It is a bass guitar from the German company Höfner, which McCartney used, among other things, when recording hits such as Love Me Do, She Loves You or All My Loving, and which he bought as a teenager in Hamburg in 1961 for 30 pounds, the server reported BBC.
Apparently, following a worldwide hunt, Paul McCartney’s first Höfner bass guitar, stolen from a van near where Wings were recording cuts for Red Rose Speedway on October 12, 1972, has been returned to Paul. If true, this is incredible news! https://t.co/vbyoOYF5CF
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But on the night of October 12, 1972, someone in the London district of Notting Hill stole it from the trunk of a car that was transporting tools and equipment. Since then, McCartney has been missing the bass guitar.
It has now been rediscovered thanks to the extensive Lost Bass Search project, which was launched by a German manufacturer last year at the request of the now 81-year-old McCartney.
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The organizers of the search action came across dozens of clues, one of which turned out to be a hot lead. According to the aforementioned testimony, the bass guitar was sold to an unnamed owner of a pub in the area of the British capital.
After that, she is said to have wandered further until she ended up in the attic of a terraced house in southern England. Its owner registered the search project, after which he realized what value he apparently had at home.
He turned to the organizers, who subsequently confirmed the authenticity of the instrument. The bass guitar is in good condition after decades and has the original case. But it will need some modifications before it can be used to play again.
“Following the launch of the Lost Bass Search last year, Paul’s 1961 Höfner 500/1 bass guitar, stolen in 1972, was returned. Its authenticity has been verified by the Höfner company, and Paul is incredibly grateful to everyone involved in the rediscovery of the instrument,” said the singer’s spokesperson.
No one has yet officially evaluated the returned instrument. But the search project team believes that it would be worth more than the most expensive guitar ever sold – the guitar of the American musician Kurt Cobain. It fetched six million dollars (CZK 142 million) at an auction four years ago.
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