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Location: Atlanta, GA. | During the presentation of the Gershwin Prize for Popular Music to Paul McCartney, President Obama stated that during his career McCartney has written (by himself or with others) over 200 songs that made the charts and stayed on the charts for a cumulative total of 32 years!
Gotta wonder what his royalty checks look like. |
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Location: Caribou, ME | I'm guessing he doesn't have to clip coupons. |
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Location: Texas | Originally posted by cholloway:
Gotta wonder what his royalty checks look like. I don't know what they looked like, but I think some of them were made out to Michael Jackson for a while there… |
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Location: Indiana | Originally posted by standing:
I don't know what they looked like, but I think some of them were made out to Michael Jackson for a while there… Only the publishing... not the writer share. |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | Originally posted by cholloway:
over 200 songs that made the charts and stayed on the charts for a cumulative total of 32 years! Ah, but will we still need him,
will they still feed him,
When it's 64? |
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Location: Tennessee | I recently read something that said he's got a net worth of around a half a billion pounds. |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | No, that's his target weight at Jenny Craig.
Oh, we're not talking about Paul Blart yet ARE we? |
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An amazing statistic... if accurate!
