Dylan, Newport `65 & the Search for the Green Polka-Dot Shirt

Fred Bals
13 min readJul 22, 2018

After successfully discovering the Dylan Silver Elvis photo, I was commissioned by the same party to find the photographer and locate the original of this photo of Bob Dylan.

The photograph was used as the cover for an EP — CBS EP 6270 (France) — released in March, 1966. A larger, digitally edited, version of the photo with titling removed was also included…

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Fred Bals

Corporate Storyteller. Tech enthusiast. Mini Cooper fanboy. One-time chronicler of Bob Dylan’s Theme Time Radio Hour. Husband of Peggy. Human of Lily Rose.