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Paul McCartney’s Höfner Guitar Has Been Returned to Him More Than 50 Years After It Was Stolen
More than five decades after it was stolen, Paul McCartney’s beloved Hofner guitar has been returned to him, thanks to the good deed of the inheritor.
Paul’s favorite bass was stolen out of a van in 1972 but finally found its way back to the Beatles legend thanks to the Lost Bass Project, a fan-based search for the missing instrument. The thief apparently sold the violin-shaped Höfner instrument to a pub landlord, and it stayed in the family until film student Ruaidhri Guest shared a photograph of the stringed wonder on social media. “I think it’s wonderful that someone honest returned it,” says rock biographer Mark Bego.
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