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Nine months ago I sat down with Les Paul backstage in his dressing room at the Iridium nightclub for a story about the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s tribute concert recently held in his honor. As we shared a bag of popcorn, Paul told me about creating the solid-body electric guitar and what drove him to keep performing a weekly show well into his 90s. “I think it’s therapy,” Paul said. “I think that it’s the love of the instrument and the fact that rather than to grow old watching TV, or just layin’ around the house trying to get from the bedroom to the bathroom, that it’s better to be amongst your friends, make new friends, and to play with a younger generation of people.” Click below to hear excerpts from the interview.
Also see our Les Paul obituary, and a look back at his remarkable life in photos.
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