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Representatives for Mick Taylor, the Rolling Stones’ former guitarist, said the Les Paul was stolen from him decades ago. The museum says he never owned it and has not made a claim.
By Michaela Towfighi
They were shaggy and, to Ed Sullivan’s mind, under-shampooed, but the Rolling Stones cemented their arrival in the United States when they appeared on his variety show in October 1964, accompanied by screaming fans and aided by one Les Paul guitar in the hands of Keith Richards.
