whose epic bass line for the 1969 smash-hit genre-busting, “Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)” challenged Motown’s master, James Jameson, the Beatles’ Paul McCartney, and the J.B.’s Bootsy ...

Rock Legends Join Forces in Liverpool for 'Glorious' Historic Performance originally appeared on Parade. At his first-ever ...

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The Cherry Red ES-345 has become a cultural icon since the film was released in 1985, but it hasn’t been since since ...

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

The early days of the Beatles boasted some distinct iconography: the Fab Four’s mop-top haircuts, fit leather boots, and the violin Höfner bass that Paul McCartney was playing all the way back ...

Paul McCartney had never played the instrument ... Eventually, McCartney bought a Höfner Violin bass guitar. While McCartney was initially reluctant to play bass, he took to it quickly and ...

Taking to his 1964 Rickenbacker 4001S, which had a fuller tone compared to the Höfner VIolin Bass, Paul McCartney is in peak form on Hey Bulldog. After four bars of John Lennon's bluesy piano ...

McCartney purchased the instrument—a violin-shaped Höfner 500/1 bass ... on violin Höfner basses” and “the expert on Paul’s bass,” as Scott tells the Washington Post’s Victoria ...

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 ...