Last night it was paying off some more of that £30. McCartney looks a little surprised that it worked when he plugged it in (a bit of theatre; he knows it’s going to be okay), and it had lost ...

Photo: Marc Millman All roads lead to “The End,” and last night, Sir. Paul McCartney put on a momentous finale during the closing show of his extensive Got Back tour at London’s O2 Arena.

When Paul McCartney decided to revisit his iconic Höfner bass in the late 1980s, he wasn’t playing the violin bass that had spent so many nights in the dank, smoky depths of the Cavern Club in ...

Paul's Hofner bass was a fixture of The Beatles' recording sessions and live shows. It was stolen from the back of a van in London in 1972 but an appeal to find it was launched by The Lost Bass ...

Making the show even more special, McCartney reintroduced his famous original Hofner bass, playing the violin-shaped instrument for the first time in concert in decades. Sir Paul began playing the ...

The original Beatles lineup also included Stuart Sutcliffe on bass and Paul Best on drums. Ringo Starr would join in 1962 after Best’s departure. In 1961, before the band returned to Hamburg (at ...

Though McCartney didn't achieve a satisfactory lead vocal overdub until three months later, there are audible clues on the final mix that he was singing while he recorded his bass track. Notice ...

Bars 13 (00:33) and 16 (00:42) sound significantly different, even though the notes are identical. Had McCartney played the whole song staccato, by this point it might have begun to grow tiresome.