Macca's Music Money.

I see Paul McCartney has got the rights to his songs back from Michael Jackson’s estate. He says he fought the legal battle on a matter of principle, in that it was very annoying to have to pay to sing his own songs.

Well, I can understand that, but you have to wonder how much the issue of income played a part in the affair. McCartney’s fortune is reportedly worth several hundreds of millions of pounds, so he doesn’t exactly need the services of a loan shark to afford a holiday this year. Wouldn’t you be more inclined to say ‘Good old Macca’s got his songs back’ if good old Macca were henceforth to donate the royalties to charitable causes? Then he might be even happier singing his own songs free of charge, so maybe he will.