les paul, guitar innovator, 94

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www.nytimes.com/2009/08/14...14paul.html

By JON PARELES
Published: August 13, 2009

Les Paul, the virtuoso guitarist and inventor whose solid-body electric guitar and recording studio innovations changed the course of 20th-century popular music, died Thursday in White Plains, N.Y. . He was 94.

The cause was complications of pneumonia, the Gibson Guitar Corporation and his family announced. .
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