Guitar Genius: How Les Paul Engineered the Solid-Body Electric Guitar and Rocked the World

A picture book biography of Les Paul, considered to be the father of the solid-body electric guitar. From the time he was a kid, Les scrutinised his family’s gadgets, tinkered in his father’s garage, and took everything in his mother’s living room apart the phonograph, the player piano, the telephone, the radio.

With his irrepressible curiosity and an endless faith in what is possible, Les Paul created the world’s first solid-body electric guitar, countless other inventions that have changed modern music, and one truly epic career in rock and roll.