Paul McCartney set for £200m digital deal

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Paul McCartney is close to signing a deal with EMI Records which could net the ex-Beatle and the band's estate over £200m in future earnings.

According to reports, McCartney is planning to release the band's legacy for the first time on iTunes and other digital music services in part to help pay for his looming multi-million-pound divorce from Heather Mills.

However, the deal isn't expected to be confirmed until later this year after the divorce pay-out is finalised, a figure which is expected to see 40-year-old Mills walk away with between £20 million and £30 million in an all-cash settlement after four years of marriage to 65-year-old McCartney.

McCartney had told US industry magazine Billboard recently, "It's all happening soon. The whole thing is primed, ready to go - there's maybe one little sticking point left and I think it's being cleared up as we speak so it shouldn't be too long."

[DudeAsInCool]

The LA Times reports on the "Can't Buy Me Love" marital case:

Mills awarded $48.6 million in divorce settlement

LONDON -- They say money can't buy you love. But don't tell that to Heather Mills, who won a $48.6-million divorce settlement today from former Beatle Paul McCartney, concluding a case so nasty even this city's salacious tabloids may be glad to see the end of it.

But no -- it's not over yet. Mills, a mere minutes after declaring she was "just glad it's over," declared she would be back in court again Tuesday in an attempt to seal the full text of the divorce judgment, in what she said was an attempt to protect her young daughter.

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[Kooperman]

I gotta believe a rich old Beatle should be able to find better than that shrewish loudmouth My advice to Paul: rent, rather than buy.

[Jim Colyer]

McCartney has not written or recorded a decent song since The Beatles.

[Umma]

Well that should more than cover what he had to fork out to the most annoying gold digging bimbo on the planet.

[Kooperman]

McCartney has not written or recorded a decent song since The Beatles.

Millions disagree with that lame opinion.

[DudeAsInCool]

McCartney has not written or recorded a decent song since The Beatles.

Sure he has. He's written quite a few gems beginning with his first solo album. He may have been better with The Beatles, but that kind of dismissive comment doesn't make any sense.

[rainbowdemon]

The first solo was exceptionally good!! "Band On The Run" was pretty good too. After that it got kind of iffy.

"Ebony and Ivory" is almost as annoying as "We Built This City"!!

[Shawn]

There is so much to rant about here that I'll just go point form:

- he would have been better off with Spitzer's call girl financially [no way she deserved that much]

- he would have been better off with Spitzer's call girl image-wise

- I don't think Jim Colyer is dead right, but he sure ain't dead wrong

- I wonder if that last detail to be worked out in the OP story was the headline of the second story

[Kooperman]

All those who tuned out on McCartney decades ago are missing some excellent music. Here are his last two albums:

http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&a...10:0nftxqysldhe

<a href="http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&a...10:gvfixzy5ldje" target="_blank">http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&a...10:gvfixzy5ldje</a>

If you can put your fixation on the past aside, give these a listen...but step into the 21st century before you put the headphones on.