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Hey, guys. - Alright, it's going.

OK.

Right.

The lost bass! Yay.

It's a story. - It is a story.

You know, it's quite a thing, yeah.

And this being my first bass

that I'd got in Hamburg...

all those years ago.

Yeah, I had an attachment to it, you know.

It just went off

into the universe, you know? It was like...

Where did it go? There must be an answer, you know.

Somebody's got it.

♪ Oh, darling ♪

♪ Please believe me ♪

♪ I'll never do you no harm ♪

♪ Believe me when I tell you ♪

♪ I'll never do you no harm ♪

♪ Oh, darling ♪

♪ If you leave me ♪

♪ I'll never make it alone ♪

♪ Believe me when I beg you (Woo!) ♪

♪ Don't ever leave me alone ♪

♪ When you told me ♪

♪ You didn't need me anymore ♪

♪ Well, you know I nearly broke down and cried ♪

♪ When you told me ♪

♪ You didn't need me anymore ♪

♪ Well, you know I nearly fell down and died ♪

Fantastic, isn't it?

And, as you see, if you think what's been written in them...

behind them doors there...

This was one of the main places where they used to sit and write songs.

They'd sneak, bunk off school, come in here, eat some fried eggs.

There's a thing about fried eggs. I don't know why.

You go to Hunter Davies' story, they're all eating fried eggs.

There must've been a...

Just after the war, they must've just loved fried eggs...

This is where we used to live.

Our humble abode in Forthlin Road, Allerton, Liverpool.

And this is where we used to live as a little family.

And there's some people out there.

What are they doing there?

That's why we left.

Lots of lovely memories.

Not enough of me mum.

And the smells that would've come from the kitchen

when she did Sunday dinners.

She'd do off-cuts of lamb or beef

and sneak 'em in to us, her little boys.

"Shh, don't tell your dad, shh."

See, whenever I talk about my mum

it's always dangerous

cos this is where she went from.

This is our kid's little room.

Yeah, I...

stopped them going in there for many years

because it was too important to me and my brother.

I was 12, my brother was 14

and she died of cancer.

When you're 12 or 14, you don't understand.

You have to get on with life. You have to survive.

And because Dad had been in his own band

at the back of his mind

he always thought, well, that was a way out.

And so he bought me a banjo

and my brother a guitar, a Spanish guitar.

I took that out the back window.

Our kid was sitting in the back garden

lost, just...

miles away with his guitar.

My brother was 14 in that photograph.

Beatlemania came six years later.

If I'm in a not very good mood

a great thing to do is just take a guitar

cos, you think about it, you sort of hold it to you, a guitar.

And it's kind of a comforting thing to do.

You go off into a little room somewhere, you know, on your own

and tell the guitar your troubles, kinda thing.

It's like a cheap psychiatrist, really.

And it turns round and the guitar sort of sends it back to you

and it comes back as a song somehow.

Well, it started in Hamburg.

You had gangsters... pimps...

You had prostitutes.

You had all you could imagine.

Hamburg is echoing to the invasion

from the latest beat groups in Britain who've taken over.

I heard the music through a window, a cellar window.

I just wanted to see that rock 'n' roll music.

The next band came on and that was The Beatles.

Paul came up and I think he was the one to talk to the audience first

because he could speak German.

"Hello! Wie geht us?"

"Guten Tag."

It was really sweet.

I mean, they were young kids. George was 17, you know.

And I was a little older then.

We became friends, and they came to the house.

They got great food

put them in a bathtub

because they didn't have any mother or father to look after them.

There was a friendship. A friendship grew up, you know.

Oh, danke schoen.

Hey, Klaus, Paul here.

And trying to reach you so we can have a nice telephone conversation.

So, I'll try again. Lots of love, bye-bye.

Hm.

He is still that same little Paul he was when he was 19 years old.

It's the same guy.

I'm a graphic designer.

I had the job to do the cover on Revolver

and a bass player.

But now I can't play any guitar chords with a cramp, this cramp.

Hand can't do a fist.

Can't do a fist, you know.

Doesn't work, doesn't work.

Luckily enough, I can still hold my pencil.

I'm going to do drawings of the story of the bass.

I decided to start with the Top Ten.

That's the first time I actually saw the bass.

Well, let's...

So what do you want to talk about?

We wanna talk about you as a bass player, really.

So, I've got Paul's guitar.

And next to it, Stuart Sutcliffe's guitar.

Like that.

My bass guitar days

go back to when Stuart was the bass player.

Stu had fallen in love with this girl called Astrid.

Stu decided he was gonna stay in Hamburg

so that meant we didn't have a bass player.

And John and George thought, I'm not doing it.

So that left me.

Eventually then, I found a nice little shop

in the centre of Hamburg

and I saw this bass in the window.

The violin-shaped bass, the Höfner.

I don't think it was very expensive, something like about 30 quid.

Then once I got my own bass, then I was the bass player.

I remember it was the last day

the band played in the Top Ten Club.

And Stuart, it was his last night of playing.

And we were sitting outside, the sun was shining.

I think it was Sunday morning.

And we were all sitting there, being all pretty stoned.

Stoned meaning... pills and stuff.

Talking, talking, talking.

John was sitting next to me

and I said, well, Stuart isn't playing, I could play the bass.

And he said, "Oh, sorry, Klaus, Paul already bought the bass.

He's gonna be the next bass player."

Could've been your moment, Klaus.

You could've become Beatle number five.

Yeah, alright.

I don't know. Anyway, I don't even want to think about it!

I lived in Hamburg through my brother's letters.

Then suddenly, he came back one day and he had that Höfner.

It's so unique.

We were the roadies.

I probably held that bloody thing.

And then our kid got a Ford classic.

Looked cool.

And their music, then...

you know, going to The Cavern.

The difference was unbelievable.

It was like, whew...

Wow, what happened?

We knew we were going somewhere. We always felt that we had something.

You put John...

Lennon, you know, he's a very witty cat...

with me, who could hold his own

with George, who was, like, spectacular

and then finish it all up with Ringo.

So we had a kind of magic.

♪ Some other guy now ♪

♪ Has taken away my sweet desire, oh now ♪

♪ Some other guy now ♪

♪ I just don't want to hold my hand, oh now ♪

♪ I'm a lonely one ♪

♪ As lonely as I can feel, alright ♪

♪ Some other guy... ♪

I'm the least technical person you will meet.

So, I don't know what I do.

I just play with it.

It's a lovely instrument to play, and it's kind of easy to play.

