A previously unheard interview with Bob Dylan revealed that he had been addicted to heroin in the early 1960s and contemplated suicide after people started calling him a genius.
Excerpts from the tape, in which the 'Blowing in the Wind' singer gives an interview to his friend Robert Shelton on board a private plane in Lincoln, Nebraska bound for Denver after a concert late one night in March 1966, was published by the BBC news service.
Shelton describes the interview, in which Dylan admits he had been addicted to heroin in the early 1960s, as a "kaleidoscopic monologue". Dylan turned 70 on Tuesday.
I kicked a heroin habit in New York City. I got very, very strung out for a while, I mean really, very strung out. And I kicked the habit. I had about a $ 25-a-day habit and I kicked it," BBC quoted Dylan as saying.
There have been rumours that Dylan was involved with heroin but this may be the only time the singer admitted to the habit.
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