Les Paul, the pioneering guitarist, songwriter and inventor, was born 100 years ago today. Though his records sold millions, he is perhaps best known for his own brand of electric guitar, the Gibson ...

Legendary electric guitar innovator Les Paul would have been 100 today, and his birth is being honored across the U.S. with a series of special events that will include appearances by some of the ...

The Gibson Les Paul, which was modified to house a smoke bomb in the neck pickup, was one of the final showman electric ...

MAHWAH, N.J. (CBSNewYork) --The Mahwah Museum is celebrating legendary guitarist Les Paul's 100th birthday. Les Paul was born a century ago in Wisconsin, but he lived nearly 60 years in northern New ...

Say the name " Les Paul" to anybody born after 1960, and they'll probably think you're talking about an electric guitar. But the musician and inventor, who was born 100 years ago Tuesday, was also an ...

The sunburst finish is synonymous with the Gibson Les Paul, but of course, Gibson's most famous electric guitar model isn't limited to that iconic colorway. However, the lineup of available looks for ...

“Some guys like Les Paul, confinement couldn’t hold them so they had to invent stuff,” said blues guitar veteran Joe Louis Walker from outside Manhattan’s Hard Rock Café, where he and dozens of other ...

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. According to Gibson Guitar, Paul died ...