He doesn’t remember what sort of music the couple was dancing to when he captured the moment on film, but he does remember being drawn to the woman. “I’ve always been very into women,” he says. “I’ve been married three times. The lady had a good figure. And I liked the juxtaposition with the jukebox.”
After about 15 or 20 minutes of taking photos, the patrons in the club had had enough of the camera-wielding stranger. “There were crates of beer bottles near the entrance and people started throwing beer bottles at me, so I left,” he says. “It’s something that happens a lot to photographers in different parts of the world, but I think it’s the only time it happened in England to me.”
Today, Berry’s vast archive is controlled by the agency Magnum Photos. They previously made a deal with the Dylan camp for Bruce Davidson’s 1959 photograph of a young couple making out in a car, which appeared on the cover of 2009’sMagnum made the deal for this one as well, although they reached out to Berry before finalizing anything. “It was originally a black and white picture, obviously, and they wanted to check if it was okay by me to put a color tint on it,” he says. “I didn’t mind at all.
Although Berry isn’t that familiar with Dylan’s music, his wife is a huge fan. “She’s more enthusiastic than I am [about the cover],” he says. “But of course I’ve regularly listened to ‘It Ain’t Me Babe’ and so forth, but they are her records rather than mine. I like the sort of singers where I can actually hear the words, people like Joan Armatrading or Joan Baez.”
What an incredibly intriguing picture.
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