You may have seen the BBC documentary about Paul McCartney’s original Hofner, how it was lost and - incredibly - found 51 years later. Now the sound engineer and driver who worked for the Beatle in the early 1970s has talked about the awful moment he realised it had gone missing.
The fellow in question is Ian Horne, a 79 year old who now lives in Gloucestershire. It was Horne who drove Wings during their first university tour in February 1972. In October that year, after a recording session he and another crew member parked the Wings van in Ladbroke Grove. Locked inside were two guitars, including the Hofner bass.
