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 ...

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 ...

In an alternate timeline maybe we would have had a different Beatles lineup, as Paul McCartney was initially reluctant to takeover the bass guitar duties. The original Beatles lineup also included ...

On Thursday, Paul McCartney and ... a very humble person.” McCartney not only reunited with former bandmates, but he also reunited with his original Hofner 500/1 bass guitar for the first ...

Paul McCartney brought the curtain down on his epic Got Back 2024 Tour in style, welcoming fellow Beatle Ringo Starr to the stage, and Rolling Stone Ronnie Wood, and finally fulfilling the dream ...

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 ...

The “most important bass in history,” lost for half a century, is back in the hands of its owner: Paul McCartney. Used in the Beatles’ first two albums and as a backup instrument until the ...

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 Thursday the instrument had been returned ...

Paul McCartney has been reunited with a famous stolen bass guitar after an initiative ... Raises $9.2M for Charity With the strap ratcheted right up to Paul’s pectoral muscles, the Beatles ...

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 ...

LONDON (AP) - Paul McCartney no longer gently weeps for his original bass guitar. A five-year search by the manufacturer of the instrument that was aided by a husband-and-wife team of journalists ...