Sotheby's will be auctioning what it claims to be the only known surviving draft of the final lyrics for Bob Dylan's "Like a Rolling Stone," as part of the auction house's rock and pop music sale.
ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: It's not all politics here in Washington. On Pennsylvania Avenue, there used to be a hotel called the Roger Smith. The top of the hotel's stationery proclaimed it was just one block from the White House. And it's under that heading that one of rock 'n roll's most important figures scribbled out the lyrics to one of his biggest songs.</s>AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: Bob Dylan wrote the 1965 hit "Like a Rolling Stone" on four pages of that hotel stationery. Along with the lyrics, there are doodles: a hat, a chicken, a deer.</s>ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: A few years ago, Dylan either sold or gave the stationery to someone who won't reveal his identity. And now, the auction house Sotheby's has announced that next month, these pages of rock history will be offered to the highest bidder.</s>AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: Whoever that someone is, one thing's certain: He won't be scrounging around for his next meal. The papers are expected to bring in millions.</s>ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: Well, how does this all feel to Dylan fans?</s>MEL PRUSSACK: Yeah, I think it's a shame.</s>ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: That's Mel Prussack of Old Bridge, N.J.</s>MEL PRUSSACK: I am the curator of The Bob Dylan Shrine.</s>AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: Prussack is a pharmacist by day.</s>MEL PRUSSACK: I can't imagine why Dylan would sell this. The only thing I could think of - he wanted to help somebody out, and I would imagine he sold it for a dollar or something.</s>AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: The draft of "Like a Rolling Stone" is expected to go for up to $2 million.