Bob Dylan
A fan can now purchase his will
A draft of the lyrics to “Mr. Tambourine Man” fetched over half a million dollars – you have to offer less for Bob Dylan’s will.
Anyone who has $27,500 left can buy Bob Dylan’s (83) will. The specialist in autographs and official documents offers the musician’s last will at this price. Or an appendix to the will, to be precise.
The will is dated September 22, 1975. Bob Dylan was only 34 years old at the time. But he has been successful in the music business for over ten years. It is rather unlikely that this is really his last wish and that he did not change his will in the meantime. Otherwise it probably wouldn’t have ended up in the hands of “Moments of Time”. How it got there is unknown.
$50,000 for Bob Dylan’s brother
In the document, Bob Dylan remembers his younger brother David Zimmerman (78). If he survives him, he will inherit $50,000. In addition, David is to be given the property in which he already lives. It is a ten-acre property in Minnesota. Bob Dylan was born in the US state on May 24, 1941.
He also takes financial care of his children if they survive. At that time, Dylan already had five children with his then wife Sara Dylan (85). In 1986 he was joined by daughter Desiree (38) from his second marriage to Carolyn Dennis (70). It wasn’t until 2001, nine years after their divorce, that Bob Dylan and Carolyn Dennis announced they had a child.
The will is signed “Robert Dylan”. After all, it is an official document. Robert Dylan is the superstar’s real name after he gave up his birth name Robert Allen Zimmerman in 1962.
Over half a million dollars for draft text
Independently of the will, another auction house was auctioning off additional documents from Bob Dylan’s possessions. In Nashville, for example, a draft of the lyrics to his 1965 song “Mr. Tambourine Man” went under the hammer. Julien’s Auctions received $508,000 for two yellowed sheets.
The draft of Dylan’s first song, which made it to number 1 in the USA, was typed on a typewriter and the songwriter added handwritten notes. It was owned by the late journalist Al Aronowitz, in whose house Dylan wrote the text. Aronowitz rescued the draft from the trash.
In total, the Dylan auction by Julien’s Auctions generated almost $1.5 million. A buyer paid $260,000 for an oil painting that Bob Dylan painted in 1968. A guitar sold for $222,000.
Bob Dylan is once again on everyone’s lips at the moment. “A Complete Unknown” opened in US cinemas on December 25, 2014. The biopic with Timothée Chalamet (29) starts on February 27, 2025.
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