Turns out Paul McCartney will be even wealthier in ten years time - Heather should have hung on in there. Yep, Macca has revealed that the copyright to The Beatles back catalogue will return to him (and, I assume, the Lennon estate) in about ten years time.
I say he "revealed" this. I certainly didn't know that was due to happen, so I'm guessing it wasn't entirely common knowledge, and he himself implied the news came as something of a surprise. Speaking to the Daily Express, he said recently: "In about 10 years a lot of the back catalogue returns to me, just legally. Some of the important rights are about to return which I didn't realise".
McCartney, of course, was really rather upset when Michael Jackson essentially pushed him out of SonyATV, the publishing company who own the Beatles catalogue, back in the eighties. Especially as, legend has it, Jacko only started buying into the SonyATV empire after McCartney told him he should invest some of his then mounting fortune into owning publishing rights.
And it obviously still pisses him off now. McCartney continued: "You know what doesn't feel very good is going on tour and paying to sing all my songs. Every time I sing 'Hey Jude' I've got to pay someone."