A former Rolling Stone says the Met has his stolen guitar. The museum disputes it.

Mick Jagger, center, Ronnie Wood, left, and Mick Taylor, of The Rolling Stones, perform on the Pyramid main stage at Glastonbury, England, June 29, 2013. AP, June 29, 2013

LONDON — It’s only rock ’n’ roll, but it’s messy.

A guitar once played by two members of the Rolling Stones is at the center of a dispute between the band’s former guitarist Mick Taylor and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

The 1959 Gibson Les Paul was donated to the Met as part of what the New York museum calls “a landmark gift of more than 500 of the finest guitars from the golden age of American guitar making.” The donor is Dirk Ziff, a billionaire investor and guitar collector.

When the Met announced the gift in May, Taylor thought he recognized the guitar, with its distinctive “starburst” finish, as an instrume