Bob Dylan's 'Like a Rolling Stone' lyrics sell for record $2m
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Singer songwriter Bob Dylan performs on stage |
The folk star's
manuscript has overtaken John Lennon's as most expensive
Bob Dylan's lyric manuscript for "Like A Rolling Stone" has become
the most expensive ever sold.
The working draft for the folk singer-songwriter's classic hit,
written in his handwriting, fetched just over $2 million (£1.2 million)
at Sotheby's auction house. The winning bidder is an anonymous buyer who
reports say is a long-time Dylan fan from California.
Sotheby's has confirmed that the manuscript is "the only known
surviving draft of the final lyrics for this transformative rock
anthem".
The four sheets of Roger Smith Hotel paper features notes, revisions
and doodles of an antlered animal, a bird and a hat, The Hollywood
Reporter reports.
One abandoned lyric refers to US Prohibition gangster Al Capone.
Dylan's manuscript has now beaten John Lennon's "A Day in the Life"
in the record price stakes. The late Beatle's handwritten draft sold for
$1.2 million (£706,980) in 2010.
-The Independent |
