Nancy, where it has the "@[user's name]" in the compose box... just erase that by doing a backspace before typing your post.

@toris No disagreement here! Like I wrote before I always think he looks great no matter what!

@njr I was surprised to hear about Kevin Costner's recent separation, and the divorce in court is still ongoing I think... his ex is wanting a lot of money... anyway, thought he and his wife were pretty solid... Was also surprised many years ago when Mel Gibson and his wife split. He's a devout Catholic and he joked once that strict Catholics don't get divorced, if there's a serious problem in your marriage and you want out, you just get on your knees "and pray that one of us will die."

My sister's ex-husband works with someone who was friends with Brad Pitt during his college years at MU (University of Missouri-Columbia) and still keeps in contact with him... he was not surprised that "Brangelina" split - he felt the initial attraction between them and ensuing relationship was based purely on sex and other than that they had nothing in common, personality wise. Seems they couldn't agree on even basic things, including how to raise their children. He predicted that when the initial attraction wore off their relationship wouldn't last, and he was right.

@njr Ai carumba! (biting knuckles) he looks so gorgeous here! Always loved seeing this photo, thanks for posting!

Lucky Linda!! Well, I guess they were both lucky.... to have found each other!

@njr Nancy, I was really surprised to read about Hugh Jackman's split as well. He had health problems a year or more ago, that can usually cause stress in a relationship... but usually it pulls people together to help each other get through it! I remember reading that Catherine Zeta Jones and Michael Douglas separated for a while when he was going through his throat and tongue cancer ordeal, but eventually they worked through that and got back together.

Looks like he's letting his hair grow long in the back as well. For someone who's 81 years old he looks pretty good. People didn't mind when Sean Connery grew a short beard in his later acting years.

Last time Paul grew a beard was when the Beatles were breaking up in 1969. He had met Linda and that was a happy time for him, but he was going through depression as well. Can't help wondering why he's growing a beard at this stage of his life... hopefully he isn't going through a life depression of some kind now... But it could be he's just decided to go low maintenance.. or maybe he's developed barber's itch or has a terrible case of adolescent acne that the beard would cover? Who knows... but IMO he always look gorgeous no matter what... shrug

@njr Thanks, Nancy!

@jimmix It's interesting that CNN reported this is something just started in 2023 https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/04/entertainment/paul-mccartney-hofner-bass-guitar-search-intl-hnk/index.html but this campaign for the bass was launched by the same guy at Hofner about 2-3 years ago.

I started a thread here about it in 2021.
https://maccaboard.paulmccartney.com/topic/8132/campaign-to-find-pauls-stolen-hofner-bass/2?_=1694030646861
The website for this campaign used to be on the Hofner site, but it now has it's own domain https://thelostbass.com/

I emailed Nick Wass at Hofner a few years ago about helping with research on what happened to Paul's lost Hofner. He (Nick) was very kind and is appreciative of any help. He said the only thing he doesn't want fans to do is email him about hunches or ideas on what happened, without having any proof or documentation.

Hopefully it can be found in Paul's lifetime, it would probably mean so much to him if he could get that back. He probably felt a real sense of loss when it was gone.

I sometimes wonder if "Confidante" on Egypt Station was written about his lost Hofner. A bass isn't probably an instrument that he used to compose songs, though, except when he was in the studio working out his bass part. A bass is more of a performance instrument. Seems like in the early days of his songwriting he enjoyed just taking an acoustic guitar and strumming and coming up with riffs and melodies and went from there. He's probably always done that, and no doubt still does!

@njr I've posted this before, but this cartoon mentions his motorbike accident! Seems like it took a while for him to get his chipped tooth repaired.

Not sure when this was taken or what song was being recorded ... can't tell what the lyrics are.. but think he was wearing John Lennon's glasses.
Not sure if that's a cigar or rolled up cigarette in the Gold Leaf box. That might explain why he's wearing the glasses... or it could be he just enjoyed being silly and having fun.

@wandy Awww, you're welcome!