[5] Sara started going out on her own, driving around town in an MG sports car Hans had given her, and gravitated to the youthful scene in Greenwich Village.
Sara was still married to Hans when they met, and Dylan was still romantically linked to Joan Baez at the time.
[6] On why she left her husband, Hans' son from a previous marriage, Peter Lownds, stated: "Bob was the reason."
[8] Lownds and Dylan became romantically involved in 1964;[9] soon afterwards, they moved into separate rooms in New York's Hotel Chelsea to be near one another.
According to Dylan biographer Howard Sounes, the wedding took place under an oak tree outside a judge's office on Long Island, and the only other participants were Albert Grossman and a maid of honor for Lownds.
[12] Robbie Robertson, who was playing lead guitar on the tour, has described in his memoir how he received a phone call that morning to accompany the couple to a courthouse on Long Island, and then to a reception hosted by Albert and Sally Grossman at the Algonquin Hotel.
[12] Journalist Nora Ephron first made the news public in the New York Post in February 1966 with the headline "Hush!
[15] In 1973, the Dylans sold their Woodstock home and purchased a modest property on the Point Dume peninsula in Malibu, California.
[3] Joan Baez, a former lover of Dylan, was also a featured performer on the Revue and appeared in the film as The Woman in White.
Mitchelson later estimated that the settlement agreed was worth about $36 million to Sara Dylan and included "half the royalties from the songs written during their marriage".
[21][22] Michael Gray has written: "A condition of the settlement was that Sara would remain silent about her life with Dylan.
Sara happened to visit the studio that evening and Dylan "sang 'Sara' to his wife as she watched from the other side of the glass...
Dylan biographers Robert Shelton and Clinton Heylin have cautioned against interpreting the album as naked autobiography, arguing that Blood on the Tracks works on many levels—musical, spiritual, poetic—as well as a personal confession.
"[1][6] Heylin has quoted Steven Soles saying that, in 1977, Dylan came over unannounced to his apartment and played him ten or twelve songs that were "very dark, very intense" dealing with his bitterness over the divorce.
Both Clinton Heylin and Andy Gill have connected Sara to "Love Minus Zero/No Limit" recorded in January 1965.
[33][34] Gill writes that this song expresses admiration for Sara's "Zen-like equanimity: unlike most of the women he met, she wasn't out to impress him or interrogate him about his lyrics."
Heylin also credits Sara Dylan as the inspiration for "She Belongs to Me" (from 1965's Bringing It All Back Home)[35] and "Abandoned Love" (recorded during the Desire sessions, but not released until the Biograph box set in 1985).