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Item 1 of 5 Gene Paul, son of the famed Les Paul, speaks about the “Number One" guitar, the earliest approved production model of the famed Gibson Les Paul electric guitar, at Christie's ...
The 120-year-old maker of historic instruments such as the Les Paul electric guitar sent a cease-and-desist letter to 16 Creative, the agency that is marketing specially branded Trump Guitars.
Les Paul, one of the most revered guitarists in history and the father of the electric guitar, passed away last night, August 12th at the age of 94. Paul's manager confirmed to Rolling Stone that ...
The launch includes a small selection of Les Paul-style electric guitars, and acoustic guitars split into several categories, with signed editions, limited to 275 pieces, priced at upwards of $10,000.
The crusade to find a home for an electric guitar is reverberating through the music world as Les Paul’s Black Beauty from the ’50s is going up for auction ...
Two historic electric guitar prototypes will go up for auction next month in New York, including the original “Black Beauty” model of Gibson’s Les Paul guitar that became one of the most ...
Gibson listened, and their Les Paul electric guitar came out in 1952, with a warmer, growly, somewhat mellower sound that distinguished it from the Telecaster.
But the electric guitar is still his greatest legacy. Building off his experiments in the 1940s, Paul teamed up with guitar-maker Gibson, notably beginning with the 1952 Gibson Les Paul (today ...
Les Paul, who pioneered the solid-body electric guitar later wielded by a legion of rock 'n' roll greats, died Thursday of complications from pneumonia. He was 94.