And so I got... I got very used to it and loved it.

♪ Close your eyes and I'll kiss you ♪

♪ Tomorrow, I'll miss you ♪

♪ Remember I'll always be true ♪

This Höfner bass really suited Paul's style of playing.

It's very rhythmical but at the same time, it's very, very melodic.

♪ All my loving to you ♪

♪ I'll pretend that I'm kissing ♪

♪ The lips I am missing... ♪

You can hear lots of songs that the songs are very, very simple

and the bass does more movement than any other instrument.

♪ I'll write home every day ♪

♪ And I'll send all my loving to you ♪

I'm a big fan of James Jamerson, who was the Motown bass player.

Cos normally, bass is...

But he was...

I was going, wow, that's a great way to use the bass.

♪ All my loving... ♪

That set me free.

I was like, great. OK, I can make up melodies.

So as the guys were doing the main song

I would just try and put something imaginative behind it.

And it was a great feeling.

I mean, I still remember it, the moment, bingo!

♪ I will send to you ♪

♪ Got a good reason ♪

First time I was aware of The Beatles, I would've been about nine years old.

My clear memory of that is seeing them on the six o'clock television news

and all the girls were screaming outside the cinemas and that kinda thing.

And they were playing electric guitars

and let's face it, you know, electric guitars are so sexy.

My mother would've thought it not the right thing to have an electric guitar.

That was for bad boys, you know.

Years later, I was the electric guitar manager with Höfner

a small German guitar company.

Subsequently, I met Paul McCartney.

It was at his studio down south in England.

He just walked in and said, "Oh hello, you're Mr Höfner.

Do you know where my old Höfner's gone?"

And I knew what he meant straight away. "My old Höfner", he meant the '61 bass.

We'd been looking for my old bass for years.

But that's what happened with Nick.

I started talking about it and just saying, yeah, we're looking for it.

I don't know if we'll ever find it.

Of course, I had to say to him, you know, I've got no idea where it's gone.

It's all a bit of a mystery.

It's the most important bass of any bass ever anywhere.

In terms of anybody actually totally associated with an instrument

yeah, McCartney and the Höfner bass.

There's just something in the soul of the two of them.

Here's the old Höfner factory down in Bavaria.

It's still standing.

Poor old place.

And it was here in these premises

that they built the bass, all those years ago.

That moment.

That turn in history.

You almost had to be there, really, to feel the electricity in the air.

I was probably bored on a wet Wednesday

when I designed and put up the web page on the Höfner website

with the usual sort of things, "If you've got any information, email us."

And I think Cathy came up with the name

"trace the bass", with the hashtag on the front.

I think it was you, was it? - It was me, yes.

There you are. Genius. - It's catchy.

Very catchy. - It's good.

Genius, you see, "trace the bass".

The whole of our marriage, you know, for the last 20-odd years

Cathy's just supported me with one lunatic scheme after another.

And she used to be a bank manager, you see, so she's good at filing stuff.

We talked about it endlessly. - Endlessly, yeah.

I don't think there was one purpose in searching for the bass.

There was a hundred million fans out there

who I knew would be thrilled to bits to know that this thing had come back.

So it was for everybody, not just Paul.

♪ You know you should be glad ♪

♪ Woo! ♪

♪ She loves you, yeah, yeah, yeah ♪

I was in Liverpool

so I could go every game that I could afford to go to.

27,000 people used to be on the Kop.

And very emotional sound.

♪ Pride can hurt you too ♪

Among the many things I memorised before I picked up an instrument

were the harmony parts.

I can't sing in Paul's register now but I could then, when I was a kid.

♪ And you know you should be glad ♪

♪ Woo! ♪

And we would cut out cardboard likenesses of the guitars we liked

and draw the controls on them.

And then mime alone with records.

It was a perfect apprenticeship for being on Top of the Pops.

You know! Pretending to play.

The hardest thing was to make a Höfner bass

because you needed a longer piece of cardboard for the neck.

This is, like, when I'm nine or something, you know.

♪ Woo! ♪

♪ She loves you, yeah, yeah, yeah ♪

♪ She loves you, yeah, yeah, yeah ♪

The thing about the Höfner is it's very lightweight, which is great.

It makes it easier to play.

So that was the one on all the early Beatles records.

It was a very rich period for music, for us

and particularly for making records.

♪ Yeah, yeah, yeah ♪

♪ Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah... ♪

That bass was used an enormous amount

and it started to fall to bits.

And we don't know when, again, because all the records are long gone.

They ordered another Höfner bass.

We think it gets delivered into his hand on October 4th, 1963.

They did a gig on an old TV programme called Ready Steady Go.

And there's pictures of him at rehearsal

and pictures of him actually doing the performance to camera

and both basses are there.

He's got the '61 from Hamburg.

It has two pickups close together.

And he's got this new one.

They've moved this pickup down to near the bridge.

And in some of the shots, he's got the new one

and he's holding it up but it hasn't even got a strap on it.

So we're kinda concluding that it arrived that very day.

And the '61 gets put on backup duties, poor thing.

Within a couple of months of that, the February

they're playing in front of 70 million people in the USA.

♪ I read the news today, oh boy ♪

♪ About a lucky man who made the grade ♪

Meanwhile, the '61 bass is away being repaired.

♪ But I just had to look... ♪

Our roadie, Mal, took it off and brought it back

like new, but with a completely different paint job on it.

When it returned, it had been completely resprayed.

It came back with what's now called a three-part sunburst

which is more or less black, red, yellow.

It's very distinctive when you look at this bass now.

For me, the whole charm of the instrument was gone.

I don't know how Paul feels about it.

I think he was a bit pissed off too.

♪ Woke up, fell out of bed ♪

♪ Dragged a comb across my head ♪

♪ Found my way downstairs and drank a cup ♪

♪ And looking up, I noticed I was late ♪

♪ Found my coat and grabbed my hat ♪

♪ Made the bus in seconds flat ♪

♪ Found my way upstairs and had a smoke ♪

♪ And somebody spoke and I went into a dream ♪

I mean, from a look point of view, I think the '63 is nicer

maybe even better.

Better pickups, better sound, louder, whatever.

He very singularly played that '63 bass then continuously

and you never see him playing the '61.

You know, he didn't swap and change between the two or anything.

They went back to America in 1965.

The '61 is being used as the backup but not played.

At Shea Stadium, if you look really careful

you see Ringo up on the drum riser

and just down below Ringo on the back of the amp, there's the bass.

You have to look very eagle-eyed but it's there.

