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

Brian Ray has spent the last 23 years as a member of Paul McCartney’s band, playing bass and guitar — so who better to assess Macca’s musicianship? In the new issue of Guitar World magazine ...

Brian Ray has spent the last 23 years as a member of Paul McCartney’s band, playing bass and guitar — so who better to assess Macca’s musicianship? In the new issue of Guitar World magazine, Ray ...

The Beatles are one of the most universally loved bands in music history, with the iconic lineup of John Lennon, Paul ... bass. Eventually, McCartney bought a Höfner Violin bass guitar.

For the encore, McCartney and Starr did “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise)” and “Helter Skelter.” The two Beatles were last onstage together in 2019 in Los Angeles.

BEATLES legend Sir Paul ... McCartney produced a blizzard of instruments which he employed with consummate ease — his go-to bass, his “Magic Piano”, acoustic guitar, electric guitar ...

LONDON (AP) — Paul McCartney ... original bass guitar. A five-year search by the manufacturer of the instrument that was aided by a husband-and-wife team of journalists helped reunite The Beatles star ...

The prized instrument, stolen in 1972, has now been returned to the Beatle. From left, Ringo Starr (playing Ludwig drum kit) and Paul McCartney (playing a Hofner 500/1 violin bass guitar) of ...

The woman who found and returned Paul McCartney’s long-lost bass guitar is now hoping that she ... The now-recovered Höfner 500/1 Violin Bass is the one that can be heard on classic hits ...

Sir Paul McCartney was reunited with his stolen bass guitar this week after it was missing for 51 years (Credit: Getty Images) From a 17th-Century Italian violin stolen from Japan to Drake's lost ...

LONDON (AP) - Paul McCartney no longer gently weeps for his original bass guitar. A five-year ... Beatles star with the distinctive violin-shaped 1961 electric Höfner that went missing a half ...