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THE original lyrics Bob Dylan wrote for iconic song Like A Rolling Stone have sold for a record $2million (£1.18million) at auction.

 

Bob Dylan's original lyrics for Like A Rolling Stone have sold for a record amount at auction[AP & MERCURY]

The draft of the classic tune from 1965 has become the world's most expensive pop song after selling at auction to an unidentified telephone bidder.

The track features on Dylan's album Highway 61 Revisited and was written when the US singer-songwriter was just 24-years-old.

The lyrics were scrawled on four pages of paper from the Robert Smith hotel in Washington and features doodles of a hat and a chicken in the margins.

The song is widely considered one of the most important tracks in rock history.

The draft of the classic tune from 1965 sold for £1.18million [MERCURY]

Like A Rolling Stone is widely considered one of the most important tracks in rock history

The manuscript was sold at Sotheby's New York auction house who said the seller was a long-time Dylan fan from California.

The Like a Rolling Stone lyrics were the main attraction in the Sotheby's Rock & Roll History: From Presley to Punk auction.

The manuscript had the line from the first verse "everybody that was down and out" crossed out to say "everybody that was hanging out".

It is thought the sale of Dylan's lyrics has set a new world record for the auction of a pop song manuscript.

Like A Rolling Stone features on Bob Dylan's album Highway 61 Revisited [PH]

In 2010 John Lennon's lyrics for A Day in the Life, the final track from the 1967 album Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club, sold for $1.2million (£710,000).

Dylan, 73, has written and composed more than 30 albums since he first rose to prominence in the early Sixties.

He was been awarded 11 Grammy's, an Oscar, for his song Things Have Changed for the 2000 film Wonder Boys, and a Golden Globe Award.