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An annual rich list says Paul McCartney is Britain's first billionaire musician

Paul McCartney is a billionaire Beatle

The annual Sunday Times Rich List calculated that the wealth of the 81-year-old musician and his wife, Nancy Shevell, had grown by 50 million pounds 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. 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 king’s fortune includes the large inherited private estates of Sandringham in England and Balmoral in Scotland.

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