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“I said, ‘I used to have a Les Paul Custom and I sold it like an idiot.’ Eric said, ‘Oh, I have one of those at home somewhere…’” Gibson unveils the Eric Clapton 1958 Les Paul Custom – a recreation of the Disraeli Gears LP that now belongs to Albert Lee

The Murphy Lab-aged LP faithfully recreates the original model, but Clapton has added a few personal modifications to the reissue

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“People usually assume it’s a Rickenbacker, Telecaster or Jaguar. It’s often been this Les Paul”: Gibson and Johnny Marr have recreated the 1984 Les Paul that underpinned The Smiths legend’s entire career

Exclusive to the Gibson Garage London to mark the store's first anniversary, only 20 examples will be made, and each will be hand-signed by Marr himself

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“Keep your eyes on this man”: Nuno Bettencourt joins Steven Tyler for a mini-set of Aerosmith, Extreme classics at charity gig – and, wait, is that a Les Paul?

Backing Tyler and some of his A-list friends at a fundraiser for the Janie’s Fund foundation at the Hollywood Palladium, the Extreme virtuoso ditched his signature Washburn

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"Casting my eye over its clean and well-applied finish, I'm once again reminded that Gibson is currently producing some of the finest guitars in its history": Gibson Les Paul Studio Session review

Flame top, neck binding, and classic mother-of-pearl logo – when does a Studio stop being a Studio?

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“The whereabouts of only a few are known today”: Gibson's new commemorative 1955 NAMM Show Les Paul celebrates the 70th anniversary of a historic, ultra-rare run of the company's most famous model

The Les Paul Standards displayed at the 1955 NAMM Show were the first to ever be fitted with no-wire ABR-1 Tune-O-Matic bridges and Stop Bar tailpieces, and were graced with unique custom finishes

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“Friends texted me saying, ‘I wish Taylor Swift would dance to my music.’ I’m like, ‘Put a good song out and she actually might!’” Justin Hawkins on the Darkness going viral, the return of virtuosic playing – and why he finally switched from Les Pauls

The Darkness frontman details his journey to Friedman amps via a freaky Laney experience, the success of his musicology podcast series, and the jealousy his band have caused by crossing over to pop

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“Forget the name on the headstock, at this price this Les Paul is a steal”: Epiphone Joe Bonamassa 1955 Les Paul Standard review

Epiphone's latest collaboration with Joe Bonamassa sets its sights on his rare-finish, P-90-equipped 1955 Gibson Les Paul

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“Tina Turner signed it with a flick knife after he recorded for her in London. Then they all went out to dinner”: What the auction of Jeff Beck’s best-loved electrics tells us about the late guitar icon

We join the experts from Christie’s auction house to take a closer look at the ‘Oxblood’ Les Paul, ‘Tele-Gib’ and other historic instruments from Jeff’s career – and discuss the portrait they paint of apragmatic, restless yet peerlessly gifted talent and his musical legacy

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“Like Gretsch’s Duo Jet, it was surely spurred by Gibson’s success with the Les Paul”: The mysterious history of the Guild M-75 Aristocrat, the blue-blooded hollowbody played by John Lee Hooker, John Mayer, St. Vincent and Dan Auerbach

This evocative downsized archtop appeared in mid-’50s New York and would go on to delight jazz players and rootsy bluesers alike

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“I don’t think they do too well living in a case all their lives”: Mark Knopfler parted ways with his guitar collection – but he hopes they all get played

2024 Year in Review: The Dire Straits icon raised a huge amount of money for charity selling off 120 prized instruments, including his 1959 Gibson Les Paul Standard

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“Simply a very good sounding Les Paul irrelevant of its name or price”: Gibson Les Paul Studio review

Gibson hasn’t forgotten the working musician with this refreshed version of the classic Les Paul Studio for 2024

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“Your faithful companion, musical soulmate... the tool that lets you express your creative vision”: Modern, versatile, affordable, the Les Paul Studio Session offers a compelling update on Gibson’s most-loved electric guitar

The player-friendly Les Paul Studio Session switches up the Studio format with a figured maple cap, '57 Classic humbuckers and expanded controls

