Les Paul: June 9, 1915 – August 13, 2009
Is anyone not going to die this summer? (That joke, I guess, is still kicking. Barely.) Les Paul—a virtuoso jazz guitarist who pioneered the practice of multitrack recording and invented what is still the most beautiful electric guitar ever made, the Gibson Les Paul—died of pneumonia today in White Plains, New York. He was 94. He was great and very, very important. Above, a video for "The World Is Waiting for the Sunrise," the 1951 hit he recorded with his wife, Mary Ford.
Hats off to Les Paul.
There's a lot of everyone who owes him.
A real sweetheart too, with a great sense of humor and self-deprecation despite having pretty much invented the whole modern music thing. Huge sadness.
While Every Single Guitar [Especially the Les Pauls] Gently Weeps.
Thanks for this great link.