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It has been 40 years since Back to the Future hit theaters, and one iconic piece of movie history has been missing ever since
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Can you help track down Marty McFly's guitar? the legendary Cherry Red Gibson ES-345, played by Michael J. Fox, in one of the film's most famous scenes, has vanished
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It's somewhere lost in the space-time continuum, or it's in some teamster's garage
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Now, guitar maker Gibson is officially on the case, launching a public search Tuesday with a little help from some familiar faces
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is. Michael, Michael, I'm sorry, I'm afraid you're just too darn loud
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Is that you Yes that music legend Huey Lewis who made a cameo in the first film as a judge at the school talent show Now with the help of fans Gibson hopes to track down the guitar once and for all and they documenting the search in a new film called Lost to the Future
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celebrating the franchise's 40th anniversary. Or there might be a paradox. Christopher Lloyd, a.k.a. Doc Brown, might be on to something
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The guitar was originally borrowed from Norman's rare guitars in Los Angeles, but in a 2023 interview with guitarist Joe Bonamassa, the owner of the guitar shop said there was always a little time travel trouble
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And I said, look, they didn't come out with these guitars until 1958
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You know, I just want to warn you, they said we're taking artistic liberty