Bob Dylan

“Subterranean Homesick Blues” Director: D.A. Pennebaker

When D.A. Pennebaker shot Bob Dylan in the alley next to the Savoy Hotel in London for his 1965 documentary Don't Look Back, he didn’t know he’d essentially created one of the first music videos, one whose influence would span decades and inspire tributes and parodies. Pennebaker recalled shooting this iconic Dylan moment in this interview from 2017.

Did you already know Bob Dylan?

Well, when I first met him downtown at a bar, he and [Dylan’s manager Bob] Neuwirth were waiting for me. And the first thing he said was I have this idea of writing out the lines of a song and holding a lot of them as the song goes. And I said it’s a terrific idea and so we carried, oh god, lots of – we got a whole bunch of shirt cardboards, I think, that we took with us to England.

Oh, so there were cardboard out of shirts?