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Article: LES PAUL, 1915-2009: AN ICON MOURNED
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- The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
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- August 14, 2009
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JIM BECKERMAN, STAFF WRITER
The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
08-14-2009
LES PAUL, 1915-2009: AN ICON MOURNED -- 'He changed the face of rock-and-roll'
By JIM BECKERMAN, STAFF WRITER
Date: 08-14-2009, Friday
Section: NEWS
Biographical: LES PAUL
Who will mourn Les Paul, the world-famous Mahwah musician and inventor who died Thursday at age 94?
Anyone who's ever been in a recording studio.
Anyone who has owned a Gibson Les Paul guitar.
Anyone, above all, who loves rock-and-roll. Though a jazzman himself, his pioneer work as an electric guitar inventor and multitrack recording trailblazer made him a kind of honorary rock star.
"He changed the face of rock-and-roll," Kiss guitarist Ace Frehley said ...