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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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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 and his stolen bass come together after more than 50 years: ‘Grateful’
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 ...
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3 lifelong Beatles fans seek to find missing Paul McCartney guitar and solve "greatest mystery in rock and roll"
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.
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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 ...