Inventor of fuzz dies

GLENN Snoddy, a recording engineer whose invention of a pedal that allowed guitarists to create a fuzzy, distorted sound most famously used by Keith Richards in the Rolling Stones’ hit (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction has died. He was 96.

His daughter Dianne Mayo said he died of congestive heart failure at his Tennessee home.

Snoddy was helping record country artist Marty Robbins’ song Don’t Worry in 1961 when a malfunction caused the distortion in a guitar solo, which inspired him to create a pedal to mimic the effect.