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Dylan's Like a Rolling Stone song lyrics sold for £2m

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

The manuscript, said to be the only known draft of the final lyrics, written in pencil on a hotel letterhead, garnered £1.2m at Sotheby's in New York.

The Dylan biographer Dennis McDougal spoke to Rhod.

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