A collection of unpublished song lyrics and other papers of Bob Dylan’s has surfaced and sold at auction. The collection was owned by American blues artist Tony Glover who died last year and was a close friend of Bob Dylan’s. Items were sold as individual lots last week, with a majority of the key pieces going to an unidentified bidder.
Included were Dylan’s musings of anti-Semitism as well as Glover’s 1971 interviews with Dylan and letters the two exchanged. The interviews reveal that Dylan had anti-Semitism on his mind when he changed his name from Robert Zimmerman, and that he wrote “Lay Lady Lay” for Barbra Streisand.
Glover and Dylan broke into music in the same Minneapolis coffeehouse scene. Glover’s widow, Cynthia Nadler, put the documents up for auction online and they sold for $495,000.
TL;DR:
- A collection of unpublished song lyrics and other papers of Bob Dylan’s has surfaced and sold at auction for $495.000.
- The collection was owned by American blues artist Tony Glover who died last year.
- Included were interviews reveal that Dylan had anti-Semitism on his mind when he changed his name from Robert Zimmerman, and that he wrote “Lay Lady Lay” for Barbra Streisand.
