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Last year, Paul McCartney was reunited with his long-lost bass guitar 51 years after it disappeared. The saga has been turned into a new documentary titled The Beatle and the Bass Guitar.<\/p>\n
The new film is produced by Passion Pictures, which won a BAFTA this year with Sundance hit Super\/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story. It was commissioned by BBC Arts. McCartney will be featured in the film to discuss the long journey to being reunited with the instrument after it was stolen. \u201cI think anything that\u2019s nicked, you want back, especially if it has sentimental value. It just went off into the universe, and it left us thinking, \u2018Where did it go?\u2019 There must be an answer\u2026\u201d he said in a statement, via Variety<\/a>.<\/p>\n More from Rolling Stone<\/strong><\/p>\n Dubbed \u201cthe most important bass in history,\u201d McCartney first bought the H\u00f6fner in 1961 when he was 18. It was played on numerous iconic Beatles tracks. In 1972, however, the bass was stolen, and its whereabouts remained a mystery until a grassroots campaign, known as the Lost Bass Project, aimed to locate the bass and return it to McCartney. The Beatle confirmed the guitar had been returned to him last year.<\/p>\n \u201cFrom its beginnings, we knew The Beatle and the Bass was exactly the kind of distinctive, emotional and uplifting story that we love to tell,\u201d said Emily Jeal, head of feature documentaries at Passion Pictures.<\/p>\n There is no release date attached to the film at this time.<\/p>\n Best of Rolling Stone<\/strong><\/p>\n Sign up for RollingStone’s Newsletter<\/a>. For the latest news, follow us on Facebook<\/a>, Twitter<\/a>, and Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Yahoo is using AI to generate takeaways from this article. This means the info may not always match what’s in the article. Reporting mistakes helps us improve the experience.Generate Key Takeaways Last year, Paul McCartney was reunited with his long-lost bass guitar 51 years after it disappeared. The saga has been turned into a new […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1998442,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[349517,362581,362580,25403],"class_list":["post-1998441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-bass-guitar","tag-lost-bass","tag-passion-pictures","tag-paul-mccartney"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Paul-McCartneys-Stolen-Bass-Guitar-Saga-Will-Be-Told-in.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1998441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1998441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1998441\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1998442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1998441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1998441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1998441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}