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 ...

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?

"The guitar has been authenticated by Höfner and Paul is incredibly grateful to all those involved." McCartney bought the guitar, a left-handed Höfner 500/1 Violin Bass, in Hamburg, Germany ...

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 ...

Donation Options Search Search Search In this photo released by The Lost Bass Project, Nick Wass, an executive with Hoefner, inspects Paul McCartney’s 1961 violin-shaped Hoefner bass ...

Paul McCartney is “incredibly grateful” after ... “For about £30 ($37), I found this Höfner violin bass,” McCartney said previously, according to The Guardian. “And to me, because ...

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

McCartney’s 1961 Höfner 500/1 bass guitar has gotten back into his hands, NBC News reported. The bass was stolen in 1972 from the back of a van and had been believed to have been lost or destroyed.

And I saw this bass in the window, this violin-shaped Höfner ... obviously once we got to America we were quite famous - and Mr Rickenbacker said ‘Paul, we have a bass’. Oh, great! Freebie! Thank you ...

Paul McCartney performs during his ‘Got ... word spread last year about the search for the missing 1961 violin-shaped Hofner bass. McCartney’s website said Thursday that the instrument was ...