Lost To The Future: 'Back To The Future’ stars join Gibson in search for missing guitar

Published on 04/06/2025 - 16:46 GMT+2

Where is Marty McFly's missing guitar? 

If you’re a instrumentality of nan Back To The Future films, you’ll cognize precisely what that question’s about.  

In nan first Back to nan Future film, Marty McFly, played by Michael J. Fox, grabbed a cherry reddish ES-345 Gibson guitar and rocked retired astatine a 1950s precocious schoolhouse dance. He played ‘Johnny B Goode’ to a bemused crowd of teens successful 1 of nan film’s astir memorable scenes.

The Gibson has been mislaid successful nan years since the time recreation comedy was released successful 1985 and now, 4 decades later, nan guitar marque has teamed up pinch nan stars of nan movie to statesman a hunt for nan iconic instrument.

In a video by Gibson, pinch nan movie's taxable opus playing successful nan background, Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson and Harry Waters Jr. make a cinematic plea.

Lloyd, who played nan beloved Doc Brown, says successful nan video that nan guitar has been “lost to nan future.”

“It's location mislaid successful nan space-time continuum,” says Fox. “Or it's successful immoderate Teamster's garage.”

“No one’s seen that guitar since 1985, and we request to find it” Waters adds. “Ask your friends, inquire your relatives, inquire your bandmates”.

There's besides a astonishment quality by Huey Lewis, whose set Huey Lewis and nan News performed nan soundtrack's headliner song, ‘The Power of Love’.

They each impulse those pinch accusation connected nan guitar’s whereabouts to taxable tips via telephone aliases to sojourn their website.

The Back To The Future trilogy was released betwixt 1985 and 1990.

It spawned a video game, shape musical, arsenic good arsenic a animation series. It is besides credited pinch being nan main inspiration for nan celebrated animation show Rick And Morty.

However, nan imaginative squad person sworn that location will ne'er beryllium a 4th movie – pinch writer Bob Gale, speaking successful nan property room at The Saturn Awards earlier this year, saying: “People ever say, ‘When are you going to do Back to nan Future 4?’” 

He shared his reply to nan question: “We say, ‘Fuck you’!” 

Quite right.

Great Scott! Let’s get uncovering that guitar.