World Courant
LONDON — LONDON (AP) — Paul McCartney is a billionaire Beatle.
The previous Fab 4 member has change into the primary British musician to be price 1 billion kilos ($1.27 billion), in response to figures launched Friday.
The annual Sunday Occasions Wealthy Record calculated that the wealth of the 81-year-old musician and his spouse, Nancy Shevell, had grown by £50 million since final 12 months because of McCartney’s Received Again tour in 2023, the rising worth of his again catalog and Beyoncé’s cowl from The Beatles’ ‘Blackbird’ on her album ‘Cowboy Carter’.
A ‘ultimate’ Beatles track, ‘Now and Then’, was additionally launched in November and topped the charts within the US, Britain and different nations. Surviving Beatles McCartney and Ringo Starr accomplished a demo monitor recorded in 1977 by the late John Lennon, including guitar from George Harrison, who died in 2001.
The newspaper estimates that £50 million of the couple’s fortune is owed to Shevell, daughter of the late American trucking magnate Mike Shevell.
McCartney ranked one hundred and sixty fifth general on the revered and broadly used checklist of Britain’s 350 richest folks. First place went to Gopi Hinduja and his household, who personal the banking, media and leisure conglomerate Hinduja Group and are price an estimated £37 billion.
Different leisure figures on the checklist embrace ‘Harry Potter’ creator JK Rowling, whose fortune is estimated at £945 million, and singer Elton John, who’s estimated to be price £470 million.
King Charles III ranked 258th with an estimated fortune of £610 million. The king’s fortune contains the big inherited non-public estates of Sandringham in England and Balmoral in Scotland. The overall doesn’t embrace objects held in belief by the monarch for the nation, such because the Crown Jewels.
