I used my mother's radio as a PA system. I'd take the telephone, the speaking part, and take those two leads off and lead them into the radio and the sound would come out of the speaker.

Among his many honors Paul is one of a handful of artists with a permanent stand-alone exhibit in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Lester William Polsfuss (June 9 1915 – August 13 2009)—known as Les Paul—was an American jazz country and blues guitarist songwriter luthier and inventor.