The auction house Sotheby's announced that on September 29 it will put on sale in London an unpublished manuscript of the song «A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall"To Bob Dylan, for an estimated price between 150.000 and 200.000 pounds (between 207.000 and 275.000 euros).
"A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall," the "best protest song from the best protest singer," as defined by Rolling Stone magazine, was written by Dylan in New York in 1962, when the artist was just 21 years old. The typescript manuscript will go on sale 53 years after it was created in a "Rock & Pop" auction, which will also feature guitars, posters and records by iconic bands.
A collection of covers designed by pop artist Andy Warhol between 1949 and 1990 will go up for auction for between 30.000 and 50.000 pounds (between 41.200 and 69.000 euros), as will an autographed manuscript of the song "Ambitionz Az a Ridah" (1995) , from the American rapper 2pac. In addition, the Beatles album "Please please me" (1963), signed by the four members of the group, will be offered under the hammer for between 15.000 and 20.000 pounds (between 20.600 and 41.200 euros), and a Fender Stratocaster electric guitar that It belongs to British guitarist Eric Clapton, for the same price.
In its latest music-related bids, Sotheby's auctioned manuscripts of the song "Like a Rolling Stone" by Sotheby's at its New York headquarters. Bob Dylan, for more than two million dollars, and the song "A Day in the Life", by John Lennon, for 1,2 million dollars.
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