What happened to it after that is a mystery.

It's just luck and a lot of peering at grainy old black and white pictures.

The only time you see it again

you have to wait till a quick shot of it by the coffee table

on the Let It Be sessions

and then we don't see it anymore.

It's just not around.

♪ Get back ♪

♪ Get back ♪

♪ Get back to where you once ♪

♪ Get back ♪

The event is so momentous that historians may one day

view it as a landmark in the decline of the British Empire.

The Beatles are breaking up.

When they split up, I mean, all the rancour starts.

The lawyers are in and it was chaotic.

There were guitars here, there were guitars there

and nobody was really taking care of stuff.

This is the remarkable thing.

It's from the end of The Beatles

nobody had ever seen this bass. It just wasn't there anymore.

I was never able to establish any firm basis as to when it disappeared.

I put my hand up absolutely and say

I started this from nowhere, not knowing how to do it.

So, I was kind of a bit handicapped, I suppose

and as green as a cabbage as well.

It got to the point where it needed somebody better than me

to start poking about.

It was June 2022

when I was watching Paul McCartney headline at Glastonbury.

But there was one moment in the show where the stage just went black

apart from one light just picking out Paul's Höfner bass.

And it just caught the varnish and the wood and everything.

It was almost like shining like gold for this split second, and I thought

is that the original Höfner bass?

And so I googled it and saw that it wasn't.

The original bass that he'd got in 1961 was lost.

And I instantly started googling to see and find out more about that story.

But in terms of an investigation and then thinking, I want to find this thing

I thought, well, if no one else is doing that

and that guitar is so important, we need to do it.

Who do you mean by "we"?

Me and my wife, we work together.

And we convinced ourselves that

we may not find the bass, but we'd find stories about the bass.

We'd find what the bass meant to people.

You know, that sort of Beatlemania fan thing.

By July 2023

I'd seen that Höfner over in Bavaria had run a search

and I was really curious to find out what they know.

So I wrote this very polite email

to sort of introduce myself, thinking he was German

and being conscious of the sort of English language that I was using.

And then within 24 hours, I realised that Nick was from London

and he was on the end of the phone and we were talking like old mates.

And I thought, oh my God, these are exactly the people

I've been looking for, for a long time.

We got together and I said, Scott, look, I've got a lot of emails

and I passed him the lot over

for him to read and get a sense of what we were dealing with there.

All of these leads that came in

you knew it was people that had lived with this story for a long, long time.

It's just that it was wrong.

"A man claiming he had one of Paul's guitar

walked into a pawn shop in Las Vegas

called the Gold and Silver Pawn Shop to sell it.

There's a television programme called The Pawn Stars

where it was aired, hope it helps."

"I definitely saw the bass in an auction of music equipment

in the mid '80s in London.

It sold for £100 to a music rental studio company."

"I've heard that the bass is in Japan in the possession of a Japanese banker.

This information was given to me by a guy that knows the Beatles

and the Beatles gear website well."

I had this vision of...

I used to say to people, I know what's happened.

Some German guy

rich German guy, has nicked it

and he's got a big castle in the Bavarian mountains.

And he invites you up and then after a few drinks

he says, "Come, I show you something special."

And there over the mantlepiece is hanging my bass.

So, it's a treasure hunt but also, people love The Beatles

and love Paul McCartney, and wanted to help.

♪ Took me so long to find out ♪

♪ And I found out ♪

♪ She's a big teaser ♪

♪ She took me half the way there ♪

I've always admired Paul McCartney as a bass player.

He made the bass guitar cool.

Beatles fans know that the bass has disappeared

and no one knows where it's gone.

So, it'd be amazing if somebody ever did find it

cos that's history, isn't it?

It's history.

♪ Day tripper ♪

♪ Day tripper, yeah ♪

Ever since I can remember, I've been a Beatles fan.

There's only ever been one band for me, I think.

First time I ever opened the Sergeant Pepper's

and you open it up, and they've all got moustaches.

And I thought, when I get older, I'm gonna have a moustache.

So...

I bought it second-hand, only paid £80 for it

which is not much more than Paul paid for his probably.

Can you play anything on it?

A little bit of Day Tripper, but...

Yeah, only a little bit.

I need a plectrum!

I've always wanted to play guitar. I tried for years.

And I thought it might be easier to play bass

cos there's only four strings.

Here's a Vox.

Vox. Have to have a Vox, don't you, if you have a Beatles bass?

Oh, no. After all that, mate, it's broken.

Cut.

It works.

Lordy...

That's it.

Got there in the end. - Yeah, practice makes perfect, doesn't it?

♪ One way ticket, yeah ♪

♪ It took me so long to find out ♪

♪ And I found out ♪

School drop-off time, innit?

I work for the ambulance service. I've been doing it 23 years now.

So I'm on the patient transport side, so it's all non-emergency.

There's a guy, Steve, I work with, he's a lovely guy

known him for two, three years.

We always have a good laugh when we're crewing up together.

We bounce off each other quite nicely.

I'm always looking online for guitars and things

and I think I just, might have been by accident

went on to the Höfner website

saw that Nick Wass was looking for it

and that was like, yeah, the holy grail for me.

It's like finding the bible, trying to find Paul McCartney's bass.

You know, if you're a fan that's like, wow.

Well, I was with Steve one day

and I said, well, I've still got a bass that's a bit like Paul McCartney's

and he just sort of said, I think I know where that is, you know.

And I said, you're joking, aren't you?

So, I just said to him, I said

I've got an idea where that might be, you know?

And he sort of looked at me, and I went...

right, I'm gonna tell you something.

I don't know if it's right or proper but I'm gonna tell you something.

It's only a story I've heard.

He said, where? I said, it don't matter where, but...

I think it was nicked from a house in London.

So, I said to Steve, can I tell the story

and can I tell Nick what little bit you've told me?

I said, don't put my name on it.

No, he said, what we'll do, he said, I'll email it in

and say it's a story that someone told us on the back of the ambulance.

A patient.

I mean, the emails were quite mixed, if I'm honest.

One of them in particular was from these two guys

who are a crew on an ambulance.

And they told me this bullshit story

about having a client in the back of the ambulance, as they described it.

- A patient? - Yeah...

I think they call it "client" now, don't they?

Who'd given them some story about the fact that the bass had been stolen

and that it had been given to a guy in a pub

up at Ladbroke Grove, London.

And I thought, yeah, bit more bullshit

but I wrote a polite reply.

"That sounds like a really good book, Tales From the Back of an Ambulance."

