B. B. King

Lucille, B.B. King's black Gibson, on stage in 2009 Lucille was never one guitar but a name King gave every Gibson he played, after a dance hall fire in Twist, Arkansas, started when two men fighting over a woman called Lucille knocked over a barrel of burning kerosene. King ran back into the burning building to rescue his guitar, and the name was his reminder never again to run into a burning building or fight over a woman. Here one waits on its stand mid-show, with his name inlaid down the fretboard.