Back in the early nineties I was asked quite often if I was Nick Nolte. Then in 1992 People magazine put him on the cover with the title "Sexiest Man Alive". Then I got my haircut short and people stopped asking me if I was Nick Nolte. Then he got busted years later for drunk driving and this photo appeared everywhere. I am glad I don't have his money. So I went from looking like the sexiest man alive to the drunkest man alive.
Paul actually hated the Hofner because the intonation was so bad on the higher frets. He resurrected it in 1987 because people expected to see it with him. As he said, like people expect to see Charlie Chaplin with his cane.