Sir Paul McCartney may be worth hundreds of millions of pounds but apparently he likes nothing more

than a good root round a pile of rubbish.


The Beatle turned rag and bone man says he can’t walk past a pile of junk without looking for any

discarded valuables.


He said: “I’m the kind of guy who doesn’t like to see things in skips. I go past a skip and I’ll

say, ‘I could use that. That’s a cupboard, that’s a nice bit of wood.’”

“I’ll see a rubbish heap and see an odd bit of a bicycle or something and think, ‘Picasso’s

Bull’s Head.’”


“I’ll think, ‘Interesting shape that,’ because he used the bike seat, didn’t he. Only last

night I saw some stuff in a skip and had to be pulled away.”


However, it doesn’t sound as if Macca is very good at his new obsession.

He went on to The Sun: “I found a white pillow case with a zip. It had paint stains on it from a

house painter. I also found a nice yellow beaker.”


“I found a real sponge in the Caribbean too. I stepped on it to see if it was still spongy and it

was. So I rinsed it out and it went in the pillow case and I use that for washing the sailboat.”