General   (General discussion, talk about anything.)

I always thought it was Rickenbacker who invented electric guitars, but I thought wrong, as it wasn't. It was somebody else. I learned it, from a book.
I also thought that Les Paul himself designed his own electric guitar, as an improvement of the previously designed model and Fender improved on Les Paul's design.

Once you have an 'idea' imprinted in t'yed, it's hard to shift. Even when the real story is told.
A bit like Marks and Spencer, happening to open a shop in Wigan, a few years after they'd opened other shops in other places, it's always thought, in Wigan, laaaaike, that Wigan was THE first.
I've also heard it said that William Lever, you know, the one from Bolton who didn't invent soap?, opened his first 'soap making establishment / shop' in Wigan. Not so.
Beecham too. All false rumours. The list is endless. And that's one thing that Wigan HAS got, the longest list of false claims in existance. And the first list in the World, actually!