Paul McCartney’s Stolen Bass Guitar Saga to Be Told in New Documentary From ‘Super/Man’ Producers - Variety
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,” “The Last Survivors”).
Titled “The Beatle and the Bass,” the documentary is produced by Passion Pictures, which won this year’s BAFTA with the Sundance hit “Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story,” for BBC Arts.
...The detective story charts the saga of McCartney’s original Höfner bass guitar whose disappearance 51 years ago became one of rock ‘n’ roll’s most enduring mysteries.
McCartney, who will be featured in the film, 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…” he said.
The documentary will also boast interviews with others who are personally connected to the bass, including McCartney’s brother, Mike; as well as friend and artist Klaus Voormann, who knew the Beatles from the start; and collaborators such as Elvis Costello; along with fans, experts and journalists behind The Lost Bass Project who embarked on a mission to track down the bass and rescue and restore it.
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University presents photography exhibition, ‘Toxteth: The Harlem of Europe’ - University of Liverpool
A new photographic exhibition in Liverpool is set to tell the story of Toxteth’s Black musicians of the 1950s and 1960s, whose influence reached The Beatles and beyond.
...Key figures included The Chants – backed at times by The Beatles – The Harlems, The In Crowd, “The Godfather” Odie Taylor, Derry Wilkie, and Lord Woodbine (Harold Phillips), a Trinidadian calypsonian who first sampled Liverpool nightlife whilst serving in the RAF during WW2 before returning to the UK on the Windrush. Woodbine, known affectionately as “Woody”, formed the Royal Caribbean Steel Band, mentored The Beatles, promoted them at his New Colony Club, and helped drive them to Hamburg for their first major break.
In 1964, when The Beatles refused to play for segregated audiences in the US, Paul McCartney said: “It wasn’t a political decision – we’re from Liverpool – all the bands, Black, white, we all just played together.”
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‘Paul’s Great at Helping You Forget He’s Paul McCartney’: Morgan Neville on New Doc ‘Man on the Run’ - IndieWire
There are so many great shots in this film of the actual construction of songs, where you’re in the studio, and you’re seeing them work through something. Was that something you specifically went looking for? How much did you want to have that behind the scenes?
I geek out on that stuff. And hearing the studio chatter. You can hear him orchestrating this stuff in his head in real time, which is what makes him Paul McCartney. And we have fragments of so many different songs in here. I loved the Beatles, but Wings were the band that were putting out albums when I was a kid, and that’s what I was buying. And I loved Wings. There’s so much interesting, good work through that decade that people don’t think about that much. He put out 10 records in 10 years. One of the happiest things was after I showed my son the film two weeks ago, I saw that he quietly added a whole bunch of Wings songs to his playlist on Spotify.
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