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 by: RJKe...@yahoo.com - Thu, 19 Jan 2023 14:53 UTC

On Saturday, February 14, 2004 at 11:44:25 PM UTC-5, Lance wrote:
> 'Macca should donate more'
> By Mark Reynolds
> 10 February 2004
> Pssst...His own daughter once famously described him as 'a tight
> bastard'.
> Now Sir Paul McCartney's generosity has been questioned again, by
> fellow veteran rocker Dave Gilmour.
> Gilmour recently donated £3.6million to the 'urban village' project of
> the homelessness charity Crisis.
> The 58-year- old Pink Floyd star said he had more money than he knew
> what to do with and that giving huge amounts to charity therefore made
> sense.
>
> He went on to chastise the former Beatle for not giving more of his
> vast fortune to good causes.
> ' I am supposed to have £80million, according to the Rich List,' he
> said.
> '£3million is just a fraction of what the project is going to cost and
> it needs people with serious money to help out.
> 'My friend Paul McCartney is meant to have more than £500million.
> ' The way he lives you can understand where £100million goes.
> ' But I have no idea what he does with the other £ 400million. That's
> a crazy amount of money and nobody needs it.'
> In fact, 61-year-old Sir Paul's wealth is more accurately put at
> around £713million.
> Gilmour, who with Roger
> Waters was the songwriting talent behind Pink Floyd for 35 years, is
> close enough to Sir Paul to have attended his wedding to Heather Mills
> last year.
> His barbed comments might strike a chord with Sir Paul's fashion
> designer daughter Stella, who described her father as 'a tight
> bastard' for sending her to a comprehensive school.
> Three years ago, Sir Paul threw a birthday party for Heather where
> guests had to pay for their own drinks at the bar.
> On another occasion, he presented a workman with a gift of one bottle
> of beer brewed on his East Sussex estate. It did not go down very
> well.
> The star did, however, pass on $1million last year to one good cause -
> the landmines charity run by his wife - after earning it in one night.
> The Crisis project aims to build 400 homes for down-andouts and
> low-income workers in London.
> Despite Gilmour's generosity, it is still £50million short of the
> fund-raising total required.
> Sir Paul declined to comment on Gilmour's remarks.
> ---------------------------------
> Reprinted from
> http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/showbiz/articles/9063842?source=Daily%20Mail
>
> ---------------------------------
> ================================> http://www.beatlemania.ca

I've heard this before. But is it really Gilmour's business?

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