Read the following introductory paragraph, which is missing a hook Les Paul was a legendary guitarist, songwriter, and inventor. If you don't know his work, a minute of googling will bring up loving remembrances from nearly everyone in the music industry . It isn't a stretch to say that without Les innovations in guitar and recording technology, the music we love wouldn't sound the same, either in person or on a record. What sticks with me though, is his incredible passion for performing. He was one of those artists who simply had to play order to live a young man, his right arm was crushed in a car accident. He had the doctors and pin it at a permanent 90 degree angle, so he could still hold a guitar. As an older man, arthritis stiffened his fingers beyond bendingHe taught himself how to play with them straight