Bob Dylan’s sunburst Fender Stratocaster guitar sold today at auction for $965,000 including fees. It was the instrument he played in the mid 1960s and his use of it at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival is considered by aficionados to mark musical history. Dylan is 72 today, having been born Robert Allen Zimmerman on May 24, 1941 Here we have the auction itself (left) and Dylan at Newport and elsewhere.
