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 ...

The 1954 Les Paul Gibson guitar known as “Black Beauty” AP Paul was a jazz, country and blues guitarist. He made frequent modifications to his basic guitar over the years, refining the sound.

Doyle explains the guitar became showcased in the 1950s on 170 television shows, “Listerine Presents: Les Paul and Mary Ford.” Black and white video clips show singer Mary Ford and her husband ...

NEW YORK — One deep-pocketed bidder will get a chance to own a piece of rock and roll history when the iconic Les Paul guitar known as “Black Beauty” goes up for auction in New York next month.

Kirk Hammett’s guitar collection is getting a lot of attention these days. Gibson made a feature-length YouTube video about ...

Neil Young performs with Old Black, his Gibson Les Paul, at 2017 Farm Aid, in Burgettstown, ... I guess I used the Firebird pickup on all the things I played on my black guitar since 1973. ...

“The Gibson ‘Black Beauty’ Les Paul Custom. I was one of the first people in England to have one, but I didn’t know that then,” Page explains in an interview with Ultimate Guitar .

"Tommy Bolin's Les Paul had to go," Bonamassa says. "The first black Stratocaster ever made had to go, the Broadcaster, the ...