Answer: Bob Dylan

Here’s the rest of the Rock N’ Roll Diary for May 17:

• 1975: Mick Jagger was hospitalized with a severe gash requiring twenty stitches after he accidentally put his hand through the window of a Long Island restaurant…
• 1975: Elton John was awarded a platinum disc for sales of a million copies of Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy. The album was the 1st in the history of the recording industry to be certified platinum on the day of its release…
• 1986: A concert in Dublin called “Self-Aid” was held. The Show, which benefited the city’s unemployed, starred U2, Van Morrison, Bob Geldof and several other Irish artists…
• 1987: Tom Petty’s home in Los Angeles burned to the ground…
• 2006: Paul McCartney and Heather Mills confirmed that they had split up. It was the beginning of a long and messy public divorce…
• Checking the WZLX ticket stash: The Velvet Underground was at the Boston Tea Party in 1968…In ’69 it was Jimi Hendrix at the Rhode Island Auditorium in Providence…The Allman Brothers played Tufts in 1971…And in ’77 it was Procol Harum at the Harvard Square Theatre.

A rare photo of the Beatles walking in the opposite direction from the original album cover on Abbey Road may fetch around $16,000 (£10,000) at an auction on May 22.

It is one of only six pictures taken during the shoot by photographer Iain McMillan.

In the reverse photo the Beatles walk right to left and Paul is wearing leather sandals. See the photo here.

The photo has been in the hands of a private collector who has decided to put it up for auction at the London-based Bloomsbury auctions.

Sarah Wheeler, a music specialist from Bloomsbury told The Sun about the picture, saying, “Macmillan had 10 minutes to do the shoot and he took six photographs of the Beatles walking backwards and forwards across the zebra crossing.

“He was standing up a ladder to take the pictures. In the one we have Paul McCartney is wearing sandals and in the image that was finally used he is barefoot.

“The photo has been called an icon of the 1960s. I think the reason it became so popular is its simplicity. It’s a very simple, stylized shot and is a shot people can relate to.

“The Beatles walked forwards and backwards three times and by pure chance a VW Beetle is in the background. That car is now in a museum.”

The image is also signed by Macmillian, who died in 2006. The 18×18 print is one of only 25 made from the original frame.

-Garret Heinrich 98.7 KLUV

However, Cooper’s cameo in Dark Shadows is far from his first. Let’s revisit Cooper’s past appearances on the silver screen throughout the last 40+ years.

1970: Several months before Cooper got his first taste of musical success with the single “I’m Eighteen,” the Alice Cooper group appeared in the drama Diary of a Mad Housewife, performing as themselves at a loft part in the film.

1978: If you were a music star in the late 1970s, chances are you were tapped for a cameo in the musical film interpretation of The Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. Peter Frampton and the Bee Gees led the brigade, but Alice Cooper made an appearance playing a villain named the Sun King, after the Abbey Road song of the same name.

On the set of musical comedy Sextette, Cooper wasn’t the only rock’n'roller. Ringo Starr had a supporting role in the Mae West/Tony Curtis film, while Cooper made a brief appearance as a waiter.

1980: The largely forgotten rock’n'roll film Roadie gave Meat Loaf his first starring role, but a music movie wouldn’t be complete without a few more rock stars thrown in. Alice Cooper had a handful of scenes playing himself – some of which involve his fondness for snakes – in Roadie, as did Blondie, Roy Orbison and Hank Williams Jr. Cooper also performed a handful of songs in the film’s concert scenes, including “Pain.”

1984: In Spanish horror flick Monster Dog, Cooper plays the lead role of rock star Vince Raven, who leads his entourage to his murder-struck hometown for a video shoot.

1987: In John Carpenter’s horror flick Prince of Darkness, Cooper plays “Street Schizo,” a murder whose weapon of choice is a bicycle.

