Close to 70 years after German instrument company Höfner started selling an electric bass that looked like a violin, the company has filed for bankruptcy. The news has hit Paul McCartney, who has made ...

Paul McCartney shared an emotional message after Höfner, the guitar brand behind his iconic bass, filed for bankruptcy. Fans are urging him to save the company.

Session bassist Will Lee has been singing even longer than he has been playing bass guitar. Still, the 1998 formation of the New York City Beatles cover band the Fab Faux presented Lee with a new ...

Brian Ray has spent the last 23 years as a member of Paul McCartney’s band, playing bass and guitar — so who better to assess Macca’s musicianship? In the new issue of Guitar World magazine, Ray ...

The epic story behind Paul McCartney’s stolen bass guitar, which was returned to him in 2024 after 51 years, will be told in a new feature-length documentary directed by Arthur Cary (“Surviving 9/11,” ...

Ever since the early Beatles days, Paul McCartney's signature instrument has been the Höfner 500/1 violin bass guitar. In 1961, an 18-year-old McCartney bought the instrument in Hamburg for £30. That ...

According to ScreenDaily.com, McCartney will lend his voice to Paul McKenzie, a walrus who also happens to be a left-handed bassist, like the Beatles legend himself, and who plays in a band called The ...

*Well this is something that no doubt made an old man feel good. During his concert in Buenes Aires, Argentina, legendary Paul McCartney managed to invite a young girl up onstage, thinking she wanted ...

Passion Pictures is producing a feature-length documentary for BBC Arts about the story behind Paul McCartney’s original Höfner bass guitar, with Fremantle handling global distribution. Directed by ...