Pop is a young person’s game, they say. Well they used to. Now, though, pop — or at least its upper echelons — is a parade of pensioners who won’t stop working. Paul McCartney, Elton John, Sting and the Rolling Stones — all in their seventies and touring somewhere near you soon — continue to dominate the Music Rich List.
It is not only sales figures and streams that keep McCartney right at the top, with a fortune of £865 million, £45 million up on last year. It is also the ticket sales for his Covid-delayed Got Back tour. Not to mention the brilliant The Beatles: Get Back documentary, which had the world gawping at the Fab Four eating white toast in