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Bob Dylan’s Original Lyrics to ‘Mr. Tambourine Man’ Sell for Over $500K
The original lyrics came from the personal collection of late American journalist Al Aronowitz and date back to early 1964.
Tambourine Man’ one night in my house in Berkeley Heights, N.J., sitting with my portable typewriter at my white formica breakfast bar in a swirl of chain-lit cigaret [sic] smoke, his bony, long-nailed fingers tapping the words out on my stolen, canary-colored Saturday Evening Post copy paper while the whole time, over and over again, Marvin Gaye sang ‘Can I Get a Witness?’ from the 6-foot speakers of my hi-fi in the room next to where he was, with Bob getting up from the typewriter each time the record finished in order to put the needle back at the start.” “I took it out the side door to empty it into the trash can when a whispering emotion caught me, like a breeze that sometimes gently stops you cold just because of its own ghostly power to make you notice it. The sale of the lyrics is just another Dylan-related happening in recent months, with the venerated artist’s profile and legacy being thrust into the public eye as a result of James Mangold’s A Complete Unknown biopic.
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