And I left it there.

I had a call from the news editor at The Telegraph

looking for stories

and I said, look, we're looking for Paul McCartney's lost bass.

And the minute I said it, Ben commissioned the story on the spot.

The story in The Telegraph went live on the 2nd September.

It was a Saturday.

It was around about four o'clock, online.

Within minutes, the BBC were in touch

saying they wanted us on BBC Breakfast.

Well, I'm delighted to say we're joined now by Nick Wass

who is a Höfner and lost bass expert

and he's provided Paul McCartney with many of his iconic instruments...

Lots of interviews and radio station interviews

day and night.

I realised why being famous must be absolutely awful.

The difference with the lost bass is Paul McCartney had it refinished in 1964

and the two pickups are now mounted in a big black piece of wood here

but I think you've shown your audience some pictures of what we're after.

But this is it, yeah. - And the thing is

it is distinctive, and it should be identifiable.

But of course, it may have been destroyed somewhere along the line.

It may have just been chucked away.

It could've been taken by someone at the Apple offices.

We just don't know, do we? - No, we don't know.

This is the problem.

It was put away, presumably after they'd finished filming Get Back.

And after that, nobody has any clear idea of what happened

where it was actually stored...

...who might have been there. We're just not clear about that.

In the first 24 hours, we must have had more than a dozen

major newspapers and radio and TV stations on

NBC in America and The New York Times

and Le Monde, Spiegel in Germany.

It just went on and on, and then TV channels that we'd never ever heard of

were getting in touch, from Brazil and other places.

We thought that we'd almost plugged into that spirit of The Beatles.

You know, we thought that we had connected

with that positive vibe

around peace and love and the band, and what the music meant to people.

We got 600 emails in the first 48 hours.

And the emails were just landing and landing and landing.

That's when the journalists in us took over

and we started to pick out what could be really important.

♪ I heard the news today, oh boy ♪

♪ About a lucky man who made the grade ♪

When we read Ian Horne's email

we knew instantly that we had to speak to Ian.

♪ I just had to laugh ♪

And Ian's lead was the only lead that said

I know Paul McCartney. - Yeah.

And it was the only lead that said, I worked for Paul McCartney.

After he broke up with The Beatles, we met up.

I think Paul was definitely getting back in the saddle, I call it.

Which was a big step because I think he hid away for a while.

Yeah, you know, it was very depressing.

Cos you were breaking from your lifelong friends.

You weren't going to see them again.

It was depressing.

And not knowing whether I was going to continue in music.

Certainly, I wasn't having a good time. It wasn't working.

Whereas, Linda had sort of said, you know

you've just gotta get it together and we gotta do something.

So, we ended up forming Wings.

I knew that if I

kept playing Beatles songs, which I knew people wanted

then I would become a Beatles tribute band.

And I thought maybe that's not the greatest look.

He was experimenting with things he hadn't done before.

Had a Yamaha bass, a Fender bass.

He went through all the basses he'd seen people are playing, you know.

♪ And all the people ♪

♪ Say that all people must be free ♪

♪ But meanwhile, back in Ireland ♪

♪ There's a man who looks like me ♪

We went on the road. Boy, did we go on the road.

Tell us about it. - I mean...

Well, cos the thing is, normally you go on the road

at least you book hotels.

Anyone books hotels.

But we decided to really just busk the whole thing.

So, we had a Tranny and we just headed off up the motorway.

We had the kids, a couple of dogs, the whole group, all our instruments.

There was a U-Haul following behind with the roadies.

And we literally turned up at universities and stuff.

We turned up at Nottingham University, was the first one.

And we said... in fact, we didn't, I didn't say anything.

I stayed in the van.

One of the lads, Ian Horne, actually went in.

"I got Paul McCartney out in the van, d'you want him on lunchtime tomorrow?"

Really? I need to come out of the van to sort of check.

Oh yeah! Yeah, we'll have him.

♪ Give Ireland back to the Irish ♪

♪ Make Ireland Irish today ♪

He was loving it, being back in the saddle.

He never played the Höfner, as far as I know.

It was around.

Sort of lugging it around from place to place?

Yeah, maybe that was more me than him.

I mean, if he asked for it, I've got it.

We'd just finished the university tour

and we were recording an album called Red Rose Speedway.

And on this particular day, we'd been in the studio.

We didn't leave till quite late, so we drove back to Trevor's.

Yeah, Trevor's my brother-in-law.

He was my assistant.

Though he had a truck full of gear

which we had the Höfner bass, acoustic guitars, some amplifiers.

I couldn't park at Trevor's, cos opposite Trevor's house was a school

so it was restricted parking.

Just went up the road a bit, turn right

and there's a T-junction there, which is Cambridge Gardens.

There was a parking place right on the edge, so I thought I'd put it there

with the back of the truck visible to everybody.

Basically, it had a big heavy-duty padlock on the back.

It was a roller shutter on the back.

So I felt fairly secure.

I walked back to Trevor's and we went to sleep.

And then of course in the morning, the nightmare began.

We could see that the padlock was off

and I went, oh, God... you know, cold sweat.

So I've thrown the roller door up

and immediately notice there's stuff missing, you know.

So there's a couple of amplifiers, two guitars, including the Höfner bass.

I was beside myself with worry

and anger and pain.

Right opposite where the truck is

so the back of the truck's there, is 100 Cambridge Gardens.

At the time, it seemed kosher

but all these hippies and people that lived around Lancaster Road

and Cambridge Gardens in these squat houses, there's a lot of musicians.

You know, there's obviously thieves amongst them.

Trevor thought that this guy Dik Mik was a bit iffy, you know.

- Why? - I don't know why really.

He flagged him up. I didn't flag anyone.

I did feel it was one of that mob because they all knew we worked for Paul.

And so we sort of got tooled up in case it got nasty.

So, wait, hang on. In case what got nasty?

I decided we go and check this guy out

so we could end the thing there.

So we went in there, quite threatening behaviour.

Dik Mik, who's still in bed, he was shitting himself.

We looked around, no stuff.

And eventually, you know, we had to go to Paul and tell him the news.

Knock on the door, and he comes to the door.

The truck's been broken into.

The Höfner bass has been stolen and a few other things.

And I took a deep breath, stood there thinking

what's gonna come back at me?

And he was absolutely amazing.

He just turned around and said, "It's alright, Ian, I've got another one."

I had a feeling in me, did he think I've done it?

So I rung the police

and the police didn't seem that bothered.

I think all the papers used to have contacts in the police.

