Artistic drafts often end up in trash bins, hidden in family estate collections, or lost to time’s effect on memory, but a Bob Dylan lyric draft has recently been saved from any of these fates as it ...

Bob Dylan’s legendary “Mr. Tambourine Man,” one of the defining folk-rock tracks of the 1960s, has once again captured the spotlight—but this time, it’s not through a song recording. The original ...

The first time Roger McGuinn met Hal Blaine was in January 1965, at the recording session for “Mr. Tambourine Man.” McGuinn had recently formed his new band, the Byrds, but the full group wasn’t ready ...

Almost 60 years to the day since it was first recorded, the original lyrics to Bob Dylan’s “Mr. Tambourine Man” have sold at auction for a total of $508,000. The lyrics were sold via Julien’s Auctions ...

Two pages of Bob Dylan’s drafted lyrics to “Mr. Tambourine Man” were auctioned for over half a million dollars. On Saturday, Jan. 18 in Nashville, Julien’s Auctions hosted an auction to sell 60 items ...

""For Gene, it was all about the lyrics,"" states Einarson at the outset of his latest book on rock music. Einarson devotes several pages to exploring Clark's gene pool, dwelling on the singer's ...

The Byrds were famously the first rock ’n’ roll band to be signed to Columbia Records – no mean feat considering the label's longstanding love affair with jazz and classical Broadway show tunes, ...

A: Roger McGuinn, Gene Clark and David Crosby began playing together in the 1964 under various names before signing a recording contract with Columbia Records and changing their name to the Byrds.

Draft lyrics to Bob Dylan's song "Mr. Tambourine Man" went for over a half-million dollars as part of a weekend sale of ...

Bob Dylan is enjoying yet another wave of recognition with his story of coming to superstardom being told in the film A Complete Unknown. Now, BBC News reports that two pages of old paper containing ...

Byrds fans were dealt a disappointing bit of news yesterday when a representative for Roger McGuinn totally rebuffed David Crosby’s public offer to reunite the group. “Neither Roger or Chris [Hillman] ...