Later History of The Song
In 1994, "The Times They Are a-Changin'" was licensed for use in American TV advertisements for the auditing and accountancy firm Coopers & Lybrand, as performed by Richie Havens; in 1996, the song was sung by a children's choir in an advertisement for Canada's Bank of Montreal. In 2005, it was used in a television advertisement for insurance company Kaiser Permanente. In 2009, the song was featured in the opening sequence of the superhero film adaptation of the graphic novel Watchmen.
The "Dylan Covers Database" listed 436 recordings, including bootlegs, of this song as of October 19, 2009, including 85 versions of it by "Bob Walkenhorst", recorded live between March 2004 and September 2009, at "Molly's Irish Pub" in Kansas City. According to the same database, the song has been recorded in at least 14 other languages (Catalán, Czech, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Polish, Serbian, Spanish & Swedish).
John Mellencamp made a home-video recording of the song on a web-cam on September 2, 2008 and posted it on his website the next day as a statement about the possible change the 2008 presidential election could bring to the United States.
In 2008 on Boston Legal during the episode "Roe" Musician Billy Valentine covered this song while the character Alan Shore was preparing for a trial about abortion.
In 2009, filmmaker Michael Moore sang the third verse of the song live on The Jay Leno Show after being told that he had to "earn" a clip from his film Capitalism: A Love Story to be shown.
On December 10, 2010, Dylan's hand-written lyrics of the song were sold at auction at Sotheby's, New York, for $422,500. They were purchased by a hedge fund manager.
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