The Authorized biography of Les Paul, " The Wizard of Waukesha". The name Les Paul is synonymous with the electric guitar. As a player, inventor, and recording artist(Paul had two #1 hits with his wife Mary Ford), Paul has been and innovator from the early years of his life. In 1928, thirteen-year-old Les Paul borrowed a phonograph needle from the family Victrola, stuck it under the strings of his Sear Roebuck guitar, and wired the contraption to a telephone mike and two radio speakers, thus achieving not only amplification but a crude stereo effect. The pioneering young musician then went on to invent scores of ingenious recording techniques, including overdubbing and multi-track recorders, as well as the solid-body electric guitar at the heart of the rock and roll revolution. Still spry at age 90, Les Paul tells his own classic rags-to-riches story in a feature-length HD documentary-with a soundtrack of greatest hits from Bing Crosby, Chet Atkins, B.B. KIng, and rock legends Jimi Hendrix, Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page, Keith Richards and Paul McCartney.

Starring:

Anderson Cooper, BB King, Billy Jackson, Bonnie Raitt, Edward Van Halen, Jeff Beck, John Mack, John Paris, Kay Starr, Keith Richards, Les Paul, Mary Ford, Merle Haggard, Paul McCartney, Richard Carpenter, Richie Sambora, Sonya Hensley, Steve Miller, Susan Baker, The Beatles, Tony Bennett

Genre:

Documentary, Romance, History, Music, Biography