Paul McCartney, a former member of The Beatles, has found the bass guitar he lost for more than 50 years, which he used in the studio and on stage to play ‘Love Me Do’, ‘She Loves You’ and ‘Twist and Shout’. . The Höfner bass guitar was found in the family’s attic in Sussex, News.ro reports.

According to Paul McCartney’s website, the instrument, a violin-shaped Hofner, bought for £30 (equivalent to €35 at today’s exchange rate) in Hamburg, Germany in 1961, has been confirmed and “Paul is incredibly grateful to everyone involved” . in search

The Höfner guitar was found in the attic of a family in Sussex.

The bass was found “intact” but its original case “requires repair,” said The Lost Bass Project, which launched a 2018 appeal to find the instrument and whose campaign gained renewed media attention last fall.

Contrary to what the initiators of the project, journalist couple Scott and Naomi Jones, initially believed, the instrument did not disappear in 1969, but was stolen in 1972 from the back of a van in west London.

Among the 600 calls and messages received, one turned out to be crucial, Naomi Jones explained on BBC Radio 4 on Friday, allowing them to “put the puzzle together”.

After a request for information, a family living in a house in Sussex contacted the team, mentioning that they had an old bass guitar in the attic of the house.

It reached Sir Paul in December.

His spokesman said: “Following the launch of the Lost Bass Project last year, Paul’s 1961 Höfner 500/1 bass, which was stolen in 1972, has been returned.”

During their investigation, the team received information about the theft from the back of a van in Ladbroke Grove in October 1972.

They discovered the instrument had been sold to a local pub owner and then made its way to Sussex, where it was stored in a family’s attic.

The guitar has not been valued, but the Lost Bass team believe it will be worth more than the most expensive guitar ever sold – Kurt Cobain’s guitar, which sold for a record $6m (£4.9m) at auction in 2020 . John Lennon’s stolen guitar was sold for $2.4 million (£1.9 million) when it reappeared half a century later, writes the BBC.