Bob Dylan sells treasure trove of archive material

Bob Dylan has sold his personal archive of notes, draft lyrics, poems, artwork and photographs to the University of Tulsa, where they will be made available to scholars and curated for public exhibitions, the school said on Wednesday.

The 6,000 item collection spans nearly the entire length of Dylan’s 55 year-long career, and many have never been seen before. The collection was acquired by the George Kaiser Foundation and the University of Tulsa in Oklahoma.

The collection also includes master recording tapes of Dylan’s entire music catalog, along with hundreds of hours of film video.

The Foundation and the university did not say how much the Bob Dylan Archive cost, but the New York Times, which was given an exclusive preview, said it was sold for $15 million to $20 million.

Tulsa is also the home of a museum dedicated to folk singer Woody Guthrie, one of Dylan’s early influences.

“I’m glad that my archives, which have been collected all these years, have finally found a home and are to be included with the works of Woody Guthrie… To me, it makes a lot of sense and it’s a great honor,” Dylan said in a statement.

Despite being regarded as “the voice of a generation” for his influential songs of the 1960s and 1970s, Dylan, now 74, has mostly kept his items out of the public eye, resulting in high prices when they occasionally come up for auction.

A handwritten copy of the song “Like a Rolling Stone” sold for a record $2 million at a New York auction in 2014, while the electric guitar he played at 1965 Newport Folk Festival sold for nearly $1 million in 2013.

The archives handed over to the University of Tulsa include two notebooks with lyrics from the 1975 album “Blood on the Tracks,” and Dylan’s handwritten lyrics to his 1964 song “Chimes of Freedom” scrawled on hotel notepaper dotted with cigarette burns. There is also correspondence between Dylan and the late beat poet Allen Ginsberg.

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One Direction Get Campy With 'Live While We're Young' Art

The One Direction guys had a little treat for all the Directioners on Friday (September 14). They released the artwork for their "Live While We're Young" single on Twitter, weeks ahead of the single's October 1 release.

The "*amazing* new artwork," as they called it on Twitter, features the fivesome enjoying the outdoors during a camping trip, goofing off outside a tent. Shortly after they released the image, Liam Payne tweeted, "Cant wait for the single to come outtttt."

Perhaps camping is pop's latest pastime, as Carly Rae Jepsen and Owl City pitched a tent for their "Good Time" video earlier this summer.

The 1D boys will also take their antics outside for the "Live While We're Young" video. Shot back in August when the guys were in their native U.K., the video has a summer music festival vibe and has the guys getting wet and wild, acting silly with props and getting soaked by water guns.

"Live While We're Young" is the lead single off the boys' sophomore album release, Take Me Home. Out November 13, the album features work from Savan Kotecha, Rami Yacoub and Carl Falk — the team that also worked with the guys on their debut, including the hits "One Thing" and "What Makes You Beautiful." They also worked with fellow Up All Night alum, Ed Sheeran, who tells MTV News he wrote love songs for the guys.

"Seventeen-year-old Ed just wrote a lot of love songs, so expect to hear a lot of love songs on their album, I guess," he shared with MTV News about the vintage jams he gave his pals this time around.

source: mtv.com

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