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Music Legend Les Paul Dead at 94

Inventor, guitarist 'changed the course of 20th-century popular music'

By Matt Cantor,  Newser Staff

Posted Aug 13, 2009 1:05 PM CDT

(Newser) – Musical innovator and guitar legend Les Paul died today in White Plains, NY. He was 94. A “virtuoso guitarist” himself, in the early 1940s Paul pioneered the “log” guitar, “probably the first solid-body electric guitar," writes Jon Pareles of the New ...   Read full story »

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