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Steve Miller will become the 2025 recipient of the Les Paul Spirit Award on June 9 in Nashville. Miller is the fifth recipient of the award.

About 80 years ago, guitarist and inventor Les Paul built a home recording studio in his Hollywood garage on North Curson Avenue and began developing his “new sound,” which incorporated ...

The company’s brands include Fender, Squier, Gretsch, Jackson, Charvel, EVH and others. In the 1980s, a group of employees and investors bought the company from CBS.

Best electric bass guitars to get the right rhythm. ... The Höfner 500/1 violin bass made famous by Sir Paul McCartney, for example, has a 30-inch neck compared to the more usual 34-inch.

The 120-year-old maker of historic instruments such as the Les Paul electric guitar sent a cease-and-desist letter to 16 Creative, the agency that is marketing specially branded Trump Guitars.

LOS ANGELES, Feb 17, (Agencies): Thanks to the unwavering support of dedicated Beatles fans, Paul McCartney has finally been reunited with his long-lost bass guitar, thanks to The Lost Bass Project.

Paul McCartney's 1961 Höfner electric bass, which was missing for decades, has been returned. The bass was found after Beatles fans launched a search known as The Lost Bass Project.

Paul McCartney has been reunited with the original Höfner bass guitar he bought in the early 1960s that was stolen in the '70s, the former Beatles member confirmed Wednesday. "Following the ...

Paul McCartney's 1961 Höfner bass, which was stolen decades ago, has been returned, the former Beatles member confirmed on his website. Latest U.S.

Paul McCartney is "incredibly grateful" after he was reunited with his beloved 1961 Höfner 500/1 bass guitar more than 51 years after it vanished and sparked a global search at the Beatle's pleading.

Paul McCartney’s long-lost Höfner bass guitar, dubbed “the most important bass in history," has been found over 50 years after it first went missing. × Skip to main content ...