Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan's Newport Stratocaster, a 1964 sunburst Fender This is the guitar Dylan plugged in on July 25, 1965, when his short electric set at the Newport Folk Festival drew boos from folk purists and changed what a singer-songwriter was allowed to sound like. He left it on a private plane afterward, and it stayed with the pilot's family in New Jersey for nearly 50 years. At Christie's in December 2013 it sold for $965,000, then a record for a guitar at auction.