{"id":29546,"date":"2024-05-18T00:02:37","date_gmt":"2024-05-18T00:02:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/paul-mccartney-becomes-the-first-uk-musician-crowned-a-billionaire\/"},"modified":"2024-05-18T00:02:37","modified_gmt":"2024-05-18T00:02:37","slug":"paul-mccartney-becomes-the-first-uk-musician-crowned-a-billionaire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/paul-mccartney-becomes-the-first-uk-musician-crowned-a-billionaire\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul McCartney becomes the first UK musician crowned a billionaire"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-05-17\/M_PaulMcCartney_ABC.png\" alt><figcaption>ABC\/Heidi Gutman<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Sir <strong>Paul McCartney<\/strong> has once again made <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes.co.uk\/article\/sunday-times-rich-list-2024-revealed-plt3t2xrt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><span class=\"s1\"><strong>The Sunday Times&#8217;<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/a><em><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">Rich List \u2014 and\u00a0passed a new milestone in the process.<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">McCartney is one of 350 individuals and families to make the list, and this year he became the first U.K. musician to be crowned a billionaire.<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Paul and his wife,\u00a0<strong>Nancy Shevell<\/strong>, rank at #165 on the Rich List with a wealth of 1 billion pounds, which equates to more than $1.27 million in the U.S. Their\u00a0income\u00a0comes from Paul&#8217;s touring, his back catalog and more, as well as Nancy\u2019s family money.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">McCartney isn\u2019t the only artist on the Rich List, though. <strong>Elton John<\/strong>\u00a0lands at #291, with a wealth of almost $600 million. So are members of <strong>The Rolling Stones<\/strong>, with frontman <strong>Mick Jagger<\/strong> and guitarist <strong>Keith Richards<\/strong> both at #316, with earnings of more than $527 million.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ABC\/Heidi Gutman Sir Paul McCartney has once again made The Sunday Times&#8217;\u00a0Rich List \u2014 and\u00a0passed a new milestone in the process.\u00a0 McCartney is one of 350 individuals and families to make the list, and this year he became the first U.K. musician to be crowned a billionaire.\u00a0 Paul and his<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/paul-mccartney-becomes-the-first-uk-musician-crowned-a-billionaire\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,43,4],"tags":[7,134,317,114,315,316,142,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29546"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29546\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}