A brand new Beatles documentary that includes Sir Paul McCartney as a speaking head is on BBC Two this weekend, with different associated programmes.
New Paul McCartney Beatles documentary movie is on BBC Two this weekend (Picture: BBC/2025 MPL COMMUNICATIONS LTD)
Again in 1972, Sir Paul McCartney’s 1961 Höfner 500/1 bass guitar, the primary he ever purchased, was stolen.
This historic Beatles instrument will be heard on the recordings of Love Me Do, She Loves You and Twist and Shout.
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Following a 2018 marketing campaign launched by Höfner to find the bass, it was lastly recovered in 2024.
Now the long-lost instrument is the topic of a brand-new documentary, initially titled The Beatle and The Bass and now known as McCartney: The Hunt for the Misplaced Bass.
The Arthur Cary-directed movie, which airs on BBC Two this Saturday night, is about to characteristic Macca himself as one of many speaking heads.
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McCartney stated: “I believe something that is nicked, you need again, particularly if it has sentimental worth. It simply went off into the universe and it left us pondering, the place did it go? There should be a solution.”
Commissioned for BBC Arts, “the movie is a rock ‘n’ roll detective story that includes new interviews with Paul McCartney and plenty of others who’re personally related to the bass. From Paul’s brother Mike McCartney, good friend and artist Klaus Voormann, and roadies and collaborators similar to Elvis Costello, to the followers, specialists and journalists behind The Misplaced Bass Undertaking, their recollections are by turns humorous, shifting and shocking that assist inform a compelling story about fandom, creativity, love, loss, reminiscence and the transformative energy of music.”
McCartney: The Hunt for the Misplaced Bass is on BBC Two this Saturday at 8:45pm and will probably be adopted by Paul McCartney on the BBC and Sing the Beatles.
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