Bob Dylan's 'Hard Rain' lyrics going up for auction at Sotheby's
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The draft lyrics for one of Bob Dylan's most influential early songs is going up for auction next month. Sotheby's said Tuesday it expects the manuscript of "A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall" to fetch $235,000-$314,000 at a Sept. 29 London sale. The auction house says Dylan typed out the lyrics, and made amendments in ink, in a room above the Gaslight Folk Club in New York's Greenwich Village in 1962. It says the revisions show the creative process behind the landmark song, which portends a revolutionary or cataclysmic change. Last year the final hand-written lyrics to the song sold for $485,000 at Sotheby's in New York. At the same sale a draft of Dylan's "Like a Rolling Stone" sold for $2 million.
