Gibson has introduced the Les Paul Studio Session – the latest evolution of its conventional Les Paul Studio, which is said to be a “step up” from previous iterations. The firm reignited its ...

The Goldtop Les Paul and the Les Paul Custom were a significant new direction for a traditional archtop guitar manufacturer like Gibson. The winds of change would soon blow through the company’s ...

The solution was a lightweight mahogany only body, two humbuckers and a slim mahogany neck. These guitars were still known as Les Pauls (Standard, Custom, Junior, Specials) until the series was ...

As Gibson begins efforts to “protect its iconic legacy” with a lawsuit against Dean, there’s another electric guitar that has players’ tongues wagging: the Appleton App, a pre-Les Paul solidbody that ...

Kirk Hammett models the Epiphone Inspired by Gibson Custom Shop “Greeny” 1959 Les Paul Standard. Epiphone has unveiled what must be the most anticipated signature guitar in the brand’s long ...

A 1950s Gibson Les Paul wasn’t always a bank-breaking investment. Cheap Trick guitarist and songwriter Rick Nielsen bought his first Les Paul, a 1955 gold top, in 1965 at a bookstore in Rockford ...

The 1959 Gibson Les Paul is the world’s most expensive guitar. It can also be one of the hardest to authenticate. Some of the most famous guitar players, including Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin ...

Gibson proclaimed 2013 to be “The Year of Les Paul.” In doing so, the company honored Les (who died in 2009) by issuing decade-specific GLP Tribute guitars, along with a cherry-finish reissue ...

Still, the rock demi-gods of the 1960s and ‘70s adored Paul for what he handed them, the Gibson Les Paul electric guitar, a beast of an instrument that has endured through the years whether the ...

FILE - In this Dec. 20, 1963 file photo, Les Paul repairs one of the many control boards in the control room at his Oakland, N.J., home. Paul, 94, the guitarist and inventor who changed the course ...