Jay Jay French ( Twisted Sister) uses a Les Paul. Ace Frehley ( Kiss) uses a customized Les Paul with DiMarzio humbuckers. He has also been pictured with an ebony finish Sheraton II. Matthew Followill ( Kings of Leon) plays a vintage sunburst Sheraton II. Richie Faulkner ( Judas Priest) plays a signature Flying V Custom Outfit. There are also pictures of The Edge playing a Sheraton II. Bob Dylan used different acoustic guitars from Epiphone. Pete Doherty ( The Libertines/ Babyshambles) uses a Coronet as his main electric guitar. Tom DeLonge ( Blink-182, Angels & Airwaves) uses his signature ES-333 in both Epiphone and Gibson versions. Dave Davies ( Kinks) can be seen playing an Epiphone Casino in the video for " All Day and All of the Night". Has Epiphone signature model named for him. 
Billie Joe Armstrong ( Green Day) used an electric Epiphone, notably he gave it away to a fan during a live performance of the song " Knowledge". Rex) used an acoustic Epiphone, notably at Wembley in 1972. Epiphone has issued a McCartney signature Texan replicating this guitar. McCartney used his Texan acoustic extensively for songwriting he also performed the song " Yesterday" on it during an appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show, and still uses this guitar to perform "Yesterday" in current concerts. Epiphone produces two John Lennon signature model Casinos: One is a sunburst model resembling Lennon's prior to his alteration of the finish the second, known as the "Revolution" Casino, is a replica of Lennon's after he had his sunburst Casino professionally sanded down to its natural finish. Lennon's Casino, first used on the album Revolver, became his main studio and stage guitar both with The Beatles and as a solo artist. In December 1964, Paul McCartney purchased a 1964 Texan FT-79 acoustic and a 1962 Casino early in 1966 George Harrison and John Lennon followed suit, acquiring Casino E230TDs which they used regularly on stage and in the studio thereafter. The Beatles made prominent use of Casinos. It can be seen in several videos from the "Carnavas" album. Brian Aubert ( Silversun Pickups) uses a vintage sunburst Sheraton II as his primary guitar. Basically anything produced in the USA up to 1969. Models to look out for: Epiphone Casino, Wilshire, Crestwood, Sorrento, Sheraton, Zephyr, Howard Roberts, Rivoli bass and Embassy Deluxe bass. They continued producing a handful of original Epiphone models in the USA, and created a range of new models (based on Gibson equivalents) until 1969, when production was outsourced to Japan. 
After the death of the main driving force Epi Stathopoulos, and union problems of the 1950s, Gibson was able to take advantage of the uncertainty, paying just $20,000 for the company in 1957. The early story of Epiphone, and it's take-over by Gibson has been told many times, but in short: Epiphone were producing some of the finest archtop guitars in the world, one of Gibson's few rivals.
Although later Japanese, Korean and Chinese guitars make fine entry, and intermediate level instruments, they do not compete with the classic instruments produced in the USA. Epiphone brand guitars have been made in numerous factories in many locations worldwide, however by far the best instruments (and therefore the most desired) are those made by the the Stathopoulos family in New York in the 1950s, and those made by Gibson in Kalamazoo, MI in the 1960s.
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