One-off re-recording of Bob Dylan’s hit Blowin’ In The Wind has sold at auction for nearly £1.5 million.
The release is the first new studio recording of the song since Dylan wrote it in 1962 and was sold by Christie’s in London on Thursday.
The sale exceeded the original price estimated by the auction house, which was set at between £600,000 to £1 million.
The record went for a total of £1,482,000.
It was made in March 2021 with Dylan’s regular collaborator T Bone Burnett and was part of Christie’s Exceptional Sale during Classic Week.
Burnett said he hoped for the new recording; offered on a new audio medium: Ionic Original, would help “develop a musical space in the visual arts market”.
“I trust and hope it will mean as much to those who bought it today at Christie’s Exceptional Sale as it did to all of us who made it, and that they will regard it and care for it as a painting or other unique piece of art,” he said.
2022 marks the 60th anniversary of Dylan as an artist and of Blowin’ In The Wind, which was written for his second album The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan†
Peter Klarnet, Christie’s senior specialist in Americana, books and manuscripts, said: “We are so pleased with the excellent result tonight for the ‘Ionic Original’ disc of Bob Dylan’s first new studio recording of ‘Blowin’ in the Wind’ since 1962. .
“It is a tremendous honor to work with such an incredibly important and groundbreaking advance in analog playback technology.
“We’re excited that this is just the beginning of this exciting new opportunity for artists to partner with T Bone and NeoFidelity to reset the value of music.”