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Bob Dylan album returned 48 years late UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS, Ohio (AP) — After nearly five decades of blowin’ in the wind, a double Bob Dylan album finally has a direction home: A man living in San Francisco has mailed the vinyl back to an Ohio library 48 years after it was supposed to be returned. Howard Simon recently sent the album along with a letter to Heights Libraries apologizing for his tardiness, according to a news release from the library system outside Cleveland. Simon checked out Dylan’s “Self Portrait” album in 1973 as an eighth-grader at a University Heights middle scho...

Howard Simon sent the album along with a letter to Heights Libraries apologising for his tardiness.

The record was a good 17,480 days overdue but he's "quite sorry" Photo: Howard Simon Published Jun 03, 2021 Back in 1973, an eighth-grader named Howard Simon borrowed a Bob Dylan record from the University Heights Public Library in Ohio. Now, 48 years later, Simon has finally returned the library's copy of Dylan's Self Portrait, along with an apology and a donation to make up for the thousands of days' worth of late fees. Chalking up his mega-tardy return to his "nomadic lifestyle" over the years, Simon, now 62 years old, shipped the original vinyl, along with a letter, back to Ohio from San...

The long-lost record was a copy of Dylan’s 1970 double album Self Portrait. In 1973, Howard Simon, then an eighth grader at Wiley Middle School in Cleveland Heights, checked out the LP from the University Heights branch of Heights Libraries. It was due back in June 1973, which means Simon returned it during the right month — he was just off by a few years. The story began making the rounds last week after Heights Libraries published an article about it on its blog. Sara Phillips, manager of the library’s University Heights branch, said the oddly shaped package caught her eye when it a...

Howard Simon, a retired biotech attorney and San Francisco resident, found a Bob Dylan...