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Guitar builder, player, legend Les Paul died at 94

Lester William Polsfuss known as Les Paul, who invented the solid-body electric guitar later wielded by a legion of rock ‘n’ roll greats, died Thursday of complications from pneumonia. He was 94.

According to Gibson Guitar, Paul died at White Plains Hospital. His family and friends were by his side.

As an inventor, Paul also helped bring about the rise of rock ‘n’ roll with multitrack recording, which enables artists to record different instruments at different times, sing harmony with themselves, and then carefully balance the tracks in the finished recording.

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Without Paul, there is no rock guitar in the hands of folks like Led Zeppelin’s Jimmy Page.
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For more information see Wikipedia here.

News articles:

• Blogspot
• New York times

Video's:

• Last word
• Interview with Les Paul. wonderful how he started playing again after having arthritis

The most powerful text I personally ever heard of him:

"When you're my age, you know that the end is in sight. How do you handle it? You live for the moment. The past is gone and the future isn't here yet. And you ain't gonna change it, no matter what you think. And so the most obvious thing to do is right now." - Les Paul

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