Bob Dylan’s Like a Rolling Stone sets record

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Bob Dylan’s original, handwritten manuscript for Like a Rolling Stone has sold for just over US$2 million (NZ$2.3m) at Sotheby’s rock and roll auction, which also included memorabilia from the Beatles, the Rolling Stones and Elvis Presley.

The price for the 1965 annotated lyrics for Like a Rolling Stone, considered one of the most influential songs in postwar music, makes it the most expensive rock music manuscript sold at auction.

It shattered the previous record set in 2010 when John Lennon’s handwritten lyrics for A Day in the Life, the final track from the 1967 album Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band sold for $1.2 million, according to

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