Andrew Leach, Mail on Sunday,

THE Beatles are still raking in millions of pounds, 25 years after they
split up. According to the latest accounts from their company, Apple
Corps, annual profits were £1.4m on turnover that jumped to £11.8m from
£8.6m the year before.  The company exploits all activities relating to the Fab Four, from
music
through to visual assets such as posters and videos.

Though profits were slightly down on the £1.6m the previous year, the
two
surviving Beatles and the widows of John Lennon and George Harrison
received higher payments for promotional services.  Sir Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Yoko Ono and Olivia Harrison received
£1.7m each in the year to the end of January 2004, up from £1.3m a year
earlier.

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You haven’t lived until you’ve seen Sir Paul McCartney twirl his wife
around the dance floor to the music of Peter Duchin and his band. Other
partygoers, the lucky ones at ringside tables, feign disinterest while
trying to decide which is more remarkable: the sight of the former
mop-top McCartney fox-trotting to Peter Duchin, or the fact that Lady
McCartney, who wears a prosthetic leg, dances so beautifully that it
seems almost rude not to stare.

But Duchin is at the piano. We are in the enchanted principality of
gold
ballroom chairs and the gracious aura surrounding those who perch on
them
at the benefit dinners where Duchin often performs. If Nijinsky were to
come gliding by in the arms of Valentino, there would be no gawking,
except perhaps with the aid of discreetly angled mirrors on expensive
compacts. Why shouldn’t those two dreamboats be here? We’re in heaven.
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HEATHER Mills McCartney is the sum of so many parts that to understand
her you first need to deconstruct her.
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Boxing clever

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