A new Beatles documentary featuring Sir Paul McCartney as a talking head has been announced.
Back in 1972, Sir Paul McCartney’s 1961 Höfner 500/1 bass guitar, the first he ever bought, was stolen.
This historic Beatles instrument can be heard on the recordings of Love Me Do, She Loves You and Twist and Shout.
Following a 2018 campaign launched by Höfner to locate the bass, it was finally recovered just last year.
Now the long-lost instrument is the subject of a brand new documentary called The Beatle and The Bass.
The Arthur Cary-directed film, which is yet to get a release date, is set to feature Macca himself as one of the talking heads.
The new documentary is called The Beatle and the Bass (Image: GETTY)
Quoted in the annoucement, McCartney said: “I think anything that’s nicked, you want back, especially if it has sentimental value. It just went off into the universe and it left us thinking, where did it go? There must be an answer.”
Commissioned for BBC Arts, “the film is a rock ‘n’ roll detective story featuring new interviews with Paul McCartney and many others who are personally connected to the bass. From Paul’s brother Mike McCartney, friend and artist Klaus Voormann, and roadies and collaborators such as Elvis Costello, to the fans, experts and journalists behind The Lost Bass Project, their memories are by turns funny, moving and surprising that help tell a compelling story about fandom, creativity, love, loss, memory and the transformative power of music.”
