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The "Blonde On Blonde" Missing Pictures

	Original 1966 LP 9-photo inside layout with Claudia Cardinale and unknown whisperer
	Replacement 1968 LP 7-photo inside layout, same on the left but Claudia and the whisperer have gone from the right!

This page shows the pictures on the gatefold sleeve of the vinyl release of 1966’s Blonde On Blonde that have not made it into the regular CD insert (the artwork for the gold CD is different as shown below). If you know who any of these people are, please contact me or make a posting to rec.music.dylan. The inside layout was revised in the USA from 1968 onwards to remove the picture of Claudia Cardinale, but printings outside the USA preserved the original layout. The 2002 re-release of the US mono mix of Blonde On Blonde by Sundazed uses the 7-photo picture shown above, they have not managed to get permission to reproduce the original sleeve. For more details see International Mono Releases.

Thanks to Jerry Schatzberg, his assistant Tim White, and Rod MacBeath for their input to this page.

Bob And Who?

This photo remains on the sleeve, but who's the man with his back to the camera facing Bob? Jerry Schatzberg confirms it's Albert Grossman: "Albert Grossman is the figure with his back to the camera talking to Dylan".

This second picture appeared for years in the regular CD insert in a cropped form only, omitting Bob’s companion. Rod MacBeath, in his Telegraph 50 article, "Looking Up Dylan's Sleeves", identifies the person as Albert Grossman, but Jerry Schatzberg says: "The photograph that identifies Albert Grossman as the second figure, is incorrect, it is (Lady) Sandra Suffolk. She contacted me with the pretext of a photo shoot for Queen Magazine. She really wanted an interview with Dylan. I spoke to him and he agreed to meet with her if I would come along. I did, it was just the three of us."

Picture from the original LP sleeve, Lady Sandra Suffolk on right in shadow

Picture from the regular UK CD (before the SACD release)

Unknown Woman: Edie Sedgwick or Carole Adler?

This picture is still in the insert for the UK gold CD - however we still don't know for certain the identity of the woman whispering in Bob's ear. Rod MacBeath says in his article that she could be Edie Sedgwick, but apparently Edie was "rail-thin and a platinum blonde" (see her picture below), so this would appear not to be her. Anyone know who she is? One suggestion is Carole Adler (daughter of harmonica player Larry), who hung around with Bob at this time. Tim White thinks the picture was taken at a night club called Ondine (see Tim's comments below). Jerry Schatzberg confirms this, but doesn't know the whisperer.

Some interesting comments from Tim White: "My name is Tim White and I was working with Jerry Schatzberg when the shots of Dylan you are curious about were taken! I can confirm that the girl is definitely not Edie Sedgwick. We photographed her several times with Andy, she was definitely blond at the time. I remember that the guy you are concerned about [Albert Grossman - see above] was quite tall, if I'm right, had steel rimmed round glasses and may have been Bob's record producer. I think he would have been about 45-55, it was a long time back! Jerry was about 38 at the time, the studio was 1st. Floor, 333 Park Avenue South. I was also present when the cover was shot. I remember going to the location with Jerry in Bob's Mustang! I also did all Jerry's black and white printing. I remember printing the shot with the painting and the pliers and I pretty certainly made the print of the guy with his back to us. I suspect that the shot of Bob with the girl may have been taken by Jerry at Ondine which was a night club that Jerry owned but I cannot remember." Jerry confirms this, apart from the fact that his studio was on the 3rd floor, not the 1st. Thanks to Jerry Schatzberg and Tricia Jungwirth for information about Jerry's large-format limited edition book of Dylan photographs called "Thin Wild Mercury: Touching Dylan's Edge", published by Genesis Publications Ltd in 2006. The web-site shows page 66 of the book called "Bob Dylan party at Ondine", taken at the nightclub on 5 Oct 1965. This page shows a wider version of the picture from which the shot on the album was obviously cropped and some proof sheet frames. For more information see here:.

Two pictures of Edie Sedgwick with Andy Warhol. Even if she isn't pictured on the sleeve, Edie Sedgwick, who became the girlfriend of Bob's pal Bob Neuwirth, was still a major inspiration for Blonde On Blonde - when she died Patti Smith, who was part of the same New York City mid-1960s scene, wrote an elegy for her saying as much (see below). As well as having possibly inspired Like A Rolling Stone (the story in the song is very much Edie's, and Andy Warhol was accused of being the diplomat in the chrome horse with the Siamese cat), allusions to Edie are said to be found in both Just Like A Woman and Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat. See Mono 7" Singles: 1965 - Like A Rolling Stone for more information.

Visit the Edie Sedgwick Internet Site

9 Nov 2004: News in the UK press is that Sienna Miller (left) is set to star in a biography of Edie Sedgwick to be called "Factory Girl", due for release in mid-2005. The film, to be directed by George Hickenlooper, reportedly "revolves around an unconventional love triangle of sorts that developed between Edie Sedgwick, Bob Dylan and Andy Warhol". Bob Dylan's lawyers made moves to stop the project, and the Bob Dylan character (played by Haydn Christensen of "Star Wars" fame) was renamed Billy Quinn (as of course in Quinn The Eskimo...). The film was eventually released in 2007, with mention of Bob or use of Bob's music. The picture on the right is from the cover of 1965's Bringing It All Back Home. The short-haired woman in the striped sweater giving Bob a head massage is sculptress Barbara Rubin, who introduced him to Andy Warhol and the Factory.

Bob Live

I'd previously thought all the pictures on the inner sleeve were taken by Jerry Schatzberg, but "Scott" informs me that this picture of Bob live in 1966 at bottom left was taken by Charlie Steiner, and Charlie himself confirms this.

Stuck Inside Of Mobile With "Thee"

The title of the song "Stuck Inside Of Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again" was incorrectly printed on the first US printing of this album as "Stuck Inside Of Mobile With The" (later replaced by "Memphis Blues Again"). When the album reached the UK, the typesetter realised this was a mistake and (obviously without checking it out) "corrected" it as shown below. The mistake is repeated on the record label. Thanks to Carsten Wohlfeld for pointing out that the "Millennium Edition" of Blonde On Blonde was issued in a double card CD sleeve reproducing the original UK artwork, and therefore repeated this mistake!

Jason Spradlin has a copy of the US stereo album which has "Stuck Inside Of Memphis With The" on the record label but "Memphis Blues Again" on the inner sleeve - scans required.

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