Neil Young’s Review of ‘A Complete Unknown’ Includes Hilarious Anecdote About Bob Dylan
Neil Young reveals hilarious anecdote about long-time friend and colleague Bob Dylan while reviewing Dylan's biopic, 'A Complete Unknown.'
What makes the 2024 Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown particularly interesting is that countless musicians, including Dylan himself, Joan Baez, and their contemporaries, like Neil Young, were all around to watch and compare the film to the very real lives that they led in the 1960s, when the film is set. Not all historical films get to benefit from this breakdown of the fourth wall, where the people the film talks about actually get to talk about the film.
Some of these musicians’ reactions, like Dylan and Baez, offer fascinating insights into how each artist approaches their past, present, and the celebrity woven throughout both. For Young, it knocked loose a hilarious anecdote between him and the “Like a Rolling Stone” songwriter.
Canadian singer-songwriter Neil Young shared his brief but positive review of the Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown on a January 13, 2025, post on Young’s online blog, NYA Times-Contrarian. “I love Bob Dylan and his music. Always have,” the review begins. “He’s a great artist. This movie is a great tribute to his life and music. I think if you love Bob’s music, you should see this great movie. I loved it.” Given that Young has long been outspoken about his love and appreciation for Dylan, it would stand to reason that he would have strong feelings about the biopic about his friend and colleague.
“He’s the master,” Young said of Dylan in a 2005 Time interview. “If I’d like to be anyone, it’s him. He’s a great writer, true to his music and doing what he feels is the right thing to do for years and years and years. He’s great; he’s the one I look to. I’m always interested in what he’s doing now or did last or did a long time ago that I didn’t find out about. The guy has written some of the greatest poetry and put it to music in a way that it touched me. Other people have done that, but not so consistently or as intensely.”
A positive review of A Complete Unknown, like the one Young published on his online blog, is no small accolade coming from a colleague, fan, and long-time friend. But Young didn’t stop there. “Once, he was on my bus, and I didn’t recognize him and threw him off,” Young added as a passing thought. “But that’s another story.” Young’s story would be funny enough on its own, but it becomes even more hilarious, considering this has happened to Dylan multiple times over the years.
Blame it on his aloof demeanor or the power of his larger-than-life stage presence that makes it more difficult to recognize him when he’s in a relaxed, neutral state, but folks have a hard time recognizing Bob Dylan out in the wild. If Dylan was nonchalantly entering Neil Young’s tour bus, then they had obviously developed a friendship by that point. Yet, Young still couldn’t recognize Dylan enough not to treat him like a random trespasser.
A similar situation happened during one of Elton John’s backyard parties at his Los Angeles home during the height of his c****** addiction. According to John, he thought Dylan was a gardener helping himself to food and libations for the party guests. “Who the hell was he?” John wrote in his autobiography, Me. “It must be one of the staff, a gardener. I loudly demanded to know what the gardener was doing helping himself to a drink.” John described the silence that fell across the partygoers before his assistant, Bob Halley, whispered, “Elton, that’s not the f***ing gardener. It’s Bob Dylan.”
Another time, in 2009, residents of Long Branch, New Jersey, called the police on Dylan after spotting him walking around their neighborhood in the rain. The nervous caller described Dylan as an “eccentric-looking old man.” And, of course, they weren’t wrong. He is an eccentric-looking old man—it’s just that this particular eccentric-looking old man also happened to be one of the greatest songwriters of all time.
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