It's all in code Joe.

Les Paul is credited with designing the first solid body guitar*

He's credited with making the first multi-track recording*

He did the first "on stage and live" VOCAL multi-track performance*

After busting his arm badly in a car accident, he insisted the doctors fuse the arm into a permanently crooked "playing position"!*

* he didn't actually. A man named Appleton patented the first one (source: Tom Wheeler's Guitar book)

*he didn't actually. Sidney Bechet did. You can hear it on my favourite website, Red Hot Jazz.

* he didn't actually. In a brilliant move, he HID another vocalist (with a mike) in the wings to sing harmony with Mary Ford.

* He DID, actually.

Rick