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How does it feel, Bob Dylan might be asking next week, when a piece of paper you've written on sells for millions of dollars. Sotheby's New York will next week host an auction of rock memorabilia that includes the original hand-written lyrics for Like a Rolling Stone, and estimates the sheet of paper will fetch beween $1m (£592,000) and $2m. | |
Like a Rolling Stone is considered one of the most influential songs of the rock era, topping Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest songs of all time in 2010, and inspiring scores of musicians, including Bruce Springsteen. "The first time I heard Bob Dylan, I was in the car with my mother listening to WMCA, and on came that snare shot that sounded like somebody'd kicked open the door to your mind," Springsteen said of first hearing the song, when he inducted Dylan into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1988. It's even inspired whole books, such as Greil Marcus's Like a Rolling Stone: Bob Dylan at the Crossroads, published in 2005. | |
It took Dylan 48 years to make a video for the song, which came out in 1965; in 2013, he released an interactive video for Like a Rolling Stone, featuring an array of celebrities including rapper Danny Brown, TV personality Drew Carey, and members of the cast of the reality show Pawn Stars. | |
The manuscript going on sale next week consists of four pages, and includes unused lines, what Sotheby's describes as "stray thoughts on American cultural imagery, and interesting doodles". It will be part of a sale of memorabilia including items related to the Beatles. Jimi Hendrix and Joni Mitchell. Also on sale will be Dylan's original working manuscript for the lyrics for A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall, which Sotheby's estimates will fetch between $400,000 (£237,000) and $600,000 (£355,000). The bookmaker Paddy Power is offering odds of 8/11 that the Like a Rolling Stone manuscript will fetch more than $2m. | |
In 2010 John Lennon's handwritten lyrics sold at Sotheby's New York for $1.2m (£710,000), the record for a sale of a pop lyric manuscript. |