Depending on who you ask, the guitar was born in any one of the regions in the ancient world, stretching from Greece to Persia. The terms were not disclosed.The guitar has multiple origin stories. Dylan and Peterson, who declined to be interviewed, recently settled a dispute over the items. The lyrics include In the Darkness of Your Room, an early draft of Absolutely Sweet Marie from Dylan's Blonde on Blonde album, and three songs from the 1965 recording session that were not released until the 1980s: Medicine Sunday (the draft is titled Midnight Train), Jet Pilot and I Wanna Be Your Lover.ĭylan's lawyer and publicist did not respond to requests for comment. "Based on the sum of the evidence, I was able to identify that this guitar was the one that Bob Dylan had played in Newport."Ĭhristie's is also selling five lots of hand- and typewritten lyric fragments for early versions of some of Dylan's most famous songs, which were found in the guitar case. Wood grains are like fingerprints: no two are exactly alike," Babiuk said. "I was able to match the wood grain on the body of the guitar … and the unique grain of the rosewood fingerboard. Both men unequivocally declared it to be Dylan's guitar.īabiuk took the instrument apart and compared it to close-up colour photos of the guitar taken at the 1965 festival. The programme enlisted the expertise of Andy Babiuk, a consultant to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and owner of an upstate New York vintage instrument shop, and Jeff Gold, a Dylan memorabilia expert. Last year, she took it to the PBS television show History Detectives to have it authenticated. Dylan left it on a private plane piloted by the owner's late father, Vic Quinto, who worked for the musician's manager.ĭawn Peterson said her father asked the management company what to do with the guitar and nobody ever responded. The guitar has been in the possession of a New Jersey family for nearly 50 years. The previous record for a guitar sold at auction was Eric Clapton's Fender, nicknamed Blackie, which sold at Christie's for $959,500 in 2004. The pre-sale estimate by Christie's auction house for the guitar, which is being sold with its original black leather strap and hard-shell case, is $300,000-$500,000.
He returned for an acoustic encore with the song It's All Over Now, Baby Blue.
His three-song electric set was met with outrage from folk purists who viewed his turn to rock as treachery. The Newport festival, in Rhode Island, was a defining moment for Dylan, marking his move from acoustic folk to electric rock'n'roll.
The Stratocaster played by Dylan at the 1965 Newport festival.
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