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Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen (born September 23, 1949) is an American singer, songwriter, and musician. He has released 20 studio albums, most of which feature his backing band, the E Street Band. Originally from the Jersey Shore, he is one of the originators of the heartland rock style of music, combining mainstream rock musical style with narrative songs about working class American life. During a career that has spanned six decades, Springsteen has become known for his poetic, socially conscious lyrics and energetic stage performances, sometimes lasting up to four hours in duration. He has been nicknamed “The Boss”.
Below is a recent realized price for a Bruce Springsteen handwritten lyrics item. We at Nate D. Sanders Auctions can obtain up to this amount or more for you:
Bruce Springsteen Handwritten Lyrics. Sold for over $10,000.
Here is a Bruce Springsteen related item we have sold in the past:
USA for Africa poster signed by 24 of its altruistic all-star members, plus a fingerprint by Stevie Wonder. The super-group was assembled to record the single ”We Are The World” to raise funds for famine relief in Ethiopia. The song soared as the first single ever to reach multi-platinum in sales. Large poster is signed by Harry Belafonte as co-creator of the project and by performers Bruce Springsteen (who rarely signed), Michael Jackson, Billy Joel, Stevie Wonder (with fingerprint), Diana Ross, Dionne Warwick, Kenny Rogers, Smokey Robinson, Lionel Richie, Steve Perry, Jeffrey Osborne, Daryl Hall, John Oates, Huey Lewis, Quincy Jones, Anita Pointer, Ruth Pointer, Marlon Jackson, La Toya Jackson, Johnny Colla, Sheila E., Kim Carnes, Dan Aykroyd and Lindsey Buckingham. Signatures, mostly rendered in felt tip, appear in different colors – black, red, blue, light blue, brown and pink. White poster with black logo measures 20” x 24”. Light creasing, otherwise near fine. Comes with an 8.5” x 11” document on USA for Africa letterhead listing the performers, with those who signed this poster highlighted. Sold for $1,513.
Here are some handwritten lyrics we have sold in the past:
One of the most covered and influential songs of all time, ”Like a Rolling Stone” lyrics are here handwritten and signed by their creator, Bob Dylan. With this song, Dylan reinvigorated his passion for his own work and fully embraced rock music (”play it fucking loud” he told his band) as a complement to folk. Clocking in at 6 1/2 minutes long, the song was initially thought too long to be commercially successful, until listeners in the mid-60s harassed radio stations to play it in its entirety. ”Like a Rolling Stone” has been covered by Jimi Hendrix, The Rolling Stones and countless others, and inspired even more. Bruce Springsteen first heard it when he was 15 years old: ”on came that snare shot that sounded like somebody’d kicked open the door to your mind…The way that Elvis freed your body, Dylan freed your mind, and showed us that because the music was physical did not mean it was anti-intellect. He had the vision and talent to make a pop song so that it contained the whole world. He invented a new way a pop singer could sound, broke through the limitations of what a recording could achieve, and he changed the face of rock’n’roll for ever and ever.” Perhaps the greatest mystery in music is trying to figure out who Dylan is referring to in the song — even Andy Warhol has been mentioned — but ultimately, rock historians believe it speaks to anyone, even Dylan himself, who eschews an easy, pretentious life for one that is riskier but ultimately more fulfilling, with ”nothing to lose” and ”no secrets to conceal”. Single page measures 8.5” x 11”. In near fine condition. With COA from Jeff Rosen, Bob Dylan’s manager. Sold for $90,000.
