Two pages of Bob Dylan's lyrics have sold for more than half a million dollars.
The 83-year-old singer was the subject of a sale from Julien's Auctions in Nashville, Tennessee, on Saturday, with over 60 items -- including photos, music sheets, a guitar and artwork -- going under the hammer, generating almost $1.5 million in both in-person and online bidding and sales.
And the typewritten two pages of Dylan's drafted lyrics to "Mr. Tambourine Man" accounted for one-third of the total sales, with the winning bidder agreeing to fork out $508,000.
The yellow sheets of paper also included the folk legend's handwritten annotations to the three drafts of the 1965 songs.
The next-highest-selling item was a 1968 oil-on-canvas painting created and signed by the singer in 1968, which went for $260,000.
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All but 10 of the lots were from the personal collection of late music journalist Al Aronowitz, whose son Myles told The New York Times he'd found Dylan's lyrics while searching through 250 boxes of his father's "remarkable" collection over a period of several years.
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