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I can't stop listening to this....

 

 

 

The visuals that show Joe "in motion" are an  extrodinary example of what overall body accecptance of music is. Some have it, some don't, some don't allow themselves to openly dispaly it. 

When you can see that, feel that, and alllow yourself, it can be very enjoyable.

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2024/02/16/fbi-charles-mcgonigal-sentenced/

 

Paul McCartney’s bass guitar was missing for 51 years. Fans helped find it.

February 16, 2024 at 10:28 a.m. EST
 
Paul McCartney, circa 1960, performs onstage at the Cavern Club in Liverpool during the early days the Beatles. (Keystone/Getty Images)
 
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LONDON — For decades, the fate of Paul McCartney’s bass guitar baffled the music world. Heard in recordings of some of the most famous Beatles hits, including “Love Me Do” and “Twist and Shout,” the bass guitar had been lost since it was stolen in 1972 without a trace.

 

Beatles fans flocked to help track down the guitar — and return it to its famous owner — as part of a project set up to solve the mystery.

 

“Following the launch of last year’s Lost Bass project, Paul’s 1961 Höfner 500/1 bass guitar, which was stolen in 1972, has been returned,” a statement published on McCartney’s website said Thursday. McCartney, it added, “is incredibly grateful to all those involved.”

Organizers of the crowdsourcing endeavor, known as the Lost Bass Project that was set up in 2018 to find the missing instrument, said they were “thrilled” by the news and “proud that we played a major role” in its rediscovery.

“It has been a dream since 2018 that it could be done. Despite many telling us that it was lost forever or destroyed, we persisted until it was back where it belonged,” the statement said.

Scott Jones, a British journalist, was watching Paul McCartney perform at Glastonbury — one of the world’s most famous music festivals — with his wife in 2022 when he suddenly wondered about the instrument the former Beatles star was playing. Was it the same bass guitar McCartney used to record some of the band’s greatest hits? (McCartney bought the bass guitar in Hamburg in 1961 and used it to record the Beatles’ first two albums, according to the project. It was later used as a backup instrument, but continued to be used until the group broke up in 1969.)

Jones said he and his wife Naomi — both journalists with a background in research and investigations — contacted Nick Wass, a McCartney collaborator who has worked at Höfner and had launched the project, to see if they could help. Wass is “absolutely the world’s expert on violin Höfner basses, and he’s the expert on Paul’s bass,” according to Jones. Wass co-wrote the definitive book about the Höfner 500/1 Violin Bass and has worked closely with McCartney’s team to supply parts and basses, according to a Beatles museum in Liverpool.

“We were just fascinated by the routes that guitar may have gone down,” Jones said. “We also could see that if we were successful, this would have a real legacy.”

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