Bob Dylan 'Like a Rolling Stone' Handwritten Lyrics
- Maker
- Bob Dylan
- Year
- 1965
- Rank
- 37 of 100
Bob Dylan 'Like a Rolling Stone' Handwritten Lyrics
Bob Dylan 'Like a Rolling Stone' Handwritten Lyrics by Bob Dylan (1965) is ranked 37 in the FLOAT 100 for Memorabilia. It sold for $2,045,000 on 24 June 2014. Set the all-time record for any rock lyric manuscript.
What is it, and why is it in the FLOAT 100?
Set the all-time record for any rock lyric manuscript.
Pencil working draft on Roger Smith Hotel letterhead; the only known surviving final-lyric draft
What is the best-sourced number for it?
- Figure
- $2,045,000
- Kind
- Realized at auction
- Date
- 24 June 2014
Sotheby's New York. $2.045M.
This is a realized sale. Somebody paid it. Source.
How this is made
- The figure
- One reference price, taken from a named public source and shown with its own kind. FLOAT does not average it with anything or adjust it for time.
- Realized or not
- A realized price is a completed sale. A market asking price and a price-guide value are not sales, and are labeled as such wherever they appear.
- Why no grade ladder
- Most FLOAT 100 entries are individual objects. There is one of this, so there is no population and no spread across grades to show.
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- 2026-08-08