Early Bob Dylan recordings saved from scrapheap

Some early Bob Dylan recordings will be saved thanks to a grant from the Grammys organisers.

The National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences is giving the equivalent of £15,600 to transfer the rare recordings from tape to CD.

The head of the academy said his group did not want to risk losing the 40-year-old acetate tapes.

He called them "living history".

The recordings feature Dylan with folk stars Pete Seeger and Janis Ian making their first records in a New York apartment in the early 1960s, reports BBC News.