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 ...

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 ...

Was the Höfner violin bass, which had accompanied Paul McCartney and the Beatles to worldwide fame, tucked away in a private collection? Had it been secretly shipped to a wealthy fan in Japan?

McCartney bought the guitar, a left-handed Höfner 500/1 Violin Bass, in Hamburg, Germany, in 1961. It was his primary instrument throughout the early years of The Beatles' runs at Hamburg's Top ...

“For about £30 ($37), I found this Höfner violin bass,” McCartney said previously, according to The Guardian. “And to me, because I was left-handed, it looked less daft because it was ...

For more on Macca’s relationship with the violin bass, check out our history of Paul McCartney and the Höfner 500/1 bass guitar.

Höfner bass expert Nick Wass has teamed up with two investigative journalists in an effort to reunite Paul McCartney with his long lost Höfner 500/1 violin bass – an instrument that has been ...

John Lennon himself had no doubt about the importance and impact of Paul's bass work ... Sign up here. The image of McCartney with the violin-shaped Hofner 500/1 bass is one that will forever be ...

BEATLES legend Sir Paul McCartney strummed his beloved bass ... the first being the Höfner violin bass which graced so many iconic Beatles records. Stolen more than 50 years ago, now returned ...

Min-Jin Kym’s Stradivarius violin Police recovering Min-Jin ... at Hatchlands Park in Surrey. Sir Paul McCartney’s Höfner bass Even after decades have passed, a lost instrument can turn ...