Dylan adjusted his broad-brimmed, black hat and strolled out behind them, looking like some kind of Mississippi river-boat gambler in his natty black suit with sparkly trim. A pencil-thin moustache lent his remarkably pale visage a sinister air. The six band members passed before the giant burgundy curtains cloaking the stage, taking their positions. “Ladies and Gentlemen, Columbia recording artist Bob Dylan,” announced a voice over the public address as Dylan and band took the stage to the kind of dense, heaving crowd roar that only an icon of Dylan’s stature can summon. And although Dylan made no public statement, everyone in attendance at the concert that night soon found out that Link was at the forefront of his mind. The news was transmitted to the world on November 20, the same date that Bob Dylan was to begin a five-night run at London’s Brixton Academy. Nonetheless, the word of his passing sent reverberations rolling throughout the highest echelons of rock and roll. When that message did arrive, it might have seemed like a minor story to some, for Link Wray’s tremendous influence had always greatly outweighed his fame. Link Wray died of heart failure at the age of 76 in his adopted city of Copenhagen, Denmark, on November 5, 2005, but the news didn’t break worldwide until weeks later.
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