An annual rich list says Paul McCartney is Britain's first billionaire musician

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According to figures released Friday, the former member of the Fab Four, Paul McCartney, is the first British musician to be worth 1 billion pounds (US$1.27 billion).

According to figures released Friday, the former member of the Fab Four is the first British musician to be worth 1 billion pounds .The annual Sunday Times Rich List calculated that the wealth of the 81-year-old musician and his wife, Nancy Shevell, had grown by 50 million pounds since last year thanks to McCartney's 2023 Got Back tour, the rising value of his back catalogue and Beyonce's cover of The Beatles' "Blackbird" on her "Cowboy Carter" album.

Other entertainment figures on the list include "Harry Potter" author J.K. Rowling, whose fortune is estimated at 945 million pounds, and singer Elton John, estimated to be worth 470 million pounds. As the cost of food in Canada has risen, grocery shoppers are looking at ways to reduce their grocery bill, and more are choosing price over beauty, turning to companies that deliver so-called 'misfit' produce at a fraction of the cost.The Vatican on Friday radically reformed its process for evaluating alleged visions of the Virgin Mary, weeping statues and other seemingly supernatural phenomena, insisting on having the final say in whether the events are worthy of popular devotion.

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