The English press love a good yarn so much so that even when it is not true they will write about it anyway. Paul McCartney has addressed one made up story this week.
It was reported at the time of Jackson’s death that Michael was going to leave the Beatles songs he purchased in the mid 80s to Paul McCartney.Paul let that one go.
Then this week is was reported how devastated Sir Paul was when the songs were not left to him in the will.
He had this to say:
“Some time ago, the media came up with the idea that Michael Jackson was going to leave his share in the Beatles songs to me in his will which was completely made up and something I didn’t believe for a second”.
“Now the report is that I am devastated to find that he didn’t leave the songs to me. This is completely untrue. I had not thought for one minute that the original report was true and therefore, the report that I’m devastated is also totally false, so don’t believe everything you read folks!”
“In fact, though Michael and I drifted apart over the years, we never really fell out, and I have fond memories of our time together.”
“At times like this, the press do tend to make things up, so occasionally, I feel the need to put the record straight”.
Michael Jackson purchased the ATV Northern Songs publishing catalogue from Australian Robert Holmes a Court in 1985 for $47.5 million. The catalogue included the complete works of John Lennon and Paul McCartney.
Holmes a Court had only owned the catalogue for a few years by Holmes a Court after he bought it from Lew Grade who bought it in 1968.
It is estimated that today the catalogue is worth $1.5 billion.
Don’t feel too sorry for Sir Paul’s loss. Taking a lead from Jackson he also started to buy up other people’s catalogues. He now owns the complete works of Buddy Holly.
