The Twist - (1960s) women The Beatles instruments: Paul's Hofner

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The Twist - (1960s) women The Beatles instruments: Paul's HofnerThe Twist New Yorks trendiest discovered the Peppermint Lounge, a sleazy hole in the wall in Times Square. There, singer Joey Dee and the Starlighters let loose with the twist, first recorded in 1959 by Hank Ballard before Chubby Checker picked it up and toured the country. It was a dance revolution, and one that Moscows Literary Gazette called: a dance performed to a noisy variation of rock n roll played by drums of the stone age. Let's TWIST!