Les Paul

When Les Paul spoke to People magazine in 1988, he said of author Mary Shaughnessy, "She listens and observes a lot, even things I don't tell her. If I clear my throat, she goes to the doctor and finds out if there's anything wrong with me." Now, five years later, Shaughnessy has captured the fascinating life of the man whose revolutionary recording techniques and guitar-playing reshaped popular music and paved the way for rock and roll. Known variously in his long. Career as Mr. Guitar, the Wizard of Waukesha, and the Thomas Edison of Rock and Roll, Les Paul dominated not one but a whole…