Keith Richards
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Keith Richards' hand-painted 1957 Gibson Les Paul Custom
A black "Black Beauty" Les Paul with three humbucking pickups, serial number 7 7277, that Richards decorated himself in the late 1960s with the psychedelic swirl you can see curling up from the lower bout. It is a snapshot of the Rolling Stones moving from beat group to something wilder, and it went on show at the Met's Play It Loud exhibition in 2019.
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