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(Credits: Far Out \/ Alamy \/ James Kavallines \/ Roger Higgins)<\/p>\n
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It\u2019s been decades since the 1960s<\/a>, with new advancements, technology, cultural heroes, genres and styles having come through, but it still remains a period of complete obsession that especially grips music fans. <\/p>\n But then, when you hear a story like a random night Robbie Robertson spent in the company of the art world\u2019s most enigmatic figures, it\u2019s easy to understand why the fascination endures.<\/p>\n Sure, moments like this are still happening without us realising, as we\u2019re living through history, and in 60 more years, some other journalist will sit here and write enamoured about artists at dinner parties, about meeting those who are modern and new to us, but who will one day be the old heroes. Albums being released this year might become classics that people obsess over and keep on repeat forevermore, as the fascination and intrigue will endure in the year 2076 as it does for us in 2026 for the bygone.<\/p>\n But somehow, it feels different; part of the reason why people remain so intrigued by the 1960s was that it sat on a precipice, where simultaneously, art and music were arguably the most lucrative they had ever been, but also the most lawless. Moreover, the idea of the \u2018industry\u2019 didn\u2019t come into it, and artists could be artists, with the scene ruling supreme as some of culture\u2019s best stories, best collaborations and best work all just came from the meeting of minds at some party or another. One chance encounter could change it all, and the people we now worship were out there partying, that\u2019s for sure.<\/p>\n In this story, the party was in New York City, amongst one of the most rose-tinted chapters in history, the Chelsea Hotel era<\/a>, where the most important artists around took up a room in the same space; it was a time when Andy Warhol was at the height of his power, and the city was alive with the sound of The Velvet Underground, Bob Dylan and the slow dawning of the punk age, so naturally Robbie Robertson was right in the thick of it. <\/p>\n Around 1966, he was playing as Bob Dylan\u2019s backing band as well as crafting his own outfit, ingeniously titled The Band, so, in short, he was in the big leagues and was having a lot of fun with it, taking up residence at the Chelsea<\/a> and thriving amongst the riff raff.<\/p>\n Though Dylan still loves to deny it, there was one key character revolving around their realm at that time, and that was Edie Sedgwick. Inspiring songs on Blonde on Blonde<\/a>, Andy Warhol\u2019s ultimate superstar seemed to have that whole set wrapped around her finger as even Robertson admitted of their own relationship, \u201cI wouldn\u2019t say we dated, but sometimes she didn\u2019t want to be alone\u201d.<\/p>\n
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<\/a>Saldavor Dal\u00ed and Andy Warhol, two of art\u2019s most enigmatic figures. (Credits: Far Out \/ Alamy \/ National Galleries of Scotland \/ Flickr)<\/p>\n