Les Paul is dead

Les Paul, whose pioneering electric guitars were used by a legion of rock stars, has died at the age of 94.

Mr Paul died from complications of pneumonia in New York, according to Gibson, the firm that sold his guitars.

He is credited with developing one of the first solid-body electric guitars, which went on sale in 1952 and contributed to the birth of rock.

He also developed other influential recording innovations such as multi-track recording and overdubbing.

And he was credited with inventing the eight-track tape recorder.
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The Gibson Les Paul is a solid body electric guitar originally developed in the early 1950s. The Les Paul was designed by Ted McCarty in collaboration with popular guitarist
Les Paul, whom Gibson enlisted to endorse the new model.
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he had some albums with mark knopfler that were supposed to be amazing...always meant to check those out
 
More famous for the guitar named after him than as an artist. I wonder how well that paid.
 
He was one of the founding people to use multi track recording as well. He is defiantly more famous for what he did with music than his music.
 
Floptical said:
He was one of the founding people to use multi track recording as well. He is defiantly more famous for what he did with music than his music.
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that should be what's leading the news. not the fact he designed a guitar or whatever.
 
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