Their friend's on the news desk, maybe they'd get a small payment.

That's the way it used to work.

So, in this particular case, The Standard had got a tip-off

that this had happened, but they didn't know very much about it

or even if it was true.

Obviously, the best person to confirm whether

a guitar of his had been stolen, would be him.

I set off for his house, and I didn't feel very comfortable about doing this.

I didn't think that this was the kind of journalism I really wanted to do.

I thought that if he did come out, he's gonna tell us to fuck off.

Probably an hour passed, standing around in the road

chatting to the photographer.

Suddenly, without any warning, a wooden gate swung open

and there was Paul.

I can clearly remember his first words were

"What do you want, boys?"

And the first question I think I asked him

first of all, to confirm that the guitar had been taken

and he said it had, so that confirmed the story.

And he confirmed that it was the original one

that he'd bought back in Hamburg

which I knew about because I followed the Beatles.

So, then I suddenly realised that I was actually

in the middle of a very big story

the most famous or iconic instrument of that era

had been stolen, and I was talking to the guy who owned it.

And he was quite happy to chat about it.

He'd pose for pictures for the photographer

and I think we probably spoke for maybe four or five minutes

and at that stage, our presence is starting to get noticed.

A small crowd of people are starting to gather

so he politely thanked us

and closed the gate and went back into the house.

This was the first time I had met a Beatle.

Beatles music has enriched my life enormously and I just kind of felt

maybe this sounds a little bit sycophantic

but I just really felt that I'd have liked to have said

can I just thank you for everything you've done?

I think your music's great.

It's something which will stay with me forever.

Just something like that.

Just a thank you, I think that would've been nice.

But I was in a rush and I never got to do that.

Paul had given a quote to a newspaper at the time

and so we thought that you would remember that

or you'd remember, you know, it was his favourite bass.

It had been stolen.

Nick was scratching his head as to why he hadn't been told

that that information hadn't been passed on.

I have to presume that he'd forgotten.

I mean, this is a guy who's actually done quite a lot, hasn't he?

He's been a few places and around, so

it may well have just not registered with him. I don't know.

There has been a report recently that you have said

that you might get back with The Beatles. Is this true?

No, I wouldn't think so.

I don't think any of us fancy it, tell you the truth.

Perhaps the bass wasn't as important to Paul in 1972

as it was to him when he asked Nick to start the search.

I think in a way, The Beatles have done it, you know?

Beatles started from nothing and got everywhere.

The thing is, I don't know whether anyone really would even

like to even try and push it any further, you know?

The Höfner was a Beatle bass

and he wasn't a Beatle anymore.

And I don't blame him, you know.

Those guys had had a hell of a life.

For all their fame and money, they'd had a hell of a time.

I think the Höfner was part of that time

and they just wanted it gone.

Ian thought that the bass had gone into 100 Cambridge Gardens.

So, we were interested to find out more about this character Dik Mik

that, at that time, certainly Trevor suspected and Ian did as well.

Dik Mik was a roadie and he'd been a weed dealer.

We were able to find that, in the basement flat

of 100 Cambridge Gardens

a band called Hawkwind

and a lot of members of the band called Pink Fairies, lived.

Good. That's a good girl.

Trevor and Ian were both very good friends of mine.

It was the next day

when I saw Trevor, and he just said

"Fuck," he says, "Paul's bass got stolen out of the van

last night outside Cambridge Gardens."

I said, what?

They said, keep your ears peeled and...

you know, see if there's any word coming out or any word on the street, or...

And Dik Mik, who was Dik Mik?

Dik Mik was one of the people in the original Hawkwind.

Dik Mik was unfortunately, most of the time, out of his head on Mandrax.

But he could've been outside blagging away or leaning against the van

or whatever, having a smoke.

You know, and somebody could've said, whose van is that?

"Oh, it's Wings' van, you know."

I heard reports of Hawkwind's gear going missing

but that's only the tip of the iceberg.

The whole dynamic around Hawkwind is somewhat troubled.

In May 1972, Hawkwind had had £10,000 worth of kit

stolen from their van.

In old newspaper searches, we found out that

they'd been banned from the BBC

because they'd stolen a microphone.

I think, didn't they write a song that was sort of anti-The Beatles?

They were anti-The Beatles.

So they felt quite anarchic.

It felt like Hawkwind had a motive

and it also felt like they had the personality to go and do it.

Ladbroke Grove was pretty funky.

You know, there was the hippies, there was the...

all the people who had the fruit and veg stalls.

A lot of thugs showed up on Portobello Road

and that's when things started to go downhill.

You know, rougher...

People started injecting.

People started getting stuff stolen.

Paul Rudolph described a place with a lot of poverty

a lot of people really clinging on.

That it wasn't a big deal for something to be stolen out the back of a van.

It happened all the time.

The bass did feel like that's the last place on Earth it should really be

which is a long, long way from these dark, poorly-lit streets.

You know, lots of political banners written on bedsheets

sort of hanging out the windows.

And anarchists, and theft.

To picture the bass in the middle of all of that

makes you feel like this little thing is out there that desperately needs saving.

But then a penny dropped and I thought, ah.

I got an email about six months before this

from a guy talking about the bass being stolen in Ladbroke Grove.

So, I naturally went and dug back through the pile of emails and found it.

It was from a guy called Andrew, Andrew Dickinson.

And so, yeah, I contacted them and said, look, you know...

something's occurred.

We didn't tell them what, but that further information's arisen.

Can they tell me more?

I didn't think we were gonna hear any more, to be honest.

It was a very small story to tell.

Whereabouts are you struggling? - Ah, just me neck.

He was, like, really digging in hard, you Know.

I think he was using his elbow or something.

I think they do a lot with their elbow, sort of dig in, you know.

Did you get a happy ending?

No. - No.

I didn't fancy it.

I got back to Steve and said

it's Nick, he's emailed me again.

Next time. - Yeah.

I think, you know, it's your story to tell.

Do you want to get involved and say a little bit more?

Oh, God... Straight away, I thought

I've opened my mouth here and he's not gonna let this go now.

What I didn't want to come out was

our first house was just off of Ladbroke Grove

not far from Grenfell Tower.

It was quite a carousel of people coming and going, really.

I think I was made aware of

who you could talk to and where you could go.

You had boundaries of where you could go and where you couldn't go.

So, there was only so many people you were likely to get to meet

or likely to get to see.

Dad had a couple of jobs.

He played a lot of football, Saturdays and Sunday mornings.

