Bob Dylan papers, including unpublished lyrics, sell for $495KBOSTON: A long-lost trove of Bob Dylan documents sold at an auction for a total of $495,000. Auction said the collection from the late blues artist Tony Glover, a longtime Dylan friend, was sold as individual items. The collection included transcripts of Glover’s interviews with Dylan and letters they exchanged. The interviews reveal that Dylan had anti-Semitism on his mind when he changed his name from Robert Zimmerman, and that he wrote “Lay Lady Lay” for Barbra Streisand. Also auctioned were lyrics Dylan penned after visiting folk legend Woody Guthrie.

Source: Manila Times November 21, 2020 10:52 UTC