Sir Paul McCartney and The Beatles once sang, "Can't Buy Me Love," but these days there's probably not very much he couldn't purchase as it was announced late last week that his personal wealth has topped the one billion pounds (with a B) mark.
I grew up with their music and while I have a hard time processing that I am seventy-two, I have an even harder time realizing he is eighty-one. And don't get me started on all the infighting, innuendo, and internecine arguing too many of my generation have about 'who broke up The Beatles,' or 'who is the most successful of the former Beatles.'
For me, all of that is just noise, crap on a cracker. The music will live forever and that's what everyone and anyone should be celebrating. And if, in the course of the last sixty-plus years, Sir Paul has managed to squirrel away a couple of bob, don't begrudge him.
He helped create the soundtrack to more than one generation's growing-up movies. Sir Paul deserves every penny and more.
-bill kenny
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