FACTBOX: Music world comments on passing of Les Paul | Entertainment | Music | Reuters
If you don't know who this man is, it's time to give up your guitar. Hell, you may as well turn in your plastic guitar simulacrum. He is perhaps the single most influential person in guitar-based music of the 20th century. Now I regret missing seeing him last year when I had the chance. Even at his age, he could perform as well as ever.