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“Trump Guitars is not in any way officially connected with Gibson”: Trump Guitars backtracks after Gibson cease and desist and takes Les Paul-style guitars off the market

Gibson's cease and desist stated that Trump Guitars' designs infringed upon the guitar giant's exclusive trademarks, particularly the iconic Les Paul body shape

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Gibson issues cease and desist over Trump-backed guitars

Electric guitar maker claims president-elect-endorsed merchandise infringes on Les Paul trademark

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“Modding for dummies? Well, some of you more experienced guitar tinkerers might be having a chuckle, but this levels the playing field”: How Gibson’s Quick Connect pickups are the Les Paul mod pretty much anyone can do – no soldering required

As Gibson finally adds some Quick Connect pickups to its Pickup Shop lineup, we revisit this simple no-solder method to mod your Modern guitar

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Widely Mocked 'Trump Guitars' Slapped with Cease and Desist Order for Ripping Off Gibson

The viral "Trump Guitars" have been slapped with a cease and desist by Gibson after the guitar company accused them of ripping off an exclusive design.

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“In the weeks leading up to the show, Deryck and I talked about our mutual love for the Sex Pistols. That’s when we planned the special moment”: Sum 41's Deryck Whibley plays Steve Jones’ Sex Pistols Les Paul at the band's last-ever European show

The storied guitar, which sold for $390,000 at auction earlier this year, was recently played by Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong and Yungblud

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Gibson slaps Trump guitars with a cease and desist order

Its body shape is too close to the Les Paul, they allege

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Trump Guitars hit with cease and desist from Gibson over use of Les Paul body shape

Breaking: The patriotic line was launched as “the only guitar officially endorsed by President Donald J. Trump”, but Gibson says it infringes on its trademarks

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“I hope the future guitarists who acquire these items are able to move closer to the genius who played them”: Over 130 of Jeff Beck’s guitars and amps headed to auction, including his Tele-Gib, Yardburst Les Paul and 'Blow By Blow' Oxblood Les Paul

The Jeff Beck Collection goes under the hammer on 22 January 2025 at Christie's in London

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“No one has ever played these instruments live other than Gary”: Gary Rossington’s ‘Free Bird’ Les Paul/SG will be loaned out for a series of A-list gigs – and Blackberry Smoke have already used it for a Lynyrd Skynyrd medley

The Chicago Music Exchange is working with Rossington’s family to help put the iconic guitar in the hands of big-name players, in a new initiative that aims to honor the late Southern rock icon’s legacy

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“Add some gain and it’s got this weird kind of chainsaw distortion that I love... of course I feel in love with it”: Kirk Hammett has a second Les Paul that was previously owned by Gary Moore – and Moore said it sounded even better than Greeny

The Metallica lead guitarist offers Mark Agnesi a tour of his epic guitar collection on GibsonTV, with a coffee table book to follow. But will we ever see his ESP KH-1 with the onboard theremin?

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“I gave my friend a call and said, ‘What have you got for me today?’ He goes, ‘Oh, I have a guitar for you…’” How Kirk Hammett ended up in possession of the legendary ‘Greeny’ Les Paul – and why he had no interest in it at first

The Metallica guitarist never intended to buy Peter Green and Gary Moore's iconic single-cut – but changed his mind once he finally got his hands on it

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“The tone EC achieved on that record has become one of the classic archetypes for how an electric guitarshould sound”: How Eric Clapton got his tone on John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers’ ‘Beano’ album

The ‘Beano’ album has become a benchmark for how a Les Paul ’Burst and a Marshall could sound together. But how Clapton got that tone is a little more complex than that...

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“Lemmy and I got on fine most of the time, but we had our moments. Being in Motörhead was crazy 24 hours a day”: ex-Thin Lizzy guitarist Brian ‘Robbo’ Robertson’s wild tales of Phil Lynott, Lemmy, David Bowie and more

Phil Lynott, Lemmy, Rush, Alex ‘Hurricane’ Higgins – former Thin Lizzy/Motörhead guitarist Brian Robertson crossed paths with them all and has the hangovers to prove it

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