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Fraser Lewry

"Paul is incredibly grateful to all those involved": Amateur sleuths have located Paul McCartney's long-lost Höfner bass 50 years after it was stolen

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A bass guitar Paul McCartney played on many classics by The Beatles has been found, more than 50 years after it went missing.  

The 1961 Höfner 500/1 bass guitar – which was used throughout the recording of the first two Beatles albums, Please Please Me and With The Beatles – was stolen in October 1972, taken from the back of a van parked overnight in Ladbroke Grove, West London.

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