At the beginning of March a guitar that had been owned by Paul McCartney, one that he’d thrown into a crowd during a Beatles concert many years ago, turned up in a school in Montenegro.
McCartney had tossed the Hofner Violin bass guitar into the audience after its neck broke. Milan Dobrilovic, a Montenegrin cameraman, said he had received the guitar from his cousin Dario Persi who was the fan who caught the instrument.
Dobrilovic recently donated the guitar to a music school in Herceg Novi, a tiny town on the country’s Adriatic coast.
The violin-shaped Hofner guitar was made famous by McCartney, who adopted it in 1961 and still uses the same model.
Guitars proven to have been owned by former Beatles members including McCartney and John Lennon have sold at auction for up to 330,000 pounds (640,000 dollars) in recent years.
Geezz those broken instruments must really cost alot.
I wonder if they would lose value if you actually tried to repair one?
It was donated? That was very generous, I’d like to think I’d do the same thing in that situation, but probably not.
I’d smash it in a million pieces before I’d give it to them.
I wonder how much Brian May’s homemade guitar will eventually go for when he croaks!
Phil