Les Paul, the guitar virtuoso who pioneered the design of the solid-body electric guitar and was an innovator of recording techniques embraced by the rock ‘n’ roll generation, died Thursday of ...

The First Gibson Les Paul Goldtop Guitar Is Up For Auction This guitar was owned, customized and adored by Les Paul, who helped develop Gibson's solid body guitar in the 1950s.

But the actual advent of the solid-body electric guitar, sometime in the 1940s, was a tangled tale of tinkerers, craftsmen, musicians and businessmen who hardly realized what they had unleashed.

When the first Les Paul model was introduced in 1952, it sold for $210. ... Solid-body electric guitars don't have a sound hole, so they don't reverberate in the same way.

Historians and guitar enthusiasts enjoy debating over who really developed the first solid-body Spanish-style guitar to resolve these sound issues.

Family members, longtime friends and music fans of all ages lined up Friday at a public visitation for Les Paul, the inventor whose creation of the first solid-body electric guitar ...

NEW YORK — Musicians worldwide are paying tribute to Les Paul, the music icon whose solid-body electric guitar paved the way for rock ‘n’ roll. The guitar virtuoso who died Thursday at age ...

Musicians worldwide are paying tribute to Les Paul, the music icon whose solid-body electric guitar paved the way for rock 'n' roll. He died this week at age 94.

Sure, the world’s first solid-body electric guitar lacks the sexiness of its strapping Gibson cousin, made famous by Eric Clapton and Jimmy Page, and the celebrity of its trim sister, ...

It may not be an Arthurian tale of Sir Percival in pursuit of the Holy Grail, but Tony Bacon’s “Million Dollar Les Paul” (Jawbone: 288 pp., $19.95 paper) is still about a romantic quest. The ...

The Fender company calls the Esquire the first solid-body electric guitar. Unfortunately, according to the Fort Collins Museum of Discovery, Fender only made about 50 of these original guitars.