A guitar that was lost by former Beatle Paul McCartney more than 50 years ago was found. He played a number of songs on it in the studio and on stage, including “Love Me Do,” “She Loves You,” and “Twist and Shout.”
Paul McCartney’s website indicated that the authenticity of this instrument, designed by the Hofner company and shaped like a violin, had been confirmed and purchased in Hamburg, Germany in 1961. The site confirmed that “Paul is very grateful to all those who participated in the search” for the instrument. The guitar was found “complete,” but it requires “repairs,” according to a statement by “The Lost Bass Project,” which in 2018 issued a call to inspect the instrument. Contrary to what the project initiators, journalist couple Scott and Naomi Jones, initially believed, the machine did not disappear in 1969, but was stolen in 1972 from a small truck in west London.
“The amazing thing is that when we started looking for the guitar, we thought it could be anywhere in the world, but in fact it was a few miles away,” Naomi Jones explained.
