The inimitable Les Paul: retired since 1979, the Master Tinkerer is back in the groove
Gene Santoro, Pulse!, September 1984
LESTER POLFUS may not be a name to conjure with, but Les Pau! certainly is. Among his many accomplishments: the invention of the Les Paul solid-body electric guitar, that basic rock 'n' roll axe; the invention of multi-track recording, which in the early 1950s won wide popularity for him and then-wife Mary Ford as they released overdubbed hit after hit featuring their "New Sound"; phase shifting, echo, tape delay, and so on, and so on, and so on. Sometimes you have to wonder how he found the time to play the guitar at all.
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