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The
guitar, dubbed the "most iconic lost musical instrument of all
time" by the team behind the search, The Lost Bass Project, was
used in Beatles singles including 1963 hits "She Loves You" and
"All My Loving."
"It's the bass that started Beatlemania," Nick Wass, one of the
founders of the search team, told Reuters.
"That's why it's important, it's the one that got it going."
A public appeal by the project last year was shared around the
world.
"As a result of the publicity someone living in a terraced house
in Hastings on the south coast of England contacted Paul
McCartney’s company and then returned the bass to them," the
Lost Bass Project said. The instrument was returned last year,
but this was only announced on Thursday.
The instrument was stolen from a van in the Notting Hill area of
London in October 1972, the search team said, citing information
received during their investigation.
"The guitar has been authenticated by Höfner and Paul is
incredibly grateful to all those involved," a spokesperson on
McCartney's website said.
Wass told Reuters the bass guitar was "somewhat damaged" with a
crack in the neck, a damaged bridge that would need replacing
and pickups that did not work anymore.
"But they can be sorted out, the neck can be repaired and we can
make it playable again," Wass said.
In 2015, a guitar stolen from the late John Lennon in the 1960s
sold for $2.41 million at an auction in Beverly Hills,
California. The person in possession of it said he originally
bought it without knowing its connection to Lennon.
(Reporting by Farouq Suleiman; editing by William James and
Sharon Singleton)
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