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KALEO’s JJ Julius Son and Marcus King Band’s Drew Smithers also played the legendary LP, which fetched over $490,000 at auction earlier this year.

When Punk History Is Rewritten… Matt’s Guitar Shop — a Paris-based dealer and hunter of exceptional guitars, specializing in artist-owned instruments — has just welcomed into its private collection one of the most iconic guitars of recent rock history: the Gibson Les Paul Custom formerly owned by Steve Jones of the Sex Pistols.

“One of his guitar geek dreams was to play this guitar”: Billie Joe Armstrong just played Steve Jones’ iconic Sex Pistols Les Paul – which recently sold for $390,000 – with Green Day in Paris

Iron Maiden guitarist Adrian Smith recently visited Matt’s Guitar Shop. In the clip below, Adrian and Matt chat about the 1955 Gibson Les Paul Black Beauty, formerly owned and played by Paul Kossoff from Free and Eric Clapton during the Cream years.

He’s a very young man of 29 who looks barely 17, but don’t be fooled by his youthful appearance. In just under seven years since launching his Matt’s Guitar Shop, Matt Lucas has established himself as the French specialist in star guitars that make all musicians and rock aficionados dream, with hundreds of precious collector’s instruments…

Marcus King got reacquainted with one of the most famous Gibson Les Pauls of all time on Sunday, March 19, when he had a pre-show noodle on the 1955 Black Beauty once owned by Peter Kossoff and Eric Clapton.

There aren’t too many 25-year-olds who can tell you what it’s like to buy a 1959 Les Paul from Joe Bonamassa, or pull guitars out of their collection that were formerly owned by Jimi Hendrix and Jeff Buckley. Join us as we spend a surreal 24 hours with Matthieu Lucas…