A torn page bearing Dylan’s lyrics for the 1967 song I’m Not There is set to go under the hammer in April when it could fetch £40,000
Almost 60 years after it was first typed out by Bob Dylan, a torn page of lined paper bearing a draft for the lyrics of I’m Not There has been discovered, tucked inside an Allen Ginsberg paperback.
During the summer of 1967 in New York, just outside Woodstock, Bob Dylan wrote and recorded more than 100 songs with his then-backing group The Band, including I’m Not There. A small collection of these tapes would be released eight years later by Columbia Records, while more songs, including I’m Not There, would only be released over the following decades.
I’m Not There was finally released as part of the soundtrack for Todd Haynes’ 2007 Dylan film of the same name, and the track is held in high esteem among many Dylan fans.
A draft of the track’s lyrics was recently discovered inside a first-edition paperback of Allen Ginsberg’s Ankor Wat once owned by Sally Grossman, the wife of Dylan’s first manager, Albert Grossman, and a close friend of the singer. She appears with Dylan on the cover of his 1965 album Bringing It All Back Home.
