A stolen Hofner bass guitar belonging to Paul McCartney and used to record The Beatles’ first two albums has been found and returned after 51 years following a global hunt.
The guitar, dubbed the “most iconic lost musical instrument of all time” by The Lost Bass Project, the team behind the search, was used on Beatles songs like the 1963 hits She Loves You and All My Loving.
“It’s the bass that started Beatlemania,” Nick Wass, one of the founders of the search team, told Reuters. “That’s why it’s important — it’s the one that got it going.”
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