“It just went off into the universe and it left us thinking, where did it go?” The hunt for Paul McCartney’s stolen Höfner bass was one of music’s biggest mysteries – and now they are making a documentary about it

Sir Paul McCartney rocks the London O2 crowd in 2024 and gives them a sly glance as he plays his iconic Hofner 500/1 bass.

The search for Paul McCartney’s missing Höfner 500/1 bass guitar is to be told in a new documentary.

Titled, The Beatle And The Bass, the film unpacks all the drama behind the search for McCartney’s ‘Violin’ bass, which went missing in 1972, reportedly stolen out of the back of a van in London (some reports say Ladbroke Grove, others Notting Hill) and was subsequently the subject of a global hunt led by investigative journalists Scott and Naomi Jones.