Les Paul, father of the solid-body electric guitar, dead at 94
August 13th, 2009 link to (permalink)
Strum out a few chords of Stairway, friends, because the guy who pioneered the solid-body electric guitar, Les Paul, is dead. He died of complications from pneumonia in White Plains, NY. Paul also invented multitrack recording, the process of playing and recording multiple tracks at once.
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