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Rich people still rich

By | Published on Friday 5 May 2017

Adele

It’s that time of year again. The Sunday Times Rich List is upon us. Once again, it will be confirmed for all to see that rich people are still definitely rich. And definitely richer than you. Bow down to their awesome wealth, peasants!

Maybe if you’d tried a bit harder you too could have amassed a massive fortune through either luck or inheritance, or maybe a mixture of the two. Instead you just graft day in day out at a job you hate, you lazy shits. What you should have done is put some warbling down on record and then gone out on your first tour for five years. Then you could have added £40 million to your bank balance. You know, like Adele did.

Unsurprisingly, Adele remains the richest musician in the country under the age of 30. The Sunday Times reckons she’s now worth £125 million. However, that only makes her joint nineteenth wealthiest musician overall, alongside Brian May. All of those above her did have quite a head start though, being either old or the beneficiaries of dead people.

As ever, the newspaper has ensured that the list is irrelevant by failing to compare like with like – some people are listed with their spouses, others like U2 as one combined entity. But it’s fun to look at a list of people who you assume to be wealthy and have it confirmed that they do indeed own an entirely unnecessary amount of money. Well done everyone.

So, here’s the 2017 list of Britain’s richest musicians:

1. Paul McCartney and Nancy Shevell (£780m)
2. Andrew Lloyd-Webber (£740m)
3. U2 (£548m)
4. Elton John (£290m)
5. Mick Jagger (£250m)
6. Keith Richards (£235m)
7. Olivia and Dhani Harrison (£210m)
8. Ringo Starr (£200m)
10. Sting (£185m)
11. Eric Clapton (£170m)
11. Rod Stewart (£170m)
13. Roger Waters (£165m)
14. Tom Jones (£160m)
15. Tim Rice (£152m)
16. Robbie Williams (£150m)
17. Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne (£140m)
18. Charlie Watts (£130m)
19. Adele (£125m)
19. Brian May (£125m)



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