Great Scott! The guitar used by Marty McFly in Back to the Future to play “Johnny B Goode” has been missing for 40 years, and you can help to find it!
Famed guitar manufacturer Gibson has teamed up with Back to the Future cast members Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson, Harry Waters Jr. and Huey Lewis, as well as Back to the Future writer and producer Bob Gale, to create a campaign looking for help to locate the guitar used in the iconic scene. Gibson posted a video on their YouTube page featuring the Back to the Future veterans urging viewers to help find the guitar:
When it comes to guitars in movies, no guitar was more iconic or more influential than the Cherry Red Gibson ES-345 used by Marty McFly to play “Johnny B Goode” in the movie Back to the Future. That scene has been cited by countless artists as the moment they knew they wanted to play guitar.
One problem: the guitar has been missing since 1985, and no one knows its whereabouts.
Join the filmmakers as they search the globe for the most important guitar in cinema history, all while telling the story of the iconic movie scene that inspired a generation to pick up the guitar.
Where we’re going, we don’t need roads—just clues. Do you know anything about the missing original Gibson ES-345? Or do you want to be the first to hear what we uncover? Click the link and come along for the ride or call 1-855-345-1955 to submit your tips!
You can sign up for up dates on the website, www.losttothefuture.com, which has a counter counting down to October 21, which is of course, ‘Back to the Future Day,’ the date Doc and Marty travel to in Back to the Future Part II.
You can watch the star-studded video below: