Luxury auction house Christie's announced Wednesday that the earliest approved model of the pioneering Les Paul Gibson guitar will be part of its "Exceptional Sale" on Oct. 13 in New York, where ...

Although it may seem like the double-cutaway guitar is a Gibson SG as popularized by Angus Young of AC/DC and Eric Clapton during his days in Cream, it bears the Les Paul name. In 1961, Gibson re ...

The guitar, known as Les Paul’s “Number One,” is being put up for sale by the inventor’s son, Gene Paul, and Tom Doyle, Paul’s long-time guitar builder, engineer, and producer.

KALAMAZOO, MI -- "Black Beauty," the prototype of Gibson Guitar Co.'s Les Paul guitar sold for a handsome price at auction Thursday in New York City, but not for nearly the amount expected.

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 ...