Dad's mates, they would always tell me how good my dad was

as a semi-pro footballer.

Cos he was good, Dad.

And there was a pub, it's called The Admiral Blake.

And that's where they all used to congregate, my dad and his mates.

So, occasionally I'd get taken across.

It was a good source of information. It was a good source of recreation.

It was just a good way of socialising and getting around

and getting to know what was going on

and who was doing what around the area and stuff like that.

There was racketeering going on and people going around

and if you want a...

garden fork or a spade, there's a couple in the back of that lorry

that no one knows they're there, if you want that.

If you couldn't get rid of it or you hadn't sold it

take it up the pub, someone'll have it off ya.

Someone, you know, will buy it off ya.

Obviously, I wasn't always crewed up with him

so I was getting little bits of information here, there and everywhere.

So, it got to the stage where, when I was looking at the rota

I thought, oh no, I'm working with him again, I know what's coming here.

I'll just have to try and muddy the waters a little bit here

cos he's not gonna let it go.

He'd heard that it had been stolen from the road that they were in.

They sold it to the barman in the pub

and then they'd sort of dumped it in the canal

just because they knew it was Paul McCartney's

and they'd never be able to get rid of it.

We got an A-Z out of the... out of the van.

I said that was the pub, so there's the canal there

so I'm assuming there. He says, whereabouts do you think?

I said, Andy, I don't know, I wasn't there!

So, no idea.

I said, but that's the canal. If I lived in that pub

I would've walked over that bridge and just lobbed it there.

And then he said

do you reckon we can get a boat and...?

I said no. No, I don't think we can get a boat and go and find it.

I think Andrew replied to me

saying he would ask his partner

and it's then I get an email from Steve.

Now, we had a strong lead

it's been stolen and it went on to this pub.

The email had said that it had been thrown into the canal.

That was quite a low point, really.

It was almost like, you know, the body of the guitar

had been dumped into the water there.

And I remember feeling that the result isn't what we wanted

but we might actually have a story now

that we know where Paul McCartney's bass is.

But sadly, it's at the bottom of that canal and probably gone forever.

♪ Three, four ♪

♪ My-- ♪ Oh.

My manager at the time got a call

from Paul's manager at the time.

Richard wants you to go down to work with Paul.

I said, you're kidding. It was like...

You know, I was 33, I think, when we started doing that.

He wasn't calling up an eight-year-old kid who was in the fan club.

♪ One, two, three, four ♪

♪ My brave face ♪

We got off to a flying start, you know.

♪ Unaccustomed as I am ♪

And we just recorded with two guitars and vocals, and it was good fun.

♪ Only it didn't hit back ♪

There's a version of me singing My Brave Face where I'm singing lead

so Paul could fly around on the bass, and he's doing all these moves that I...

but I never felt like you could hear the voice

because this bass was just too... it was too big sounding.

At some point, I asked about the whereabouts of the Höfner

and it suddenly appeared.

Elvis Costello said, what about your Höfner bass, you know?

Your violin bass, the Beatle bass?

And I was saying, well...

I can try it, but it's not very good at keeping in tune

which it is isn't, cos they're not very expensive instruments.

So I'd given up recording with it, really

in favour of more modern instruments.

But he said, "I love the sound of it, you know, go on."

But it wasn't the lost bass, the '61 bass.

This was the '63.

But I think at that point, things changed for Paul.

♪ Ever since you left, I've been trying to compose ♪

♪ Will you please come home? ♪

♪ Not meant for you ♪

And it recorded great. It's got a lovely tone for a little bass.

Honestly, I felt vindicated when I heard the part.

You could hear his personality really clearly

and it had the tone, it had the tone.

It was like somebody singing, you know.

Elvis Costello suggested bringing out the '63.

Maybe that kinda like...

He might've thought, oh yeah.

Maybe that's when the whole conversation

started up again about, where is the original one?

By the time we got to '89, '90

when we were about to embark on a big, massive world tour

and Paul said, what are people gonna want to...

you know, they're gonna come to the gig, what are they gonna want?

They're gonna want Beatles.

They're gonna want some big, big moments.

♪ Close your eyes and I'll kiss you ♪

♪ Tomorrow, I'll miss you ♪

♪ Remember I'll always be true ♪

♪ And then while I'm away ♪

♪ I'll write home every day ♪

♪ And I'll send all my loving to you ♪

Paul's quite nostalgic about things.

They're important to him.

Not maybe in a collectible way, but just emotionally.

And they're part of his history and part of his life, and he...

yeah, he probably missed the bass.

He just wanted it back.

Yeah, well, I think anything that's nicked, you want back.

You know, especially if it has a sentimental attachment.

Plus, I was annoyed that someone nicked it.

You know, it's like, how dare you? Give me it back, you know.

Very often in investigations, there's a breakthrough moment

where you're effectively given something on a plate.

Who's Stephen?

Who is this person and how does he know so much about the theft of this guitar?

I'd made an enquiry about the residence of 100 Cambridge Gardens

so who was on the electoral register?

And I just remember reading through the list of names

and we got to the name Glenister.

Oh, my God.

His parents are on the electoral register in 100 Cambridge Gardens.

We was on holiday in Spain and my phone went.

Is that Steve Glenister? Yep.

Erm, it's Nick Wass here from the lost bass.

I said, oh right. Hi, you alright?

He said...

I think you know a little bit more than you're letting on.

Are you prepared to... say anything?

I said, not really, I don't know anything other than I've told you.

And he said, I think you do.

I knew I had to ask him the question

and say to him, look, Steve...

just tell me what happened.

You know. I know you know, because you wouldn't have sent me all this stuff.

And I know you were in the house. Just tell me what happened.

My dad used to come and watch me play football a lot.

He was never complimentary about the way I played.

There was always something I could've done better and that, so

we was coming home one day and I had the radio on in the car.

How old do you think you were at this point?

I may have just had the kids, so mid-20s, something like that.

This song come on.

And I just said, oh, it's the Beatles. I like these.

And I done it more.

The louder the radio was, the less he could talk.

I was getting a bit fed up with it all, so I just sort of turned the radio up.

And he said...

he said, did I ever tell you about that guitar then?

I said, what guitar?

He said, the one... Paul McCartney's guitar.

So I said, no, and he started to laugh. So I turned the radio down.

He said...

well, he said, I nicked it.

I said, what do you mean, you nicked it?

He said, I didn't even know it was the guitar.

He said, I just opened this van up.

He said, when I realised what it was, I thought, oh...

you know, it's Paul McCartney's.

