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Phil Weller

“We’ve had to bring in some help”: Gibson hires the investigative journalists who helped find Paul McCartney’s lost Höfner violin bass to aid the hunt for the missing Back to the Future ES-345

Back to the Future.

Gibson’s Mark Agnesi has issued an update on the firm’s search for the missing Back to the Future guitar, and it’s drafting in the big guns to help bring the iconic ES-345 home.

The search, coinciding with the 40th anniversary of the film’s release, was announced in early June, and Gibson has since been inundated with tip-offs from the guitar community. That led to a first update, revealing a key feature of the guitar that will help narrow down the mammoth search.

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