to play left-handed with the Wipers) Gregor Mackintosh (Paradise Lost) Gustavo Cordera (Bersuit Vergarabat) Hayley Kiyoko Ian Fowles (The Aquabats, Death By Stereo) Iggy Pop Imai Hisashi (Buck-Tick) Jeffrey Steele (formerly of Boy Howdy) Jill Barber Jimi Hendrix (wrote right-handed) Jo Callis (The Rezillos/The Human League) Joanna Wang Jonathan Butler John Flansburgh (They Might Be Giants) Josey Scott (Saliva) Joyce Jonathan (French pop singer) Justin Bieber Mark "Kazzer" Kasprzyk (Redlight King/Solo) Klaus Eichstadt (Ugly Kid Joe) Kurt Cobain (Nirvana) (wrote right-handed) Lars Johansson (Candlemass) William H. "Lefty" Bates Lukas Rossi can play the guitar with either hand. Luke Morley (Thunder / The Union) Mac Powell (Third Day) Maria Taylor (Azure Ray, Little Red Rocket, Now It's Overhead, solo) Martin Bramah (The Fall/Blue Orchids) Mdou Moctar Nicke Andersson (The Hellacopters, Imperial State Electric) Ollie Halsall Omar Rodríguez-López (At the Drive-In/The Mars Volta) Pasi Koskinen (St. Mucus, Ajattara, To Separate the Flesh from the Bones) Paul Gray (Slipknot) started out playing right-handed, then changed to left-handed as it was more comfortable being left-handed. Paul McCartney (The Beatles) first struggled playing right-handed, but then saw a picture of Slim Whitman playing left-handed and realized that he could reverse the guitar, reverse the strings, and pick with the left hand . Paul Mullen (The Automatic/Young Legionnaire/Yourcodenameis:milo) Paulo Furtado (Wraygunn/The Legendary Tigerman) Pernilla Andersson Perry Bamonte (The Cure) Ragnar Þórhallsson (Of Monsters and Men) Rami Yosifov (Teapacks) Richie Stotts (Plasmatics) Robin Campbell (UB40) Ronnie Radke (Falling in Reverse, ex-Escape the Fate) Santiago Feliú Shae Dupuy Slim Whitman (was right-handed but played guitar left-handed due to loss of his two fingers on the left hand) Stella Parton Sylvia Tyson Ted Gärdestad Ted Sablay (The Killers) Christian Savill (Slowdive) Templeton Thompson (female country singer-songwriter) Tim Armstrong (Rancid) Tony Iommi (Black Sabbath) Toronzo Cannon Willie Duncan (Spider Murphy Gang) Will Glover (The Pyramids) Verónica Romero Vicentico Zacky Vengeance (Avenged Sevenfold; started to play right-handed but then shortly moved to left-handed playing) Andrew "Whitey" White (Kaiser Chiefs) Michael Zakarin (The Bravery) Left-handed with strings backwards These are left-handed players who play naturally, but with the strings organized to emulate an unaltered right-handed guitar, thus the strings are backwards for a left-handed player. The guitar is held left-handed with the high string on the top side of the neck (e.g. Bob Geldof). Some players in this category (e.g. Dick Dale and Albert King) had left-handed guitars with the strings as