It's the obvious shape, that proper shape guitar.

I can just imagine, bless him, his face. "Oh... what we gonna do with that?"

You nick the Mona Lisa, what you gonna do with that?

You can't sell it. You know, it's just one of those things.

It was that family up on the top floor.

They were ignored by Ian and Trevor on the day.

Nobody went with a wrench to those people up on the top floor.

And to be honest, they were ignored by us

in the early days of the search. - And that is perhaps

one of the most extraordinary things about this whole story.

It got given to a pub landlord

who run the Admiral Blake.

The landlord at the time was a chap called Ron.

He said, "I just said to Ron, 'Here y'are, I tell you what.

Give this to one of your kids. They can learn it.

Just give us a couple of drinks.'"

I said, what? He said, well...

I just had... he said...

he said he bought me a days' worth of light ales.

So, this guitar ended up with Ron

and I think one of his kids, Graham, ended up with it.

It had gone to a pub landlord called Ron Guest.

We knew that it had then been passed on to his son Graham

who unfortunately had died in this terrible car crash.

But then we decided to look at the other children

and I was able to contact Elaine Guest

who was the youngest of the children, and talk to her.

That's me on the roof with the two dogs.

Cos the roof was our garden.

I mean, I grew up with Graham always having a bass.

I can't remember a time when it suddenly appeared.

It was always Graham's bass.

He was just always playing, you know.

And he didn't mind if I plonked myself down and listened to it.

Where was it kept here?

In the little bedroom.

You don't think he would've known it was Paul McCartney's?

Definitely not! Definitely not.

I mean, when you think about it, who in their right mind

would buy a bass knowing it was Paul McCartney's

and then give it to your son?

Who's gonna take it God knows where

and somebody's gonna say, but that's Paul McCartney's bass!

But no.

Do you wish you'd played it a bit now?

Now I know it was his, yes!

Were you into The Beatles? - No.

No. No. I always thought The Beatles were like a girly band.

After Graham had died

her brother Hayden took the bass from their family home.

Hayden got divorced in the 1990s

and then married someone else, and had ended up in Hastings.

He left his wife and kids and then got involved with somebody

and that's hence why there's been NO communication at all.

From what I gather, the bass was just in the loft in the house at Hastings.

We were in Los Angeles. We were rehearsing, I think.

And I got a phone call from a colleague, said

somebody's turned up at the farm with a bass

and they think it might be Paul's, this lost bass

that everybody's talking about all of a sudden

cos it had been in the press by then.

And she'd left some photos and then took the bass back.

So, I was emailed the photos

and I just had a feeling, I could feel it, I could...

"Ooh, this is... this is really interesting."

And the next day, I was with Paul in the morning

and I had my laptop, and we were about to leave for the studio

and I said, I've got something I need to talk to you about.

And he thought it was something bad, he said, is it bad?

I said, no, it's not bad.

And I opened up my laptop and I was shaking.

I was literally shaking.

The minute I saw the case it was in, whoa...

I've got it back.

Oh, my God.

And I'm checking it and thinking, well, yeah that's it, and...

you know, that's how it looked and this is definitely the case.

And I remember carrying it in that case.

So, I organised for somebody to go and pick it up

and then I said, have you got it?

He said, yep, it's here. I said...

Keep it. Don't let anybody...

Just put it away.

♪ And in the end ♪

♪ The love you take... ♪

We've hardly let it out of our sight.

♪ Is equal to the love ♪

♪ You make ♪

And I'm sitting at home on my sofa.

Cathy's sitting over there and my mobile phone goes

and this voice comes on

and saying, "Hey, we've got the bass back.

We've got the bass."

And I'm thinking, who's that, who's this, who are you?

Then the penny dropped, the accent, the Liverpool accent.

I realised it was Paul McCartney.

Well, we didn't quite know who to tell.

There were factors that meant we should keep it a secret

for a bit longer, till we've got our act together

till we absolutely had everyone verify

that it was mine, people like Nick.

So, it was sweet to be able to ring him up

and say, guess what?

It was stunning, you know. It was like...

Wow, what, really?

I think I said to Paul, I think I'm gonna go and get a beer out of the fridge for this.

He said, I would.

He said, is it a German beer like I used to drink in Hamburg?

It was just amazing, cos I could hear Paul on the phone to Nick

and it was just amazing.

That was incredible for us to just sit here, thinking

that Nick was in Germany, Paul was in LA

the bass was in Sussex, and we'd done it.

What happened to me over the last year, I've had two strokes

which has certainly changed things for our life.

And the bass has certainly lightened that situation

for us, I would say.

Yeah, sure. Focuses the mind.

Paul McCartney's most treasured bass guitar

that he had played throughout the early days of The Beatles

vanished without trace.

Now, 51 years later, it has been found.

James Dunham went to meet the mother of two

who was unaware she was holding on to an iconic instrument.

I was actually cataloguing lots of guitars that I've got

and when I googled it, it immediately came up.

I panicked and then went straight to his house

cos I knew he lived nearby.

And I eventually found it after going through a lot of fields.

It had broken in the press that we were looking for this lost bass.

That might have been one of the reasons Cathy thought, I better give it back.

There's this little side life it's gone off

and living with all these people I don't know.

And it ends up with Cathy.

You have to remember, this is Paul's bass.

This is something he really truly cares and loves

and if you leave a guitar in a loft, it'll destroy a guitar, you know.

You gotta put it all together

put the strings on and then just play that first chord

and just hope that you've got it right.

That's where the craftsmanship is

and Martin obviously is an old-school craftsman

in the way he works, the way he does things.

These poor people that it means a lot to but it doesn't really sort of...

I'm not that fussed about it.

I just think, get over yourself, it's just a guitar.

And, you know, now I get it.

I get it now but I still don't get it, get it, really.

You know, just leave it.

Thieving's nothing to be proud of, full stop.

But that said, we've all done it.

We've all done it, so...

but it's...

the iconic guitar

that he had in his hands.

The implication, the size...

of it.

Its meaning to, obviously, Paul McCartney and other people.

The enormity of it all is just a bit sort of, blimey.

Overwhelming. - Yeah, a little bit, yeah.

I don't want...

I don't want anyone to think of Dad

anything but a nice lad, cos that's what he was.

He was a lovely, lovely lad.

But there wasn't always a receipt in the house for what we had.

It was just... to make ends meet a little bit.

I don't blame him too much.

You know, I think it's just petty thievery.

It's the kind of thing we would've done a little bit of in Liverpool.

