21st Century Paul:
That's one of the question I think... How come Paul can live with so many money? Would it make him happy, proud, guilty, worried? When asked Lennon on a Playboy interview about his 250 milions. "Yeah, you only can take your soul with you, but what do you want me to do, give everything and walk the streets?"... How much give? WHERE to give? Why give? Paul is a worker, he has hurt not no one to earn the money... quite the oppossite... Would part of the money fix something? The Golden generation of rock and roll are all milionaries or bilionaires... well... it gives them power, even to protect their music... God knows what would happen to the Beatles legacy after Paul.
First of all, I despise the vilification of celebrities based upon sheer jealously and vindictiveness of their successes. Once you have done what Paul McCartney has done, once you have lived in his shoes and gotten together a body of work, and nay, once you have changed the entire planet as much as this one single man had done, and lost your life's partner to a horrible disease and still have the grace to give your gifts to the world and be gracious to your fans, then you get back to me, man. Do it. Armchair quarterbacks have no place in my world. "The love you take, is equal to the love you make." Man. What the effover, Rover? Do not attack my Sir Paul McCartney, LOL. He is a human being, the same as your or I, and he makes choices, just the same as you or I do. I chose to ditch the corporate towers and the flourescent lights and the shite sandwich they tried to feed me every day and tell me how tasty it was, man. And it wasn't tasty, it was shite. A big heaping pile of shite. Under the name of the god of money. Now I'm poor and and down and out, but yet I'm not. The feeling of nowhere to be or nothing to do is pretty darned good, in my not so effing humble opinion. Maybe that's just an American upstart point of view, I dunno. Perhaps I am a rebel. I keep a picture by my desk. It's some artsy orange-ish thing with a spiral, very pretty. The quote reads: "You must be the change you wish to see in this world." Ghandi said that. Are you willing to give up all you possess and go out like Ghandi and Mother Theresa and live with poor people and lepers? Right now? Give it all up, man. Walk out the door with nothing on your back and go to India and help the poor people there with nothing but a cloak on your back. We can't fight the evils of this world with zero dollars, or pounds, or Euros, man. We have to make the money to fight them. Sting knows that. "Life imitates art," a saying by one Oscar Wilde, my cousins' ancestor, whose portrait I keep on my fridge to remind me not to take life too seriously. Sting knows that, he's no dummy. It's the artists of this world who create this world. That is to say, the artist reflect society and give back their vision of what this world can be, and SHOULD BE, under my watch, me being a Stewart descendant, a land steward, and well, just a plain human being who has come down to this planet into a body to clean it up, right now. I am the File, I am the Crow, I am the crazy Fox and I am the Sword of Light and Vengeance and I am here to stay. This sort of thing will not fly from a woman whose 9 ancestors fought against injustice, man. Not for one second. Don't you think that my husband's grandfather, Pierre Monteux, who was a Jew in Europe when Hitler was around, got that? He got out and came to the states and then he sponsored other musicians to come on down to America and get away from well, death. Have you ever watched "Fog of War," or "Boy in the Striped Pajamas?" Have you read history, and the history of how the Beatles and Sir Paul McCartney were influenced? Pierre Monteux caused a freaking RIOT when he conducted Rites of Spring, man. Some classical tune you can now listen to with ease in your comfy home on your internet, while poor starving kids play with sticks and drink out of arsenic-ridden wells in Africa. Get with the program, man. With riches, comes power. Power is just power. You can use it for good or bad. It's up to you what you do with your "power points." I choose to give mine to Doctors Without Borders, the American Red Cross, and Seeds of Peace, etc. I do what I can with the resources at my disposal. Think of that next time you want to heap criticism on my next imaginary 4th husband. Tu est pissant, mange la merde de la vache! Phhht! "But they told me, I'm made to be faithful... and fight to the end... but I'm only human." ~~Michael Jackson