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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
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Eleanor Burnard

‘Extremely rare’ Bob Dylan draft lyrics discovered inside Allen Ginsberg book

Originally written and recorded in 1967 with then-backing group The Band, I’m Not There was released in 2007 and is held in high esteem among many Dylan fans.
I’m Not There was released in 2007 and is held in high esteem among many Bob Dylan fans. It was originally written and recorded in 1967 with then-backing group The Band. Photograph: Omega Auctions

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.

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