Mystery woman claims to have been Dylan’s best friend in Jr. high school
Edith Flynn has announced she is writing a book about her life with Bob Dylan, growing up in Hibbing, Minnesota with the Bard of the 60s.
“I’m gonna write it and make a million bucks,” said Flynn.
“Everyone is writing books about Bob Dylan and I want to write one too,” she said in an exclusive NJN Network interview.
Echo Helstrom, Bob Dylan’s high school sweetheart (photo copyright Toby Thompson)
When pressed, Flynn said she didn’t know Dylan’s other girlfriends from Hibbing like Echo Helstrom.
“We hung out at the soda fountain in Hibbing after school. I think he was 12 then.”
“Echo, described as the Minnesotan Brigitte Bardot, was Dylan’s first serious girlfriend,” says Folkfanclub.
“She lost her virginity to Bob, who claimed that it was his “first time” as well (though she later found out he had, in fact, lost his virginity to a very close friend of Echo’s just a few weeks earlier). ” Folkfanclub
“It will be a coming of age book,” Flynn said when asked if she was the “very close friend of Echo.”
Flynn added that Dylan liked to keep his girl friends a secret when explaining why her name does not appear in any of the other books.
“We broke up after his Bar Mitzvah and my First Communion dates clashed,” Flynn said wistfully. “It will all be in my book.”
“Everybody knows by now that there’s a gazillion books on me.” Dylan predicted in a recent blog, “either out or coming out in the near future.”
“So I’m encouraging anybody who’s ever met me,” wrote Dylan, ” heard me or even seen me, to get in on the action and scribble their own book. You never know, somebody might have a great book in them.”
Flynn’s book may have all the authenticity of Dylan wannabee Joel Gilbert who has released yet another film not about Dylan, entitled Bob Dylan Revealed.
“The interviews are poorly edited and go on too long,” wrote Crawdaddy in a review of the film. “There are only a handful of interesting anecdotes, but they’re padded by hours of unfocused talking. Gilbert never asks his subjects to stay on point so they go on about tuning up before a show or minutiae about backstage activities.”
“Simply put, the film is a mess. If you want to look into the life and art of Bob Dylan, Scorsese’s No Direction Home: Bob Dylan is the place to start.”
For those who want to read an accurate account of Bob Dylan’s life, including his origins in Hibbing, we recommend the excellent work by Robert Shelton No Direction Home: The Life and Music of Bob Dylan (The Acclaimed Biography)
No publication date has been announced for Flynn’s book. None of her statements could be authenticated.
This story is a spoof or as we call it in Trump-world fake news.
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