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NEWS ABOUT: Les Paul

Les Paul stories: 2 news summaries
appreciation

 Les Paul's 
 Genius 
 Will Be 
 Missed


Aug 13, 09 3:57 PM CDT
(Newser) - Les Paul's death today at age 94 has the accolades pouring in:
  • Lou Carlozo, True/Slant: "The solid-body Les Paul guitar that Lester developed with Gibson in the early 1950s is rock and roll. Like the Fender Stratocaster, its shape is so synonymous with the genre that any
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obituary

 Music Legend  
 Les Paul Dead at 94 

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

Aug 13, 09 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 York Times. His popular Gibson... More »

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