Just, you know, just...

it's there and I could nick it, so I will.

We got out of that pretty quickly

cos, luckily, The Beatles took over and we found an honest profession.

But I can sympathise with people who don't have that kind of luck.

So, I don't blame him too much.

I'm not comfortable. I'm not... alright with it.

You're sort of... you're taking the name

or my dad, through muddy waters and that's not what you do.

Growing up anyway, I don't remember my dad ever telling me he loved me

not that that was a problem for me, it was just how it was.

When...

we had a little boy

and I rang home, he...

he never told me, Mum told me.

But...

I later found out that he cried

which, Dad never did that.

Dad never cried. I never saw a tear out my dad's eye.

God knows... I can't remember, I think.

But apparently he cried, cos...

like, to Dad, it meant the name would never go.

Did you just see the one I sent you? The one with the glue?

Have you seen that one yet?

- No. - Oh, I've just sent you...

Oh, I've just sent you another one with Martin actually gluing the neck back on.

Oh, lovely. Is that Martin?

Yep, say hi. - Hello, Paul.

Hi, Martin. - Your bass is saved.

I know! Thanks for doing this.

It's great. - You're welcome.

I like his workshop as well.

Oh yeah, it's a lovely workshop. Well, look at his garden.

Oh yeah, that's... there you go.

How beautiful is that?

Yeah. - The pond.

Beautiful.

Yeah, I can't wait to play it.

Yeah, won't be long.

Have a good one, Paul. - Thank you.

Bye.

I feel like over the last 20 years or so

Paul, to me, seems to appreciate more and more

how good they were, and how good the songs were.

When he plays them, he really enjoys them.

"This was a great song, we really, really did well."

And he's so proud of what they achieved.

So, I think now him playing them on stage is big for him.

I think he loves it.

He's come that full circle.

We can have a little break now.

OK, cool. I've actually got something you might wanna see.

You've got something for me.

A little something you might wanna see that I believe belonged to you.

If you wanna come this way.

Whoa, here it is!

Hey... - Look at that.

Look at that.

Ooh! - He's done a brilliant job, hasn't he?

Oh, yeah, I wanted to show you that.

Nice little note from Martin.

From Martin.

"Many times I've had the pleasure of putting music back

into old, broken instruments.

It's been an absolute joy to do that with your bass

so thanks and I hope you like it.

Keep on truckin'."

Thank you, Martin.

He's done a great job. - Yeah.

I love those kind of guys.

50 years ago since you've last played that.

It's crazy, innit? - It's true, isn't it?

It's over 50 years, yeah. - That's crazy.

But I'd love to know what you were doing.

Maybe rehearsing for something.

Yeah. And if the van had been parked...

I don't know. Yeah. - I know it was a long time ago.

Well, the van's parked and the guys go in for a couple of pints

and they decide they should leave the van

and go home, come back in tomorrow morning.

Oops.

Slight mistake. - Big mistake.

So, it gets nicked... - Yeah.

And then ends up with the local...

pub. - Is that a bit short, that strap?

Yeah. It's kind of a bigger, rounder sound as well, isn't it?

Yeah.

Wow.

There she is. - Yeah.

Welcome home, honey.

Look at that, wow.

Crazy story.

Yeah. Yeah.

I keep going back to...

You've gotta go a long way to find somebody

that's grown up without The Beatles.

And I think there's something about the relationship between

us all, you know, normal people and The Beatles

and you sort of think you know them, because you know the music.

The music went global

but the bass, by going off on that weird route

the minute it went from that van in Cambridge Gardens

it's gone into that ordinary British world.

It's gone missing here, it's ended up here

in ordinary streets, ordinary pubs, ordinary families.

And there's something incredible about that in its own right.

Dad used to take us up...

I was only about four or five, I think.

But he used to pick us up, pick me up, and we just used to sit on the bar.

I'm trying to be humble, but, you know

I think I was an important jigsaw puzzle piece

cos, you know, I guess if I hadn't been a Beatle fan

if I hadn't have met Steve

if I hadn't have played the guitar.

These little things that fall into place, it might just have been a different story.

We might never have found it.

There you go, to your dad.

Cheers to the old man, absent friends.

We didn't get it back just for Paul.

We got it back for everybody who was a Beatles fan.

All the kids like me.

We were little kids back then.

We're old farts now, you know.

They could see that bass once more, you know.

Yeah.

It's much better. - The logo's totally different.

Yeah, but that's the old logo.

Oh, yeah! Early logo.

Yeah, right!

How does it feel? - It feels great.

Does it?

Come on, we'll go and open the doors.

Hello!

Always... - Aww!

Good to see you, Nick.

My love! Fantastic to see you.

First time ever. Hello!

We meet at last.

Maybe he's gonna play the bass. Who can tell?

So, a little tale to tell you here.

A while ago...

I had a bass besides this one

my original bass

and it got nicked, to tell you the truth.

And we've been looking for it, for 50 years.

Well...

I got it back.

And here to make its first stage appearance in 50 years

is my original bass.

Get Back.

You ready?

Come on then.

♪ Jojo was a man who thought he was a loner ♪

♪ But he knew it couldn't last ♪

♪ Jojo left his home in Tucson, Arizona ♪

♪ For some California grass ♪

Well, we'd love to see it in your hands if you're happy to grab it.

I have it right here.

There she is.

There's my old baby.

Do you find yourself getting a bit more reflective as you get older?

Yeah, yeah, I think so. Yeah, definitely.

Because it's so special.

Now, I don't have an amp.

We were just four guys in Liverpool who didn't know each other.

I got introduced to John via a schoolmate of mine

and, yeah, I really liked him.

It's lovely to play.

And then George, I knew off the school bus.

And John was looking for someone else to play guitar

and...

I said I've got this mate who's pretty good.

Yeah, you can get right up there and you wouldn't normally use that.

I said to George, go on, play, he's looking.

So I encouraged George, George got it out of the case

and he plays a thing called Raunchy

which is good, and he did it great.

Then suddenly we had three of The Beatles then.

And it only needed Ringo to show up

for us to be complete.

♪ Jojo was a man who thought he was a loner ♪

♪ But he knew it couldn't last ♪

♪ Jojo left his home in Tucson, Arizona ♪

♪ For some California grass ♪

♪ Get back ♪

♪ Get back ♪

♪ Get back to where you once belonged ♪

♪ Get back ♪

♪ Get back ♪

♪ Get back to where you once belonged ♪

♪ Get back, Jojo ♪

♪ Go home... ♪