Bob Dylan Handwritten & Signed Lyrics to “The Times They Are a-Changin’” — The Song of a Generation
Scarce handwritten and signed lyrics by Nobel-Prize winning lyricist Bob Dylan of his classic, “The Times They Are a-Changin’”. Considered one of the greatest songs ever written, its powerful lyrics have transcended the political turbulence of the 1960s that gave birth to them to inspire subsequent generations, revealing their timelessness in the human experience. In recent years, Dylan has shied away from playing his masterpiece in concert which has imbued it with an almost mythical quality. Dozens of major recording artists have covered the song through the years, including Simon & Garfunkel, Peter Paul & Mary, The Beach Boys, Nina Simone, Billy Joel, Joan Baez, Tracy Chapman, Bryan Ferry and Bruce Springsteen to name a few. Dylan wrote the song in the fall of 1963, shortly after Martin Luther King Jr.’s March on Washington, wanting to create an anthem for social justice. As he said, folk music and the Civil Rights movement were natural allies and he felt he could make a contribution to the movement by writing a powerful, “hypnotic” anthem. It is one of the songs that earned Dylan a Nobel Prize in Literature, as the Nobel Committee wrote: “for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition.” Handwritten lyrics by Dylan read in full, “The Times They Are-A-Changin’ Come gather around people wherever you roam And admit that the waters around you have grown And accept it that soon you’ll be drenched to the bone If your time to you is worth saving Then you better start swimmin’ or you’ll sink like a stone For the times they are-a-changing Come writers and critics who prophesize with your pen And keep your eyes wide the chance won’t come again And don’t speak too soon for the wheel’s still in spin And there’s no telling who that it’s naming For the loser now will be later to win For the times they are-a-changing Come senators congressmen please heed the call Don’t stand in the doorway don’t block up the hall He that gets hurt will be he who has stalled There’s a battle outside and it’s raging It’ll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls For the times they are-a-changin’ Come mothers and fathers throughout the land And don’t criticize what you can’t understand Your sons and your daughters are beyond your command Your old road is rapidly aging Get out of the new one if you can’t lend a hand For the times they are-a-changin’ The line it is drawn the curse it is cast The slow one now will later be fast As the present now will later be past The order is rapidly fading And the first one now will later be last For the times they are-a-changin’ Bob Dylan”
Handwritten lyrics and signature have been authenticated by Bob Dylan’s manager. Single page measures 8.5″ x 11″. In near fine condition. Apart from the original draft, these are the only known lyrics of “The Times They Are a-Changin’” that have been offered at auction. Sold for $89,505.
Bob Dylan signed, handwritten lyrics from November 1961, when Dylan was performing at clubs in New York, shortly after he signed with Columbia Records. Dylan pens a song about Wisconsin, where he lived in late 1960 before moving to New York, and also where he spent time as a teenager at summer camp. The lyrics were given by Dylan to Peter Crago, a musician with whom Dylan briefly lived in New York in 1961. Full uncorrected lyrics by Dylan read,
”Bob Dylan – 11/20/61 / N.Y.C
1. Wisconson is the dairy state
I guess you all know well
I was in Wow Wow Toaster there
The truth to you I’ll tell
It’s milk & cheese & cream
I’ve known ’em all my days
I’m going back to my hometown I’m leaving right aways
2. I’m a heading out Wisconson ways
2000 miles to go
Madison, Milwakee set’s my heart aglow
I’m a coming to that dairy state
My heart’s a beating fast
I’ll pick my banjo gently there
And twiddle my mustache
3. There’s thoughts I left there long ago
One a coming now it seems
I’ll tune my banjo than the hills
And feast on milk and cream
And stamp my foot all thru the grass
And never know a care
My homes in Wow Wow Toaster
And I’m a going there”
The song continues on the verso:
”1. These people with you city ways
Are driving me insane to drink
My home’s in Wisconson it’s a better place I think
I’ve been in California
My home’s in Wisconson
And I”m gonna own the town”
Several words in the draft are crossed out and replaced, such as ”dreams” being crossed out and replaced with ”thoughts” in section 3. Paper measures approximately 8.5” x 10.75”. Top portion torn off, horizontal fold and light toning, otherwise near fine. With a COA from Roger Epperson. Sold for $24,000.
Complete lyrics to Blondie’s 1979 hit song ”Heart of Glass,” signed and written by lead singer Debbie Harry. The glamorous star of punk and new wave imparts a lipstick kiss and signs: ”X Love, Debbie Harry” to the conclusion of the 25-line song. It begins: ”Once I had a love and it was a gas / Soon turned out had a heart of glass…” For the last line, she transcribes the famous chorus: ”…Ooh ooh oh!” 2pp. on yellow ruled pages in blue ink. A photo of Harry is affixed near the bottom edge. Matted and framed to an overall size of 22.25 x 18.25”. In near fine condition. Dings to black metal frame, else near fine. Scarce handwritten lyrics signed by Debbie Harry. Sold for $5,530.
FREE VALUATION. To buy, auction, sell or consign your Bruce Springsteen handwritten lyrics are for sale, please email your description and photos to [email protected] of Nate D. Sanders Auctions (http://www.NateDSanders.com).