Paul's Famous Guitar Plays On -- Inventor of Famous Instrument Dies at 94

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NEW YORK - Les Paul, the guitar virtuoso and inventor who revolutionized music and created rock and roll as surely as Elvis Presley and The Beatles by developing the solid-body electric guitar and multitrack recording, died Thursday at age 94.

Paul performed with some of early pop's biggest names and produced a slew of hits, many with wife Mary Ford. But it was his inventive streak that made him universally revered by guitar gods as their original ancestor and earned his induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as one of the most important forces in popular music.

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Paul's Famous Guitar Plays On -- Inventor of Famous Instrument Dies at 94

Paul, who died in White Plains, N.Y., of complications from pneumonia, was a tireless tinkerer, whose quest for a particular so...

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