1991: Though Cooper goes uncredited, he played Freddy Krueger’s father in the 1991 slasher film Freddy’s Dead: The Final Nightmare, the sixth film in the Freddy Krueger series.

1992: Among his cameos, Cooper’s appearance in the original Wayne’s World film is likely his most memorable. After Wayne and Garth attend Alice’s concert – a scene in which he performs 1992 single “Feed My Frankenstein” – they go backstage to chat with Cooper. He shocks them not with any crazy stunts, but rather, by presenting a history lesson on the city of Milwaukee.

2001: Seth Green horror flick The Attic Expeditions got an authentic touch via Cooper, who took his straight jacket costume to the next level in the role of mental patient Samuel Leventhal.

2009: In the 2009 vampire-themed dark comedy Suck, Cooper joined a slew of rock stars including Iggy Pop, Henry Rollins, Alex Lifeson of Rush and more in guest appearances. Cooper played a vampire bartender in the Canadian film.

2010: Cooper makes an appearances as himself in the 2010′s Horrorween, a horror film with a sci-fi slant that also included cameos from William Shatner and Flavor Flav.

2012: Though Cooper’s appearance in Dark Shadows was certainly not his first cameo, it may be his most elaborate. At the film’s premiere, Cooper performed “No More Mr. Nice Guy” with its star Depp and Aerosmith’s Steven Tyler and Joe Perry (who also appeared with Cooper in Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band). And Cooper sits at the centerpiece of a soundtrack stacked with ’70s music stars: The Moody Blues (with “Nights in White Satin”), Black Sabbath (with “Paranoid”), The Carpenters (with “Top of the World”), Barry White (with “You’re the First, the Last, My Everything”) and more. The soundtrack drops this Tuesday (May 22).

–Jillian Mapes, CBS Local

Original Free members Andy Fraser, Paul Rodgers and Simon Kirke toyed with the idea of bringing Kossoff back via holograph after they were asked to perform at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London.

It would have been the first time the original band appeared on stage together since Fraser’s departure in 1972.

“I always figured we would re-marry our ex-wives before getting back together,” Fraser told Classic Rock. “But the event was such that I felt I should put aside my personal demons.”

Free, best known for the hit 1970 song “All Right Now,” disbanded partially because of Kossoff’s drug addiction – an addiction that lead to his 1976 death at the age of 25.

With Tupac Shakur’s holographic on-stage appearance at last month’s Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, talk about using the technology to recreate dead musicians’ performances has taken over the concert scene.

While die-hard fans and concert enthusiasts weigh the pros and cons of using technology to imitate dead rockers, more big names like Queen have said they will be using some sort of optical illusion to recreate late frontman Freddie Mercury for the band’s musical “We Will Rock You.”

Fraser said the band was considering looking at potential replacement guitarists for the ceremony but those plans have since fallen through.

He said the million-dollar price tag for the hologram and his own reservations about artificially recreating Kossoff put an end to the idea of Free reuniting for the games.

“One of the things that is difficult in my mind is that Paul was the soul of the band in many respects, and I hesitate to mess with that,” he said. “I don’t see it coming together now.”

- John Milligan / 98.5 WNCX

Sir Paul performed in front of 200,000 people at Mexico City’s historic central square, The Zolcalo, for the final performance of his Latin American tour.

During the performance Paul was joined on stage by a traditional Mexican mariachi band to sing the Beatles’ hit “Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da.” The crowd went crazy for the performance.

The concert, which was free, was sponsored by the Mexico City mayor’s office. People camped out overnight in anticipation to see the former mop-topper.

“It was quite emotional and exciting that people who might not be able to afford to come to our shows could come to this. It was like Beatlemania all over again,” said McCartney according to Hello Magazine.

“When you visit places that you don’t often come to, like South America, they’ve been saving up the excitement so when you get there they let it all go,” he went on to say.

McCartney performed two nights before the free event for 70,000 people at Azteca stadium.

-Garret Heinrich 98.7KLUV