Guitar legend Les Paul dies at age 94; innovator was a key force in creation of rock ‘n’ rollNEW YORK — Les Paul, the guitar virtuoso and inventor who revolutionized music and created rock ‘n’ roll as surely as Elvis Presley and the Beatles by developing the solid-body electric guitar and multitrack recording, died Thursday at age 94. Guitar legend Les Paul dies at age 94; Innovator was a key force in creator of rock ‘n’ rollWHITE PLAINS, N.Y. — Les Paul, who invented the solid-body electric guitar later wielded by a legion of rock ‘n’ roll greats, died Thursday of complications from pneumonia. He was 94. Surviving recession in big cities’ shadows a challenge for suburban arts organizationsWHITE PLAINS, N.Y. — When he hired Itzhak Perlman as artistic director of the Westchester Philharmonic in 2007, Joshua Worby thought he’d hit a grand slam. |
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