LONDON (AP) – Paul McCartney is a billionaire Beatle.
According to figures released yesterday, the former member of the Fab Four is the first British musician to be worth GBP1 billion (USD1.27 billion).
The annual Sunday Times Rich List calculated that the wealth of the 81-year-old musician and his wife, Nancy Shevell, had grown by GBP50 million since last year thanks to McCartney’s 2023 Got Back tour, the rising value of his back catalogue and Beyonce’s cover of The Beatles’ Blackbird on her Cowboy Carter album.
A “final” Beatles song, Now and Then, was also released in November and topped music charts in the United States (US), the United Kingdom (UK) and other countries. Surviving Beatles McCartney and Ringo Starr completed a demo track recorded in 1977 by the late John Lennon, adding in guitar by George Harrison, who died in 2001. The newspaper estimated GBP50 million of the couple’s wealth is due to Shevell, daughter of the late US trucking tycoon Mike Shevell.
McCartney ranked 165th overall on the newspaper’s respected and widely perused list of the UK’s 350 richest people.
