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Why Paul McCartney’s violin bass was essential in creating his most playful bassline on Sgt. Pepper’s
The Beatles took Lovely Rita into Studio Two of Abbey Road on February 23rd, 1967 – McCartney’s faithful Höfner came along ...
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How Paul McCartney’s Lost Bass Guitar Was Found Five Decades Later
After becoming the band’s bassist, Mr. McCartney desperately needed a bass guitar and bought the instrument in a music store in Hamburg, Germany, in 1961. “I got my Violin Bass at the Steinway ...
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“Someone somewhere knows what happened to this bass and where it is now”: The Lost Bass Project aims to reunite Paul McCartney with his missing Höfner 500/1 violin bass
Höfner bass expert Nick Wass has ... with his long lost Höfner 500/1 violin bass – an instrument that has been missing since 1969. The bass guitar was first purchased by McCartney during ...
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Help! Global search launched for Paul McCartney’s missing violin bass
A global search is underway to find a bass guitar that once belonged to Paul McCartney and featured in several iconic early Beatles songs including “Twist And Shout,” “Love Me Do” and ...
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Paul McCartney’s bass guitar was missing for 51 years. Fans helped find it.
(McCartney bought the bass guitar in Hamburg in 1961 and used it ... Wass is “absolutely the world’s expert on violin Höfner basses, and he’s the expert on Paul’s bass,” according ...
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6 Famous Guitarists Who Lost Their Instruments (And Sometimes Got Them Back)
a woman named Cathy Guest returned Paul McCartney’s famous Höfner 500/1 violin-shaped electric bass guitar, which made headlines because the instrument had been missing for decades. Guest ...
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Paul McCartney reunited with beloved bass guitar at gig 50 years after it was stolen
BEATLES legend Sir Paul McCartney strummed his beloved bass guitar for the first time in ... the first being the Höfner violin bass which graced so many iconic Beatles records.