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The Star
6 days ago
- Entertainment
- The Star
Michael J. Fox appeals for help finding lost 'Back To The Future' guitar
Michael J. Fox and other stars of classic film 'Back To The Future' appealed for the public's help in locating the red Gibson guitar featured in a memorable scene. Photos: Reuters, Gibson TV/YouTube Michael J. Fox and other stars of classic film Back To The Future appealed for the public's help on June 3 in locating the red Gibson guitar featured in a memorable scene. Marty McFly, the time-travelling teen portrayed by Fox in the 1985 film, stunned students at a 1950s high school dance with wild electric guitar riffs played on a Gibson ES-345 Cherry Red guitar in the movie. The guitar went missing after production wrapped. "It's somewhere lost in the space-time continuum, or it's in some Teamster's garage," Fox joked in a video released by Gibson. Co-stars Lea Thompson, Christopher Lloyd and Harry Waters Jr. also urged the public to join the search, as did singer Huey Lewis, whose song The Power Of Love was featured in the movie. Gibson is filming a documentary called Lost To The Future about the search for the guitar. It also plans to re-issue the ES-345 Cherry Red in October. People can submit tips about the guitar's whereabout via or via a phone number provided on the site. – Reuters
BBC News
25-05-2025
- Health
- BBC News
'Love conquers all' - Wakefield couple marry on intensive care unit
When 49-year-old David Fontana told his girlfriend he loved her for the first time, Jennifer Rush's hit song The Power of Love was playing in the years later, the same track was playing as Joanne Stringfellow, 55, walked down a corridor at an intensive care unit to marry pair, who married at Pinderfields Hospital in Wakefield just 24 hours after they were told to say their final goodbyes, have been speaking to the BBC. "We thought it would be something nice to do before it happened," Mrs Fontana Fontana has a rare autoimmune condition impacting the lungs and is classed as being in single organ failure. When Mr Fontana's dependency on an oxygen machine became more severe, he was told there was little more medics could do to help him."It was a big shock, and we said about getting married," Mrs Fontana said. Newly married Mrs Fontana said hospital staff "did everything" to make the South Elmsall pair's wedding on 29 April feel special in difficult Fontana had been using a CPAP hood to assist with his breathing, but they instead fitted him with a nasal cannula for the wedding to allow the couple to with emotion upon seeing her groom's face, Mrs Fontana ran down the makeshift aisle at the hospital in West Yorkshire."When we got to the door I was so pleased to see Dave's face that I just let go of my dad's hand and ran up and kissed him," she said. Six of the couple's friends were present at the service, a poem supplied by the registry office was read and the hospital canteen provided a Fontana's ward room was decorated by hospital staff without the couple's knowledge."The day before they had been running around with the banners and balloons trying to avoid me," Mrs Fontana said."To be fair, that day, you probably could have smacked me in the face and I would not have even noticed because we were absorbed in ourselves having had that news." Against all odds, Mr Fontana's health has improved since the wedding and he has been moved to an acute care described the experience as "surreal" after watching back a wedding video made by hospital staff."Here I am three weeks later, still alive and kicking," Mr Fontana it may not have been the wedding the couple usually would have planned for, the pair described it as "very special"."I keep telling everybody that love conquers all and it is the love and the care between us that has spurred him on, though science will probably say that it was the drugs kicking in," Mrs Fontana concluded. Listen to highlights from West Yorkshire on BBC Sounds, catch up with the latest episode of Look North.
