Paul King

Since Paul King first emerged on the U.K. club scene in the late 1960s, he has been the subject of some remarkable, if occasionally dubious, honors. He was, for example, the first man ever to design, build, and perform with an 18-string guitar on the London pub circuit, around 1968, and the first, too, to have this fascinating instrument spontaneously implode in his hands, in front of a packed audience. He was the first musician since the Beatles to have a record banned on the grounds of religious bad taste, when his "Plastic Jesus" followed "The Ballad of John and Yoko" into ...