One of America’s most hallowed art institutions is locked in a row with a former member of one of Britain’s biggest rock bands, The Rolling Stones, over the origins of a distinctive 1959 Gibson Les Paul guitar.
A few months ago, New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art announced that it had received a historic gift of more than 500 guitars belonging to some of the 20th century’s most influential musicians, including Mississippi John Hurt and Leo Fender.
