Toyota Ad Featuring B.B. King Based on True Story

B.B. King’s Toyota commercial, titled “Guitar,” was the last public marketing appearance the beloved blues master made before his passing. In the commercial, a woman purchases a guitar at an auction and discovers that it’s one of King’s iconic Lucille Gibson guitars. She drives in a Camry to meet him backstage and reunites him with the guitar, which he then autographs and gives to her. Sounds like an awesome, too good to be true story for real life, but this seemingly fictitious plotline is actually based on a true story.