I rare glimpse into the life of Paul McCartney-impressive if you ask me

[underpants]

I've always been a fan (I was always a Paul guy mostly, other than Ringo of course :evilgrin: ) but I was flipping around the internet and I started reading about the trial and came across a glimpse into Paul's lifestyle. Quite amazing especially in this day and age where people cultivate being famous just to increase their famousness.

Modest lifestyle of Sir Paul McCartney who prefers the Tube to gilded cage
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article3578891.ece

The unprecedented insight into Sir Paul McCartney’s finances revealed in Mr Justice Bennett’s judgment presents a private man, desperate to maintain some normality for his family despite his status as a living legend.

When Sir Paul is not touring he prefers to live at his 1,500 acre Peasmarsh estate in East Sussex or his residence in St John’s Wood, north London. Despite John Lennon’s murder, Sir Paul has sought to make himself accessible to the public, even jumping on the Tube to his central London office. He objected to his wife’s demand for “security” at their properties, which he believed was a sympton of her vendetta against paparazzi.

He told the judge: “Unless on tour, my older children had very little security. They all attended local state schools. It is not healthy for a child to have security 24/7. It sets them apart from their peers and makes them an object of curiosity and ridicule. Such children live in gilded cages.”

There were no bodyguards at Peasmarsh when he lived there with Linda McCartney and their four children. “The general farm employees kept a lookout for anything suspicious,” he said. “Since the summer, I have, to my great relief, been able to revert to the security arrangements which were in force for most of my ‘celebrity’ life before late 2003, when Beatrice was born and when Heather began her campaign to increase security.”

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article3578891.ece

[graywarrior]

1. Very cool, but I am a Ringo fan

I remember when Ringo's daughter was being treated for a brain tumor in Boston. After her successful surgery at Women & Brighmans, Ringo ran around the hospital whooping & laughing and buying candy out of vending machines and giving it to everyone he came into contact with. He is so cute.

[MorningGlow]

2. Very nice to hear

A "normal family life" with minimal security and lots of time on the farm is what he and Linda established early on in their marriage. Nice to see he's been maintaining the same lifestyle all these years. Seems like a good guy. (And that's saying something, coming from a George chick like me! :evilgrin:)