News | A Bob Dylan guitar fetches $495,000 at auction
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AFP / DON EMMERTA Bob Dylan/Robbie Robertson 1965 Fender Telecaster guitar is displayed during a media preview in New York as part of the Music Icons auction |
A guitar that
played a key role in Bob Dylan's artistic evolution from folk music to rock
fetched a half million at auction on Saturday.
The guitar, a
1965 Fender Telecaster that belonged to Robbie Robertson, Dylan's guitarist,
was used by Dylan, Eric Clapton and George Harrison, Julien's Auctions said
Saturday.
It had been
expected to fetch between $400,000 and $600,000.
The guitar
marked the singer's path from folk stylings like "The Times They Are
A-Changin'" (1964), to electric rock, like his 1965 hit "Like a
Rolling Stone."
Other famous
guitars went under the hammer on Saturday: George Harrison's first electric
guitar, a $40,000 Hofner Club 40, and a Fender Telecaster rosewood guitar made
for Elvis Presley in 1968, priced at a cool $115,200.
More than 40
years after his death, Elvis items still fetch a handsome price.
A heavily
decorated Elvis belt, which he wore during a concert in Hawaii in 1972, sold
for $354,400.
A star-shaped
diamond ring donated by Elvis to an admirer at a concert in 1975 brought in a
sparkly $100,000.
The sale also
included show costumes that belonged to artists from Elton John, to Britney
Spears and Michael Jackson.
A leather
jacket and pants suit from the late "Thriller" singer, with a yellow
shirt, brought in $217,600, Julien said.
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