Paul Warren Dean (born February 19, 1946 in Vancouver, British Columbia) is the lead guitarist for the Canadian rock band Loverboy which reached huge fame in the early 1980s. 　　Growing up in Calgary, Alberta, Dean first started playing washtub bass at the age of 12, then a plastic wind-up ukulele which he had received for Christmas at the age of 13. He had received his first guitar 2 months later, an acoustic, which he smashed playing badminton with it when he saved to buy his first electric guitar, later that summer.