. >> and les paul was a great guitarist and mark trickett guitar pioneers. among his preductions was a prototype known as black beauty. you are dressed for the weather. >> i'm dressed as a rock journalist. that's what we do. it's a guitar that some said was so significant to popular music history that it carried a price tag of up to 2 million. others attacked less significance and a lower price. find out who was correct after the story of the black beauty and the man that sold her at auction. >> reporter: the 1954 gibson prototype black beauty played here by tom doyle, paul's right-hand man for years. >> i'm working with one of the greatest geniuses. >> reporter: les paul was frugal and tom worked long hours for little or no money. when he was given the black beauty in lieu of a pay check, tom said thanks. >> i said thanks. he said "it's yours, tom." tom is selling the black beauty at access with all of paul's pioneering tropics, stuff he wouldn't show anyone but tom. february's guitar playing magazine has it. this is ted playing it in a 1950s tv show sponso

stuart: tom doyle, you were playing this was that owned by les paul? >> the first prototype. the one. stuart: arlen is right. that hit real launched the electronic guitar into the rock 'n' roll scene? >> it is the one that les always wanted and used on his commercials, the les paul and mary ford show for the listerine commercials. here is the first guitar prototype that he used and put it to the public on television. black and white you can see his fingers flying over the finger board, black piano finish, everything looks super on television. stuart: settle the argument eric clapton was a better guitarist than les paul. >> have you to understand, different era. tom, they were searching for something, too. i was searching and so they were. they have their thing, don't think it is it's great. stuart: as a player, the sound from the guitar, is it better than other guitars? place it in a sense of how good it is? >> ted mccarty, the president of gibson and les got together to create this black beauty. this is what les wanted in the electronic guitar itself. it was a mahogany body f

colts owner jim irsay winning the bid for a les paul guitar. he paid less than $35,000.cludes jerry's guitar jerry garcia and i don't know what -- i guess is this one les paul himself may have used? les paul there are people that this has become almost a cult industry in buying some of this gentleman's guitars over the years. that's a nice one. $35,000. >>> let's tell you about walmart. walmart's chief executive joined "squawk alley" yesterday and talked about the future of mobile payments and the possibility of adopting apple pay. >> we're still looking at it and we have ongoing discussions related to it. there were some things in the first wave that made it made it more difficult for us. i wouldn't rule it out. wouldn't surprise me at some point in the not too distant future if these cash registers go away or change dramatically. i think mobile payment is definitely a fact and we're excited about that actually in figuring ways to use our own app, ways to partner with other people who customers can save time and be more efficient. >> apple pay accounts for two-thirds of

the gibson les paul guitar.p for antibiotic in new york. >> the -- auction in new york. >> the invenor called it black beauty. some call it the holy grail. the head of the auction house expects a selling price to the tune of $2 million. to find out more or make your own bid, head to our website, cnn.com. >> spare a couple million. >>> thanks for watching. i'm rosemary church. >> i'm errol barnett. "early start" is next for those of you in the states. for everyone else "cnn newsroom." have a great day. [alarms blaring] ohhhhh... whoa whoa whoa! who's responsible for this?!? if something goes wrong, you find a scapegoat. ...rick. it's what you do. ahhhhhhhh! what'd you say? uh-oh! kelly! if you want to save fifteen percent or more on car insurance, you switch to geico. it's what you do. rick. don't walk away from me. ahhhhhhhh! >>> a tragic turn in the war on isis. the white house, the family of kayla mueller say that she is dead. the family is in mourning as the president prepares new authorization in the war, an

guitar and he was a guitarist and pop and jazz legend and built the first solid body guitar but this les paulchanged the sound and style of music forever, tonight what some call the prototype for the innovation went up for auction and al jazeera john joins us with this. >> this is a story about how much would you be prepared to pay for a guitar and we will find out at the end of this sequence but i can tell you first off it's a mystery as deep as any william patterson novel because less paul loved tinkering and the one you saw 1954 black beauty there it is look at that to the development of music and ultimately in many forms played by rock stars the world over and worth a cool $2 million say some people not true say others. it's all hype. and you are looking at the wrong instrument. ♪ the 1954 gibson prototype black beauty once owned by the legend less paul played by tom doyle his right hand man for years. >> i'm working with less paul one of the greatest geniuss of the electric guitar. >> reporter: less paul was famous and frugal and worked long hours with no money and he gave him the black

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le rand paul 13. ben carson, 10. the story here though is the two republican establishment figures.t white hopes, jeb bush and chris christie are just in the cellular. chris christie registers ninth. way at the bottom. but here we have all of these scared establishment money guys that rushed to give money to bob dole and rushed to give money to george h.w. in '92, rushed to give money to george w. in 2000 before they figured out he had some failings as a candidate. rushed to give money to mitt romney in '12. he's doing it again. they're picking a guy who maybe can't win the first three or four states. >> sometimes the guy whogs rush to give money are right. sometimes they prevail. sometimes not. john conley in 1980. giuliani diplomat he need fund-raising in 2007 for republicans and mitt romney put in $40 million of his own. he won the nomination. i'm a bit of a bush skeptic. i'm a bit of a skeptic that the donors will make the choice this time. on the other hand as they point out, having a huge fund-raising doesn't hurt. >> chris christie in london. in this iowa poll he's in ninth.

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le, american express comes under pressure as it terminates its deal with costco. great day overall. charles: golly, so confident. here to help the investment pros. paul diedrich.eo chief investment officer. ceo and chief investment officer came back on a good day, paul. we have a new guy who we've been trying to get for a long time. matt vetto. hilary kramer. of a&g capital. hitha herzog is with us. retail sales are out. we'll need help to go through those. and matt mccaul founder and president of penn financials group. huge, huge day. got me tongue-tied. let's dig into the first real, real deal. the market got a lift from geopolitical news. it wasn't the greece news we were looking for. it wasn't greece who came to the consensus. maybe vladimir putin now, whether you believe this whole orchestrated cease-fire will hold or not, i think it was a pleasant valentine's day gift to humanity. for a moment, it looked like all those happy feelings were going to fade, well, the retail sales number was just an absolute bust. at least on the headline, minus eight tenths. ex-autos minus nine tenths. can you believe it? there's something inside the news though, there's som