Campaign Launched to Find Paul McCartney’s Missing Bass Guitar

A major campaign has been launched to find a missing musical “treasure” more than half a century ago, namely a bass guitar that Paul McCartney bought from Hamburg, Germany, in 1961 and on which he played some of the most successful songs of the British band “The Beatles”.
Paul McCartney bought this instrument for £30 ($38 at the current exchange rate) in Hamburg, Germany in 1961. Its tune can be heard on popular songs by the former band.
McCartney also played it in concerts in Hamburg and Liverpool, and during the first recordings at Abbey Road, the legendary studio in London.
In January 1969, while the Beatles were in London to record a song, their guitar disappeared.
Nick Wass, who works for Hofner, the bass guitar brand, and journalists Scott and Naomi Jones launched The Lost Bass project, hoping to find the instrument and solve what they call “the lost bass”. The biggest mystery in the history of rock and roll.
Nick Wass told several British media that Paul McCartney told him about the bass guitar during a recent conversation with him, which prompted him to launch the campaign.
For his part, Scott Jones said, “It is very important for him (McCartney) to see this guitar again, because it was his first instrument,” and the guitar may have reached the hands of its current owner “innocently”, “without realizing what he owns.”
“This is the search for the most important bass guitar in history (…) and we need your help to find its trace,” the initiators of the initiative wrote, on a website launched specifically for the project.
And for those who think that this is an impossible task, the owners of the project remind that in 1963, John Lennon lost his guitar, but the instrument reappeared after 51 years and was sold at auction for $ 2.4 million.
Twenty-four hours after launching the project on Saturday, Scott-Jones said he had received hundreds of emails, including two that could be interesting leads.
Campaign organizers assured that if the project made it possible to find the machine, it would be returned to Paul McCartney.