With Dylan fever within the air because of the current cinema launch of A Full Unknown, the timing was proper for the 2 yellow sheets to go up on the market at Julien’s Auctions in Beverly Hills, California.
The pages characteristic three typewritten lyrics of early drafts of the tune, with Dylan’s personal handwritten notes within the margins. The sheets are believed to have been typed within the dwelling of music journalist Al Aronowitz in March 1964, with the artist spending the night time writing and re-writing the tune on Aronowitz’s personal typewriter.
On the public sale, the pages fetched $508,000 (£417,000), whereas different Dylan-related tons included a 1983 Fender Telecaster and a 1968 oil portray created and signed by the singer-songwriter.
In March 1964, Bob Dylan wrote and rewrote “Mr. Tambourine Man” at Al Aronowitz’s New Jersey dwelling. Aronowitz rescued the crumpled lyrics from his trash—now anticipated to fetch as much as $600,000 at public sale. pic.twitter.com/cLTt6UDEIk
— Eric Alper 🎧 (@ThatEricAlper) January 15, 2025
‘Mr. Tambourine Man’ was launched on the basic 1965 album ‘Bringing It All Again Residence’. A month later, the tune reached Quantity One within the US and the UK in a full-band electrical cowl model by The Byrds, the primary Dylan composition to high both chart.
Aronowitz has mentioned he “discovered a waste basket filled with crumpled false begins” to the tune (by way of BBC). “I took the crumpled sheets, smoothed them out, learn the loopy leaping strains, smiled to myself on the leaps that by no means landed after which put the sheets right into a file folder,” he added.
The folks icon is portrayed by Timothée Chalamet in A Full Unknown, which lastly hit UK cinemas on Friday (January 17). It tells the story of Dylan’s rise as a breakout star of Greenwich Village’s folks scene within the early Sixties up till his controversial efficiency on the Newport People Pageant in 1965, the place he carried out dwell with electrical devices for the primary time.
NME has launched a particular print version journal celebrating the movie and the legacy of Dylan. The 26-page one-shot is on the market now – discover out the place to get it right here.
NME awarded A Full Unknown 4 stars, writing: “A very powerful (and sometimes trickiest) job of any music film is to get the music proper. And this nails that. For those who’re a Bob beginner, you’ll depart the cinema able to dive into his again catalogue. For those who’re already a fan, the following few weeks shall be spent making playlists of lesser-known B-sides or studying the lore round a scene you weren’t aware of. And that’s why it was a good suggestion to make this movie – a mad thought, however a superb one.”
