GUITAR WORLD SPREAD

If music be the food of love, play on.

– William Shakespeare

For music lovers, the curves of this 1959 Les Paul electric guitar shot for Play Hard's spread in Guitar World Magazine needed to come off sexy enough to be a centerfold. Guitarists around the nation hid the magazine from their mothers, wives and girlfriends, under their mattresses, in their closets or locked up in their desks.