The Beatles took Lovely Rita into Studio Two of Abbey Road on February 23rd, 1967 – McCartney’s faithful Höfner came along ...

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 ...

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 ...

Paul McCartney‘s signature, violin-shaped Höfner bass guitar is back in his hands, decades after it was stolen in the 1970s. The Beatles rocker confirmed on Thursday that the instrument had ...

(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 ...

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 ...

Nick Wass, a semi-retired former marketing manager and electric guitar developer for Höfner who co-wrote the definitive book on the Höfner 500/1 Violin Bass, is spearheading the search.

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 ...

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.