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Get back to where you once belonged! Sir Paul McCartney is 'reunited' with treasured bass guitar he bought for £30 in 1961 after global search was launched for missing instrument
A global search was launched for the missing instrument - purchased by McCartney in 1961 for £30 - in 2023, some 54-years after it was last seen.
The guitar, a distinctively shaped Höfner bass, became synonymous with the versatile musician during his time with The Beatles and was bought while the then unknown band toured Hamburg's notorious club circuit. A year later the band released debut single Please, Please Me, a hit in the United Kingdom that would spark the Beatlemania phenomenon and change the lives of McCartney, John Lennon, George Harrison and Ringo Starr forever. Theories about what happened to the instrument vary, from rumours that a thief took the bass from a closet at Abbey Road, to a story that it went missing from the basement of the Beatles Savile Row offices.
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