Dylan's Like a Rolling Stone lyrics fetch $2m record

A working draft of one of Bob Dylan's most popular songs, Like a Rolling Stone, has set a record at auction for a popular music manuscript.

The manuscript, said to be the only known draft of the final lyrics, garnered $2m (£1.2m) at Sotheby's.

Dylan wrote the song, about a debutante cast from upper-class society who becomes a loner, in 1965 at age 24.
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It was immortalised in pencil on four sheets of stationery from the Roger Smith Hotel in Washington DC.

Aside from the well-known lyrics - including "No direction home Like a complete unknown Like a rolling stone" - the manuscript also contains margin notes of song references, reminders and personal appointments, according to Sotheby's.

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