It is a bass guitar from the German company Höfner, which McCartney used, among other things, when recording hits such as Love Me Do, She Loves You or All My Loving, and which he bought as a teenager in Hamburg in 1961 for 30 pounds, the server reported BBC. Apparently, following a worldwide hunt, Paul … Read more
NOS News•today, 4:27 PM•Adjusted today, 5:46 PM Paul McCartney has his beloved bass guitar back after more than fifty years. The instrument was stolen in 1972, eleven years after the Beatles singer and composer bought it for £30. The bass guitar can be heard on several hits by the British band and has an estimated … Read more
Ariana Burstein (cello) and Roberto Legnani (guitar) will be guests at a concert on Tuesday, January 9th at 7 p.m. in the Bremerhaven City Library. The duo’s music cannot easily be pigeonholed as “classical music” or “virtuoso music”. The program includes arrangements of classical masterpieces, but also compositions by Roberto Legnani, which sometimes sound like … Read more
When a New Yorker ordered a cleaning service in the late 1970s, Bill Frisell could have called his house. One of the most famous jazz guitarists, who will perform this Thursday at the Jazz Dock club in Prague, was in his thirties and did not make a living playing after weddings or airport bars. The … Read more
EPAMark Knopfler at a performance in Zurich on May 9, 2019 NOS News•today, 6:02 PM Dire Straits frontman Mark Knopfler will have more than 120 of his guitars and amplifiers auctioned in London next year. The British auction house Christie’s announced this today. A quarter of the proceeds will go to the British Red Cross … Read more
AFP On the left Martin Nolan, executive and financial director of Julien’s Auctions, holding Kurt Cobain’s Skystang I guitar. On the right, the leader of Nirvana on stage with this same guitar. AFP On the left Martin Nolan, executive and financial director of Julien’s Auctions, holding Kurt Cobain’s Skystang I guitar. On the right, the … Read more
After 50 years, the former Chilean soldier Pedro Barrientos, the material perpetrator of the murder of the singer-songwriter Víctor Jara committed a few days after the 1973 coup d’état, has been arrested in Daltona, in the United States. The US Immigration and Customs Enforcement confirmed the arrest of the former member of the Chilean army … Read more
After 50 years, the former Chilean soldier Pedro Barrientos, the material perpetrator of the murder of the singer-songwriter Víctor Jara committed a few days after the 1973 coup d’état, has been arrested in Daltona, in the United States. The US Immigration and Customs Enforcement confirmed the arrest of the former member of the Chilean army … Read more
Guitarist and singer Bruce Springsteen is sweating. He’s been playing for an hour and hasn’t stopped yet. As soon as he finishes the song, he doesn’t even leave room for applause and is already counting down to the start of the next one. He clenches his teeth, tenses his facial muscles, raises his eyebrows while … Read more
ZHENG’AN, June 11 (Xinhua) — People talk about guitar marketing at Zheng’an Guitar Industrial Park in Zheng’an County, southwest China’s Guizhou Province, 7th June, 2023. Zheng’an district is known as the center of guitar manufacturing in China. Zheng’an Guitar Industrial Park is an industrial grouping with standardized factories covering more than 800,000 square meters and … Read more