After 50 years, the bass stolen from Paul McCartney with whom he had played the first two Beatles albums has been found
A stolen Hofner bass that belonged to Paul McCartney and used to record the Beatles' first two albums has been found and returned 51 years later following a decades-long global hunt.
The guitar, called “the most iconic lost musical instrument of all time” by the research team, The Lost Bass Project, was used on Beatles singles, including the 1963 hits “She Loves You” and “ All My Loving”.
“It's the bass that started Beatlemania,” Nick Wass, one of the founders of the research team, told Reuters . “That's why it's important, that's what started the phenomenon.”
A public appeal launched by the project last year has been shared around the world. “Following the publicity, a person living in a terraced house in Hastings, on the south coast of England, contacted Paul McCartney's company and returned the bass,” the Lost Bass Project said. The instrument was returned last year, but the news was only made known on Thursday.
The instrument was stolen from a van in the Notting Hill area of London in October 1972, the research team said, citing information received during the investigation.
“The guitar has been authenticated by Höfner and Paul is incredibly grateful to everyone involved,” a spokesperson said on McCartney's website.
Wass told Reuters that the bass was "pretty damaged" with a crack in the neck, a damaged bridge that would need to be replaced and pickups that no longer worked.
“But they can be fixed, the neck can be fixed and we can make it playable again,” Wass said.
In 2015, a guitar stolen from the late John Lennon in the 1960s sold for $2.41 million at an auction in Beverly Hills, California. The person in possession of the guitar said he purchased it without knowing its connection to Lennon.
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