{"id":8586,"date":"2014-05-02T14:59:50","date_gmt":"2014-05-02T06:59:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=8586"},"modified":"2014-05-02T14:59:50","modified_gmt":"2014-05-02T06:59:50","slug":"dylans-working-draft-of-like-a-rolling-stone-heads-to-auction-could-bring-up-to-2-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/05\/02\/dylans-working-draft-of-like-a-rolling-stone-heads-to-auction-could-bring-up-to-2-million\/","title":{"rendered":"Dylan’s working draft of ‘Like a Rolling Stone’ heads to auction, could bring up to $2 million"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Photo: Facebook Page of Bob Dylan<\/em><\/p>\n

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NEW YORK\u2014 One of the most popular songs of all time, Bob Dylan’s“Like a Rolling Stone,” is going to auction this summer.<\/p>\n

Sotheby’s is offering a working draft of the finished song, in Dylan’s own hand, for an estimated $1 million to $2 million.<\/p>\n

The song is about a debutante who becomes a loner when she’s cast from upper-class social circles.<\/p>\n

The draft is written in pencil on four sheets of hotel letterhead stationery with revisions, additions, notes and doodles: a hat, a bird, an animal with antlers. The stationery comes from the Roger Smith hotel in Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n

“How does it feel To be on your own” it says in Dylan’s handwriting. “No direction home Like a complete unknown Like a rolling stone.”<\/p>\n

Scrawls seem to reflect the artist’s experimentation with rhymes.<\/p>\n

The name “Al Capone” is scrawled in the margin, with a line leading to the lyrics “Like a complete unknown.”<\/p>\n

Another note says: “…dry vermouth, you’ll tell the truth…”<\/p>\n

Dylan was only 24 when he recorded the song in 1965.<\/p>\n

The auction is June 24 as part of Sotheby’s rock and pop music sale.<\/p>\n

Sotheby’s described the seller as a longtime fan from California “who met his hero in a non-rock context and bought directly from Dylan.” He was not identified.<\/p>\n

Sotheby’s says it is “the only known surviving draft of the final lyrics for this transformative rock anthem.”<\/p>\n

In 2010, John Lennon’s handwritten lyrics for “A Day in the Life,” the final track on the Beatles’ classic 1967 album “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band,” sold for $1.2 million, the record for such a sale.<\/p>\n

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