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EDITOR’S LETTER

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CHIEF EDITOR Chris Vinnicombe
ART EDITOR John Thackray
MANAGING EDITOR Josh Gardner
PRODUCTION EDITOR Owen Bailey
PUBLISHING PRODUCTION MANAGER Craig Broadbridge EDITOR’S LETTER
ASSOCIATE EDITOR Sam Roberts CHERRY SUNBURST PICKIN’
SENIOR PRODUCT SPECIALIST Huw Price
INSTRUMENT & COVER PHOTOGRAPHY Eleanor Jane
CONTRIBUTORS Tony Bacon, Jo Johnson t might not have been the irst signature guitar, but there’s little
HAVE A STORY? Email us at editors@guitar.com doubt that the Gibson Les Paul is the greatest and most iconic.
Across 132 pages, The Les Paul Bible charts nearly seven decades
SALES I since the model made its debut and brings the story bang up-to-
date with reviews of Gibson’s 2019 Custom Shop, Original and
ADVERTISING MANAGER Joe Supple
joe.supple@guitar.com Modern Collection Les Pauls.
BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT MANAGER Di Marsh As well as jaw-dropping photography of beautiful vintage
di.marsh@guitar.com instruments, we share pro tech tips that’ll keep your Lester in ine
fettle and show you how to get your modern LP sounding as close as
PRODUCTION & OPERATIONS possible to an original 1950s Burst without dropping house money in
PRINT William Gibbons & Sons Ltd the process.
DISTRIBUTED BY Marketforce (UK) Ltd We also get our hands on historic guitars formerly owned by blues
5 Churchill Place, Canary Wharf, London E14 5HU and rock royalty such as Joe Bonamassa, Dickey Betts, Paul Kossoff and
Gary Richrath and we sit down with Slash – perhaps the Les Paul’s
BANDLAB TECHNOLOGIES most enduring standard bearer – to talk guitar. From p14 onwards,
you’ll even ind archive interviews with the likes of Jimmy Page, Ted
CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER Meng Ru Kuok
McCarty and Les Paul himself as we present the story of an iconic
CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER Ivan Chen
instrument from the perspective of those who shaped its design
AVP, WEB TECHNOLOGIES Laurent Le Graverend
and were responsible for cementing its popularity.
AVP, COMMS & PARTNERSHIPS Lauren Hendry Parsons
Whether your desert-island Les Paul is a heavily checked old
SENIOR MANAGER, BRAND STRATEGY Krystle Hall
Goldtop or a pristine new Standard, there’s something in this edition
MANAGER, CONTENT STRATEGY Iliyas Ong
of Guitar Specials for you, but be warned – once you get bitten by
ASSOCIATE EDITOR Terence Stanley
the Les Paul bug, it’s a hard habit to kick. And when you’ve read
STAFF WRITER Daniel Ong
this publication from cover to cover and perused every detail of
the instruments inside, head to Guitar.com for plenty more where
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