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Tessa Seymour Cellist. Sean Richard Dulake Actor. Jonathan Welsh Football Player. Eva Dahlgren Writer. To get a fuller sound on some songs, Paul tinkered with one of the first tape recorders to figure out how he could record one track at the same time he was playing back another track. It was the beginning of multi-track recording and sound-on-sound -- an essential approach to modern music-making. Paul signed with Capitol Records in and his crisp, smooth sound and small-combo approach was red hot.
He was still a wizard: Paul began melding live and recorded tracks and playing with the tape speed. By then, Paul had met singer-guitarist Colleen Summers, to whom he later gave the stage name Mary Ford.
After a serious car accident in and a career-threatening arm injury Paul persuaded doctors to set his broken limb in a bent position that allowed him to still pick , the couple had mastered the sound that opened the door to their huge popularity.
At one point, 13 consecutive Paul-Ford tunes sold more than half a million copies. The couple became so popular that from to they hosted a five-minute weekday TV show from their home. It just absolutely stopped. But Paul was more famous as a brand name than as a recording star by then. In , for instance, a youngster named Steve Jones admired a Gibson Les Paul with a sunburst paint job that sat in the window of a Shaftesbury Avenue music shop in London.
Jones liked the guitar so much he stole it and began a music career. As the guitarist for the Sex Pistols, he ushered in another new generation of players. That guitar of his, it was the only one for me.
In , when Paul was nearing 70, he returned to the stage, appearing in New York clubs. Paul is survived by three sons, Lester, Gene and Robert; a daughter, Colleen Wess; five grandchildren and five great-grandchildren; and longtime friend Arlene Palmer. A private service will be held in New York. Sylvere Lotringer, intellectual who infused U. Bobbie Kirkhart, the matriarch of atheism in L.
All Sections. About Us. B2B Publishing. Business Visionaries. By then, Paul had teamed up with the guitar manufacturer Gibson, which had hired him to design a Les Paul guitar. Paul had approached Gibson in , but it took 10 years, and Leo Fender introducing his solid body guitar for Gibson, for the company to develop what is now known as the Gibson Les Paul.
Since its debut in the Gibson Les Paul has been one of the most popular and best-selling guitars. Paul's commitment to his music was such that in a car accident left him with a shattered right elbow. Faced with doctors setting the arm in a position that wouldn't again be movable, Paul, ever mindful of his career, asked that it be set at a slight angle so he could still play guitar. Paul's influence on the music world extended far beyond the guitar. With the encouragement of Bing Crosby , with whom Paul had performed and recorded, Paul built a recording studio in his garage in his Los Angeles home in There, Paul experimented with a number of different recording techniques.
His breakthrough came in with a recording of the song "Lover," which utilized a variety of tracks and introduced his multiple new recording techniques.
Paul changed her name to Mary Ford and began recording with her. They married in , and for much of the s the two had their own television show, Les Paul and Mary Ford at Home.
In addition, the couple had more than three dozen hits together, all of them utilizing the recording techniques Paul had created in his studio. In his later years, Paul's standing and legend in the music industry only increased. Paul won two Grammy Awards for the album.
According to Rolling Stone magazine, Paul died from complications associated with pneumonia on August 12, Other sources have listed August 13 as the date of his death, but his memorial in Waukesha, Wisconsin, lists August 12 as the official date. Paul was laid to rest in the Prairie Home Cemetery alongside his mother.
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