Julien's Auctions racked up $1.5 million with a collection of items once owned by Bob Dylan, including song drafts and signed handwritten lyrics.

The draft lyrics to Bob Dylan’s song “Mr. Tambourine Man” went for over a half-million dollars at a weekend auction for dozens of items related to the iconic American singer-songwriter.

The original lyrics came from the personal collection of late American journalist Al Aronowitz and date back to early 1964.

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 the draft lyrics to one of his most famous songs have sold at auction for $508,000.

A spectacular haul of Bob Dylan memorabilia, including early drafts of the singer and songwriter’s number 1 hit “Mr. Tambourine Man” and an original oil painting, will soon go under the hammer.

The top seller at the auction was the original typewritten draft lyrics to “Mr. Tambourine Man,” which sold for $508,000. Other notable top sellers included a signed original 1968 oil on canvas painting by Dylan for $260,000. Dylan’s owned and used 1983 Fender Telecaster sold for $222,250.

Bob Dylan ’s typewritten drafts for his hit 1965 song “Mr Tambourine Man” have sold for more than £400,000 at auction in Nashville, Tennessee. The two yellow sheets of paper contain three progressive drafts of the lyrics with annotations on the third draft of the song.

Two pages of lyrics, written in the kitchen of a pioneering rock ‘n’ roll journalist, offer glimpses into the Nobel Prize-winning musician’s writing process.