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 ...

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.

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 ...

That was Les Paul: a tremendous work ethic." Bucky Pizzarelli is booked to play with Paul's trio at Iridium, next Monday, and on Aug. 24. Larry Coryell will play with the trio on Aug. 31.

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 ...

Les Paul, the guitarist and inventor who changed the course of music with the electric guitar and multitrack recording and had a string of hits, many with wife Mary Ford, died on Thursday. He was 94.