Like a lot of documentaries this one could've been cut in half, but the story itself about the half-century journey by the most famous musical instrument in the world is amazing and you know you'll sit through anything to see him get his bass back:
One evening in 1972, Horne was with Wings in the studio until late. Afterwards he dropped off his brother-in-law in Notting Hill, in his van full of equipment. “You couldn’t park outside his house, so I parked close by on the corner of Cambridge Gardens. Then I went back to his house and spent the night. That area was all squats.”And of course in the end, Macca was McAmazing:
The next day Horne returned to the van to find the padlock broken. “My heart sank. Somebody had taken two AC30 amps, another acoustic guitar in its case — and Paul McCartney’s original Höfner in its case.”
McCartney doesn’t blame George Glenister much, telling the documentary that his “petty thievery” was not unlike what he and the Beatles might have got up to, growing up poor in Liverpool. “We got out of that pretty quickly, 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.”
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