Someone who did get their hands on it since was Joe Bonamassa. People at gigs kept asking me all these strange questions: Is that the Kossoff guitar? It must be worth a lot? How do you store it? I started thinking I’d better not play it any more, in case someone decides to take it home with them!” But then around 1989 I noticed Paul’s name started coming back into vogue, he started getting more popular again. “I wasn’t bothered about its value, it’s just a great musical instrument. The Kossoff Les Paul was his gigging guitar, right up until the end of the 80s. He left Beckett, having been replaced in time for their sole, self-titled album for Warner, but he kept playing, with the highly successful Les Humphries Singers in Germany, and more recently in Just Us Four and Snake Eyes, rock bands working the pubs and clubs across the north east. But a few months later she gave me David’s number, I spoke to him, and he said if I wanted to buy it, I could.”Īnd that Les Paul has been in Arthur Ramm’s hands since ’76. I thought it would go to a Clapton, Page, Green or Beck, one of these wonderful, monster players. “Sandie said she knew Paul had promised me the guitar and had welshed on the deal,” says Ramm, “and she’d talk to his dad, the actor David Kossoff. Back Street Crawler with Terry Slesser (second left), Paul Kossoff (centre) (Image credit: Getty Images)
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