Paul McCartney’s original bass guitar, which the legendary musician used in The Beatles’ early years, has been found and returned after it was stolen more than five decades ago (1972).
The 81-year-old singer-songwriter was reunited with the left-handed Höfner 500/1 Violin Bass after its manufacturer and a husband-and-wife team of journalists embarked on a search for the missing instrument in 2018 that later became a crowdsourcing campaign called The Lost Bass Project.
A statement shared Wednesday on McCartney’s website confirmed that the guitar had been discovered and was returned to its original owner.
In this photo released by The Lost Bass Project, Nick Wass, an executive with Hoefner, inspects Paul McCartney’s 1961 violin-shaped Hoefner bass, stolen from the Beatle more than 50 years ago and recently returned. (AP)
Singer, songwriter, musician, and actor.Waylon Jennings is considered one of the pioneers of the outlaw movement in country music.
Jennings started playing guitar at age eight and performed at fourteen on KVOW radio, after which he formed his first band, the Texas Longhorns. Jennings left high school at age sixteen, determined to become a musician, and worked as a performer and DJ on KVOW, KDAV, KYTI, KLLL, in Coolidge, Arizona, and Phoenix. In 1958, Buddy Holly arranged Jennings’ first recording session, a cover of Jole Blon, and hired him to play bass. Jennings gave up his seat on the ill-fated flight in 1959 that crashed and killed Holly, J. P. "the Big Bopper" Richardson and Ritchie Valens.
Jennings died in his sleep from complications of diabetes at his home in Chandler, Arizona, aged 64.
Waylon Jennings ,left, on bass guitar and Buddy Holly.
Gary Graham in the role of the Vulcan Ambassador Soval in "Star Trek: Enterprise."
(FOX NEWS) – Actor Gary Graham, known for his roles in several offshoots of ‘Star Trek’ has passed away.
The actor also guest starred in a variety of popular shows throughout his career, like Starsky and Hutch, The Dukes of Hazzard, and Moonlighting.
His wife of nearly 25 years, Becky Graham, told Fox News Digital that the actor died from cardiac arrest on Monday in a Spokane, Washington hospital. He had a history of heart problems, but Graham says her husband’s 2-day intensive care stay came on suddenly.
Olympic hopeful Nancy Kerrigan was attacked at a Detroit ice rink following a practice session two days before the Olympic trials. A man hit Kerrigan with a club on the back of her knee, causing the figure skater to cry out in pain and bewilderment.
When the full story emerged a week later, the nation became caught up in a real-life soap opera.
One of Kerrigan’s chief rivals for a place on the U.S. Figure Skating Team was Tonya Harding.
In mid-December 1993, Harding’s ex-husband, Jeff Gillooly, approached Shawn Eckardt about somehow eliminating Kerrigan from the competition. Eckardt set up a meeting with Derrick Smith and Shane Stant, who agreed to injure Kerrigan for a fee.