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EXPLAINED: Hofner - The Real Truth

“They are officially on our investigative team right now”: They found Paul McCartney’s missing Höfner 500/1 violin bass – can the Lost Bass Project find Marty McFly’s Gibson ES-345 from Back To The Future?

Gibson puts investigative journalists Scott and Naomi Jones on the Lost To The Future case. Despite thousands of tips the trail of the guitar – missing since '85 – remains cold

MusicRadar

“We’ve had to bring in some help”: Gibson hires the investigative journalists who helped find Paul McCartney’s lost Höfner violin bass to aid the hunt for the missing Back to the Future ES-345

The guitar has been missing since filming wrapped 40 years ago. This shrewd hire might just turn the tide

Guitar World

“A lot of Slayer riffs aren’t really for bass players – there’s just too many notes”: Slayer’s Tom Araya charts his incredible 4-string journey

From starting on a Paul McCartney Höfner ripoff to pioneering some of the heaviest metal ever committed to tape, Tom Araya admits he's no bass virtuoso… but he “can play fast sometimes”

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‘Give me a Beatles scream’: inside Paul McCartney’s surprise New York show

A last-minute gig at the Bowery Ballroom saw the star play to a smaller crowd than usual, with stories interspersed among classic Beatles and Wings hits

The Guardian - US

“We’ve been looking for it for 50 years, and I got it back”: Paul McCartney’s long-lost Höfner returns to the stage for the first time in 50 years, as he enlists Ronnie Wood and Ringo Starr for an epic tour finale

Macca’s original Höfner violin bass had been missing for half a century, but recently marked its return to the stage in style

Guitar World

“Paul wants it to be fixed up, so he can play it… He was excited as a school boy”: Paul McCartney’s long-lost Höfner violin bass has been found after 50 years

Paul McCartney has been reunited with “the most important bass guitar in history”, which vanished after the Beatles split up – and was unearthed in an English attic

Guitar World

Long-lost bass guitar returned to Paul McCartney after more than 50 years

Violin-shaped Höfner vanished after Beatles split up but has resurfaced in pub in west London after global appeal

The Guardian - UK

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Paul McCartney on bass: "When we met Elvis, I was like, ‘You’re trying to learn bass, are you, son? Sit down, let me show you a few things’"

Classic 1994 interview: "Once I got over the fact that I was lumbered with it, I did get quite proud to be a bass player"

MusicRadar

Paul McCartney reveals how John Lennon continues to influence him

Macca, 81, admits he changes the lyrics if Lennon would think they are ‘too soppy’

The Independent UK

Paul McCartney: Worldwide search launched for missing Beatles 1961 Höfner guitar

Instrument, used on some of The Beatles’ most loved hits, disappeared in the Sixties

The Independent UK

Help! Beatles icon Paul McCartney’s missing bass guitar could be ‘worth £10m’

Hundreds contact appeal in 24 hours after hashtag #tracingthebass was set up to help track it down

Evening Standard

Search launched for Paul McCartney’s first Höfner bass guitar

German manufacturer’s The Lost Bass Project hunts for Beatle star’s ‘favourite’ instrument

The Guardian - UK

The strange history of Hugh Cornwell’s Höfner S7L – the ‘Razorwood’ electric guitar made famous by The Stranglers

How a little known and short-lived guitar from Höfner found its way into the hands of The Stranglers’ Hugh Cornwell around the time of the band’s hit Golden Brown

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