“No one has seen this guitar since 1985, and we need to find it”: Gibson teams up with Back To The Future cast to launch global hunt for Marty McFly’s lost ES-345

A still from Back to the Future's Enchantment Under the Sea Dance where Marty McFly performs Johnny B. Goode on a red Gibson ES-345.

As electric guitars go, the Cherry Red Gibson ES-345 that Michael J Fox’s Marty McFly played in Back To The Future is Ark of the Covenant material. It is one of the great pop-cultural totems of the ‘80s, and it has been missing ever since the film wrapped. Gibson has launched a global campaign to find it.

The campaign is backed by the stars of the movie. Fox, Christopher Lloyd (Dr Emmett Brown), Lea Thompson (Lorraine Baines-McFly) and Harry Waters Jr (Marvin Berry) are all onboard, so too is Huey Lewis, who gave the movie its number one hit, The Power Of Love.