Bob Dylan’s one-of-a-kind re-recording of "Blowin’ in the Wind" sells for over £1.4 million

Back in May it was revealed that Dylan had re-recorded his '60s classic "Blowin’ in the Wind" to feature on a one-of-one Ionic Original disc by T Bone Burnett, which was set to go up for auction in July.

Prior to the auction yesterday (7 July), the unique re-recording was expected to fetch between £600,000 and £1 million, but it ended up selling for more £1.4 million. The person who won the aucion has not been revealed.

The re-recording is the first recording to utilise T Bone Burnett's Ionic Original technology. In May, a press release stated that Burnett said the Ionic Original disc "advances the art of recorded sound and marks the first breakthrough in analog sound reproduction in more than 70 years, achieving dramatic improvements in listening experience and durability."

In a new statement, Burnett said of the recording following the auction, "Marshall McLuhan said that a medium surrounds a previous medium and turns the previous medium into an art form, as film did with novels, as television did with film, as the internet has done with television, and as digital has done with analogue. With Bob Dylan’s new version of "Blowin’ In The Wind", our first Ionic Original archival analogue disc, we have entered and aim to help develop a music space in the fine arts market. I trust and hope it will mean as much to whomever acquired it today at Christie’s Exceptional Sale as it does to all of us who made it, and that they will consider it and care for it as a painting or any other singular work of art."