![]() ![]() On the designated day I was summoned to the Beverly Hills Hotel, the big pink lady where stars have stayed and played since the birth of Hollywood. It felt like arranging a meeting with Batman. At first I was given no time or location, told only that it would take place in the middle of the week at a hotel somewhere in the middle of Los Angeles. Elliot’s assistant called me periodically, each time divulging a little more information. ![]() The arrangements surrounding the interview were cryptic and incremental. But it was no joke the call came from the office of Elliot Mintz, who was then Dylan’s press rep. I’d been trying to land an interview with Dylan since 1987, when I was appointed editor of SongTalk, the journal of the National Academy of Songwriters. He will be in touch.”Īt first I suspected it was a joke. It was May 8, 1991, and I’d returned to my Hollywood office after lunch to find a pink phone message tacked to the board with an unlikely haiku: “Mr. As part of our Bob Dylan birthday week celebration, we’re happy to bring you this, our 1991 interview with Dylan, his only one ever to focus exclusively on songwriting
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