Les Paul, born in 1916, rose to national fame in the 1940s when he played pop and jazz guitar, and pioneered sophisticated engineering techniques in the recording industry. In 1949, Les married his ...

Wylde says it was love at first sight with the Grail, but worried that people might see him as a Randy Rhoads clone, it ...

The uniquely spec’d guitar caused a stir when it first emerged on Oasis’ stages last month – and now Gibson is teasing a ...

The guitar became his main axe during his career with Ozzy, but after it fell off a truck in 2000, he feared he’d never see ...

Les Paul was often called rock royalty, but for the people who knew the man before his death Thursday at age 94, that term often inspired a gentle chuckle. Born in Wisconsin in 1915, Paul was a ...

Among the many, many inventions of Les Paul, who single-handedly changed the sound of popular music with the solid body electric guitar and multitrack recording, was something called the ...

The first Gibson Les Paul to be officially approved by the man whose name it bore is a design landmark for electric guitar When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

The Les Paul in question had a figured maple top, muted dark grey burst finish and black hardware – all very much in keeping with the Lamb Of God guitarist’s aesthetic – and similar to a Les Paul ...

Les Paul Remembered“There are very few human beings in history who touched so many people the way Les Paul did. Not only musicians. But anyone that loved music. He shared his gifts with all of ...

Guitarist Les Paul smiles proudly as he sits in a Manhattan studio and listens to his first new studio recordings since 1978. Set for a late-summer release on Capitol, the as-yet-untitled album is ...

Les Paul (1915-2009) was a Grammy award-winning musician. In the 1950s, he and his wife, singer and guitarist Mary Ford, sold millions of copies of their numerous records, including their No. 1 ...