Well, this might take his mind off other affairs. Paul McCartney is on the shortlist for the title of Top Living British Icon, a poll being run by BBC2's The Culture Show. He is one of four music names that appear in the final list of ten, whittled down from a list of 500 nominated by the BBC show's audience. The other music names on the shortlist are Kate Bush, David Bowie and Morrissey. The other six contenders are Alan Bennett, Michael Caine, Stephen Fry, Vivienne Westwood, David Attenborough and Kate Moss. You can vote for the overall winner at http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/livingicons/vote/
And talking of making Macca happy, I'm sure Paul is feeling much better this morning knowing that Noel Gallagher has come out very much on his side in the much hyped divorce proceedings between the former Beatle and the much loved Heather Mills McCartney. Speaking in the US, where he's busy promoting hits album 'Stop The Clocks', Gallagher, referring to his own split from ex-wife Meg Matthews, said last week: "I know what he goes through, man, getting divorced, and your fuckin' soon-to-be ex-wife is just being a fuckin' absolute lunatic. I've been there. I feel for him because she's putting all these stories out there that he's a wife-beater and he's an excessive drinker. And he's a hippie, man. And it's so fuckin' ridiculous. But, no, I feel for him because he's quite a dignified chap, and he's one of The Beatles, and it's not a very nice end to a period of his life, is it?"