Hibbing girl Echo Helstrom%2C Bob Dylan%27s first love and who inspired the song %22Girl from the North Country.%22 Not only did Helstrom provide Thompson with insight and perspective on Bob as a quiet%2C polite and impressionable young man%2C but she and Thompson themselves had what he calls %22a brief romance%22 and remained lifelong friends. In Dylan%27s own memoir%2C %22Chronicles Volume One%2C%22 he wrote of Helstrom%2C %22Everyone said she looked like Brigitte Bardot%2C and she did.%22 After Helstrom died in 2018%2C at age 75%2C this was one of the photos published in newspapers around the world that accompanied word of her passing. Photo by Toby Thompson
Hibbing girl Echo Helstrom%2C Bob Dylan%27s first love and who inspired the song %22Girl from the North Country.%22 Not only did Helstrom provide Thompson with insight and perspective on Bob as a quiet%2C polite and impressionable young man%2C but she and Thompson themselves had what he calls %22a brief romance%22 and remained lifelong friends. In Dylan%27s own memoir%2C %22Chronicles Volume One%2C%22 he wrote of Helstrom%2C %22Everyone said she looked like Brigitte Bardot%2C and she did.%22 After Helstrom died in 2018%2C at age 75%2C this was one of the photos published in newspapers around the world that accompanied word of her passing. Photo by Toby Thompson