The late Les Paul at a 2005 Carnegie Hall concert playing a Les Paul Recording model that he modified. Writer John Foyston bought his first Les Paul guitar 40 years ago.

It’s a mystery wrapped in an enigma wrapped in a guitar case. A 1959 Gibson Les Paul guitar that former Rolling Stone ...

The Metropolitan Museum of Art responded to claims from former Rolling Stones musician Mick Taylor that the guitar — which he ...

“And the last time he brought it to me he said, ‘My God you should have this guitar.’ “ Paul, who is credited with many recording innovations, died in 2009.

In addition to a three-way pickup selector switch, the Les Paul Recording/Personal/ Professional features master volume, bass and treble attenuation pots/knobs, while a two-way phase switch may be ...

When the Met announced the gift in May, Taylor thought he recognized the guitar, with its distinctive “starburst” finish, as ...

Among the many, many inventions of Les Paul, who single-handedly changed the sound of popular music with the solid body electric guitar and multitrack recording, was something called the ...

Gibson’s Les Paul was the company’s response to the solid-body electric instrument introduced in 1950 by California guitar maker Leo Fender, whose Broadcaster model, which later became known ...

Les Paul, a Rock and Roll Hall of Famer, five-time Grammy Award-winner, a pioneer of the electric guitar and inventor of many recording techniques, performed in 2006 with the Les Paul Trio at the ...

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 ...

NASHVILLE — Legendary guitar and recording innovator Les Paul, 94, died Aug. 13 from complications of severe pneumonia at White Plains (N.Y.) Hospital.

Legendary guitar and recording innovator Les Paul, 94, died Aug. 13 from complications of severe pneumonia at White Plains (N.Y.) Hospital.