Les Paul (Born Lester Polfuss)
June 9, 1915 – August 12, 2009
Les Paul was one of popular music’s most important figures. Besides recording a string of hits with wife, Mary Ford during the ’40s and ’50s, Paul was a guitar legend who not only invented the Les Paul guitar which would be used by future guitar heroes to this day, he also developed multi-track recording, which changed popular music forever. It allowed singers and musicians to record their parts separately and then pieced together later for the final record. Les Paul died of pneumonia in a New York hospital at the age of 94.
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