Paul McCartney Stevie Wonder Ebony and Ivory Most Expensive Bass Ever

Paul McCartney played his Yamaha BB-1200 bass guitar during the filming of Ebony and Ivory (remixed 2015), the 1982 music video with Stevie Wonder. His primary instrument from the late 1970s to the early ’80s recently went up as part of a charity auction organized by U2’s The Edge and producer Bob Ezrin to benefit their charity Music Rising. The bass fetched $496,100, which broke the record for most expense bass ever actioned, previously held by Bill Wyman’s 1969 Fender Mustang which sold for $384,000 at an auction in 2020. Obviously, the Yamaha is not the bass most commonly associated with McCartney. The Hofner bass during The Beatles era is more famous. It’s not even the bass most associated with McCartney during the Wings era, as that honor goes to the Rickenbacker 4001S, which McCartney used from Rubber Soul on. McCartney stripped the finish and famously used the guitar on the ‘Wings over the World’ tour, immortalized in the Rockshow concert film. Source: Far Out Magazine UK December 15,