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A long-lost treasure trove of Bob Dylan documents, including the singer-songwriter’s reflections on anti-Semitism and unpublished lyrics, was auctioned for a total of 495. $ 000.
R. . R.. . Auction said Friday (Nov. . 20) The collection of the late American blues artist Tony Glover, a longtime Dylan’s friend and confidante, was sold as single lots on Thursday, with much of the key items going to a bidder whose identity has not been released.
The collection contained transcripts of Glover’s 1971 interviews with Dylan and letters the couple had exchanged. The interviews show that Dylan had anti-Semitism in mind when he changed his name from Robert Zimmerman and that he wrote “Lay Lady Lay” for Barbra Streisand.
Dylan, 79, was close to Glover, who died last year. The two men made music in the same coffee house scene in Minneapolis. Glover’s widow, Cynthia Nadler, put the documents up for auction online.
Reclusive Dylan won the 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature after giving the world « Blowin ‘in the Wind, » « Like a Rolling Stone, » « The Times They Are A-Changin » and other hymns of the tumultuous 1960s would have.
The auctioned items included texts Dylan wrote after folk legend Woody Guthrie visited in May 1962. The lines that were published just last month are:
« My eyes are broken. I think I was framed. / I can’t seem to remember the sound of my name. / What did he teach you? I heard someone scream. / Did he teach you to make &? teach you to expose, respect and repent of the blues / No Jack he taught me how to sleep in my shoes. ”
In a conversation with Glover in 1971, Dylan discussed why he changed his name and said, “Many people get the impression that Jews are just moneylenders and merchants. ”
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World News – AU – Bob Dylan Papers, including unpublished texts, are for 495. $ 000 sold at auction
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