Paul McCartney reunited with beloved bass used to record hits like ‘Love Me Do’ 51 years after it was stolen

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posted a pic of himself holding the legendary bass with a cheeky expression on social media. “To my friends and family, I inherited this item which has been returned to Paul McCartney.

Share the news,” he wrote on X Tuesday. Guest’s mother, Cathy, had read about the campaign to find the Beatle’s missing bass — dubbed the Lost Bass Project and spearheaded by Höfner executive Nick Wass — in September and realized she may have the legendary string instrument sitting in her home.

She contacted Wass, who authenticated the bass and found that it was in fact the bass played by McCartney that went missing five decades prior.After some fixing up, the long-lost bass was returned to the famous musician. “Following the launch of last year’s Lost Bass project, Paul’s 1961 Höfner 500/1 bass guitar, which was stolen in 1972, has been returned,” McCartney’s team said in a statement. “The guitar has been authenticated by Höfner and Paul is incredibly grateful to all those involved.”So how did the bass belonging to one of the most respected artists of all time end up collecting dust in a family’s attic?

Investigative journalists Scott and Naomi Jones, who were a part of the project, were able to trace its path and even identify its theif — who has not been publically named — thanks to some witness accounts.