Sentence examples for draft lyrics from inspiring English sources

In 1998 an Evans notebook containing draft lyrics for "Hey Jude" and "Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" sold for $185,000 at an auction in London.

It was a fact that lead many to believe that the below image of draft lyrics to Radiohead's 2003 album track A Wolf At The Door was a hint to some kind of Radiohead archive release or remix album.

John Lennon's handwritten draft lyrics for the Beatles song "I'm Only Sleeping," expected to fetch more than $360,000 ,remained unsold after a Christie's auction last week in London, the BBC reported.

In another auction, scheduled for next week at Christie's in London, Lennon's draft lyrics in blue felt pen for "I'm Only Sleeping," with deletions, alterations and variations for the song, heard on the Beatles' "Revolver" album, will be sold.

Fly Boy Blue/Lunette, released in January, contains another first draft lyric.

Not only is it a first draft lyric, it's a one-take vocal too.

But they also feature musical instruments (including the banjo he played onstage in Baal, and an ancient synthesiser from the Berlin days,) record designs, first-draft lyrics handwritten in scratchy Rotring pen with lots of crossings-out, set designs and film storyboards.

Others recognized that most of the song's appeal came from its catchy melody and simply drafted new lyrics.

But the visual gems are the reproductions of early drafts of lyrics, with alternative line choices and lists of rhymes scrawled (in pencil) in the margins of legal-pad sheets.

Still, with a songwriter like Mr. Dylan the rough drafts, alternate lyrics and multiple versions of "Dignity" and "Mississippi" are fascinating glimpses of how restlessly he tinkers with mood and meaning.

There are also sketches of T-shirt designs (featuring his obsession with pregnant male seahorses), album covers (with unused titles like "I Hate Myself and I Want to Die") and early drafts of lyrics, including the scrapped "Smells Like Teen Spirit" chorus "A deposit/ For a bottle/ Stuck inside it/ No role model".