Bob Dylan Is a Hell’s Angel (A Bob Dylan Story, Chapter 2)

As Bob Dylan continues to recover from his accident, he remembers another motorcycle crash, one that took the life of a biker with a suspiciously familiar name. Robert Zimmerman, president of the San Bernardino chapter of the Hell’s Angels, dies on the road at the very moment that another Robert Zimmerman, this one from Minnesota, becomes Bob Dylan on stage in New York.

SOURCES:

Down the Highway: The Life of Bob Dylan, by Howard Sounes

Chronicles: Volume One, by Bob Dylan

That Thin, Wild Mercury Sound: Dylan, Nashville, and the Making of Blonde on Blonde, by Daryl Sanders

Revolution in the Air: The Songs of Bob Dylan, 1957-1973, by Clinton Heylin

Dylan’s Visions of Sin, by Christopher Ricks

Trouble in Mind: Bob Dylan’s Gospel Years, by Clinton Heylin

A Freewheelin’ Time: A Memoir of Greenwich Village in the Sixties, by Suze Rotolo

The Old, Weird America: The World of Bob Dylan’s Basement Tapes, by Greil Marcus

And a Voice to Sing With: A Memoir, by Joan Baez

Small Town Talk, by Barney Hoskyns

Bob Dylan Unleashed (Rolling Stone)

Still on the Road (Bob Dylan Recording Sessions)

20-Year-Old Singer Is Bright New Face at Gerde’s Club (NY Times)

The Connection Between Bob Dylan and Woody Guthrie (Far Out)

Becoming the Hero of His Own Dream – The Transfiguration of Bobby Zimmerman (Medium)

Allen Ginsberg Interview, Malibu, California, 1977

1961: Bob Dylan Takes the Stage (NY Times)

Gerde’s photos (Getty Images)

Rise and Fall of Greystone Park Psychiatric Hospital (Abandoned Places Map)

Albert Grossman’s Ghost (Musician Magazine)

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