Clarence Leo Fender, founder of the Fender Musical Instruments Corporation, would have celebrated his 115th birthday this year, which also marks the 70th anniversary of the company’s the iconic ...

Les Paul, 94, a Grammy Award-winning guitar virtuoso and inventor of the solid-body electric guitar who helped bring his instrument to the forefront of jazz and rock-and-roll performance, died Aug. 13 ...

Les Paul, the guitar virtuoso who pioneered the design of the solid-body electric guitar and was an innovator of recording techniques embraced by the rock ‘n’ roll generation, died Thursday of ...

The joke in This Is Spinal Tap about an amp that “goes to 11” has particular resonance for anybody who’s ever picked up a solid-body electric guitar. The history of rock music is a gloriously loud one ...