McCartney: The Hunt for the Lost Bass review –...

Dogged detective work tracked down the instrument that had vanished more than 50 years ago, but the true story behind its theft injects a note of sadnessIt sometimes feels as if a week doesn’t go by without a legacy-building documentary about Paul McCartney. The latest is this geeky tale about the 1961 Höfner bass guitar, the unmistakable violin-shaped instrument which, as a teenager in 1961, he bought for the equivalent of £30 in Hamburg, and which became a part of the Beatles’ iconography. Aft