Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music CriticA newly recorded, one-of-a-kind record of Bob Dylan singing “Blowin’ in the Wind” sold at an auction at Christie’s in London Thursday for over its estimated value — going for 1.2 million pounds, or just under $1.5 million in U.S.
dollars.The actual amount of the winning bid in American dollars works out to $1,441,045 under current exchange rates. The 1.2 million pounds sales price was well over the estimate the auction house had posted for the record, which was in the range of 600,000 to 1 million pounds (or, in U.S.
dollars, $716,000-$1,194,000).Although two people could be seen on the live feed volleying back and forth as the top bidders, consulting with buyers on the phone, the auction’s winner was not immediately revealed.
The “Blowin’ in the Wind” record was the only remotely freshly minted item in Christie’s “Classic Week” sale. The other items being auctioned prior to Dylan’s new record being the climax of the sale were more along the lines of an Egyptian limestone statue from circa 2400 B.C., which went for 5 million pounds, and a Stradivari violin that had a starting bid of 6 million pounds.The new version of Dylan’s 1962 folk classic was produced by T Bone Burnett with a small band of musicians, with Dylan recorded in Los Angeles and the rest of the group in Nashville.
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