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This Bob Dylan Memorabilia That Was Almost Thrown Away Just Sold for $508K · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.
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  Speaker 2: You could argue the words Bob Dylan sings in his
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  Speaker 2: groundbreaking nineteen sixty five hit Mister Tambourine Man and their
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  Speaker 2: contribution to American culture are priceless, but the lyrics themselves
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  Speaker 2: they'll run you precisely. Five hundred and eight thousand dollars.
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  Speaker 2: Two sheets of typewritten yellow paper containing three drafts of
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  Speaker 2: the iconic lyrics were just auctioned over a half a
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  Speaker 2: million dollars, sixty years after the song was recorded. What's
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  Speaker 2: particularly interesting about these pages' origins is how Dylan's friend,
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  Speaker 2: the late journalist al Aronowitz, and their original owner, cand
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  Speaker 2: to possess them. He was hosting Bob at his New
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  Speaker 2: York apartment when Bob wrote Mister Tambourine Man one faithful evening.
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  Speaker 2: The next morning, I went to toss the crumbling pages
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  Speaker 2: from Bob's waste basket into the trash, but instead faithfully
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  Speaker 2: chose to keep them and tuck them into a folder.
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  Speaker 2: Sixty years later, those sheets, which were on the verge
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  Speaker 2: of becoming trash, are now worth over a half a
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  Speaker 2: million dollars. A complete unknown The Bob Dylan biopic is
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  Speaker 2: in theaters.
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  Speaker 1: That's direct from Hollywood