{"id":1925,"date":"2009-08-13T09:37:21","date_gmt":"2009-08-13T16:37:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2009\/08\/les-paul-gone\/"},"modified":"2009-08-13T09:38:52","modified_gmt":"2009-08-13T16:38:52","slug":"les-paul-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2009\/08\/13\/les-paul-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"Les Paul Gone"},"content":{"rendered":"

from The Kansas City Star<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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Guitar legend Les Paul dies at age 94<\/h1>\n

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By LUKE SHERIDAN<\/h4>\n

Associated Press Writer<\/h4>\n

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Les Paul, the guitarist and inventor who changed the course of music with the electric guitar and multitrack recording and had a string of hits, many with wife Mary Ford, died on Thursday. He was 94.<\/p>\n

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According to Gibson Guitar, Paul died of complications from pneumonia at White Plains Hospital. His family and friends were by his side.<\/p>\n

He had been hospitalized in February 2006 when he learned he won two Grammys for an album he released after his 90th birthday, “Les Paul & Friends: American Made, World Played.”<\/p>\n

“I feel like a condemned building with a new flagpole on it,” he joked.<\/p>\n

As an inventor, Paul helped bring about the rise of rock ‘n’ roll and 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.<\/p>\n

With Ford, his wife from 1949 to 1962, he earned 36 gold records and 11 No. 1 pop hits, including “Vaya Con Dios,” “How High the Moon,” “Nola” and “Lover.” Many of their songs used overdubbing techniques that Paul the inventor had helped develop.<\/p>\n

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