201cI was working quickly, and in very poor light, shooting away with a 35-millimeter camera,\u201d he says. \u201cI knew at some point I\u2019d have to leave because I hadn\u2019t asked permission to be there.\u201d<\/p>\n

He doesn\u2019t remember what sort of music the couple was dancing to when he captured the moment on film, but he does remember being drawn to the woman. \u201cI\u2019ve always been very into women,\u201d he says. \u201cI\u2019ve been married three times. The lady had a good figure. And I liked the juxtaposition with the jukebox.\u201d<\/p>\n

After about 15 or 20 minutes of taking photos, the patrons in the club had had enough of the camera-wielding stranger. \u201cThere were crates of beer bottles near the entrance and people started throwing beer bottles at me, so I left,\u201d he says. \u201cIt\u2019s something that happens a lot to photographers in different parts of the world, but I think it\u2019s the only time it happened in England to me.\u201d<\/p>\n

Today, Berry\u2019s vast archive is controlled by the agency Magnum Photos. They previously made a deal with the Dylan camp for Bruce Davidson\u2019s 1959 photograph of a young couple making out in a car, which appeared on the cover of 2009\u2019s Together Through Life<\/em>. (Dylan hasn\u2019t used a photograph of himself on an album cover of original songs since 2001\u2019s Love and Theft.<\/em>)<\/p>\n

Magnum made the deal for this one as well, although they reached out to Berry before finalizing anything. \u201cIt was originally a black and white picture, obviously, and they wanted to check if it was okay by me to put a color tint on it,\u201d he says. \u201cI didn\u2019t mind at all.\u201d<\/p>\n

Although Berry isn\u2019t that familiar with Dylan\u2019s music, his wife is a huge fan. \u201cShe\u2019s more enthusiastic than I am [about the cover],\u201d he says. \u201cBut of course I\u2019ve regularly listened to \u2018It Ain\u2019t Me Babe\u2019 and so forth, but they are her records rather than mine. I like the sort of singers where I can actually hear the words, people like Joan Armatrading or Joan Baez.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rough and Rowdy Ways<\/em> drops June 19th<\/a>. Three songs from the project have been released so far: \u201cFalse Prophet,\u201d \u201cMurder Most Foul\u201d and \u201cI Contain Multitudes.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The photo on the cover of Bob Dylan\u2019s upcoming LP, Rough and Rowdy Ways, was snapped more than 50 years ago by a man who is, admittedly, not all that familiar with the musician. \u201cLike most photographers, I\u2019m a visual guy,\u201d 86-year-old photographer Ian Berry tells Rolling Stone via phone from his home in Salisbury, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-807312","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-11 11:17:38","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=807312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807312\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=807312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=807312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=807312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}