When I got my first guitar my fingers wouldn't go to the sixth string so I took off the big E and played with just five strings. I was only 6 or 7.

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.