Levy's collaborations with Dylan may overshadow his achievements in drama. Post-Chestnut Mare, other songs Levy co-wrote appeared on Byrds albums and Levy wrote lyrics for other 1970s McGuinn albums. Then Kenneth Tynan picked him for the New York production of Oh! Calcutta!, which ran until 1972. Two years later he directed Jean-Claude van Italie's America Hurrah. Back in New York he practised as a clinical psychologist, but in 1965 he also directed Sam Shepherd's play, Red Cross. In 1975, Levy effectively stage-managed Dylan's Rolling Thunder Revue.Р”В«orn in New York, Levy was educated at the City College there and took a doctorate in psychology from Michigan State University. Much of Desire's success lay in the interplay between Dylan and Levy and since then Dylan and his musicians have often reworked Levy's contribution. Then came Dylan's great album Desire, which featured seven songs co-written by Levy and Dylan including Hurricane, a chagrin-driven tale about the unjustly imprisoned boxer Rubin 'Hurricane' Carter. An early result of their brainstorming was the song Isis. The musical stalled, but one song, Chestnut Mare, co-written by McGuinn and Levy, became one of the Byrds' greatest performances. It was that show which brought him to the attention of Roger McGuinn of the Byrds, who fancied Levy as librettist for a project inspired by Peer Gynt. In 1969, Jacques Levy, who has died of cancer aged 69, became director of the erotic revue Oh! Calcutta!, off-Broadway.

Roger mcguinn family