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Les Paul

LES PAUL

YEAR

1988

INDUCTED BY

Jeff Beck (The Yardbirds)

CATEGORY

Early Influences

You can’t talk guitars without Les Paul.

More accurately, you can’t talk about even recording music without Les Paul. The lifelong innovator created echo delay, overdubbing, multitracking and more. You can’t overstate Les Paul’s genius.

Les Paul

Les Paul

HALL OF FAME
ESSAY

By Andy Schwartz

Les Paul is an influential jazz guitarist and best-selling pop hitmaker, Les Paul holds a special place in the pantheon of American musical greats.

As a prolific inventor responsible for the development of multitrack recording and the solid-body electric guitar, he is part of a homespun tradition of scientific wizards that includes Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Edison.

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Class of 1988
have a lot of fun with my toys.
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