SIR PAUL McCARTNEY has given a huge snub to WILL YOUNG –
refusing point-blank to a duet at Buckingham Palace.
Will’s 19 Management, headed by SIMON FULLER, were
confident Macca would sing with the POP IDOL winner at the Party In The Palace
celebrating the Queen’s Golden Jubilee this summer.
But the former Beatle turned them down flat.
A concert insider told The Sun: “Will is a big Fab Four
fan and was thrilled when Simon had the idea of them singing together.
“They went to Paul’s people expecting to get the green
light — after all, Will has just won the biggest search for a star contest ever
launched in this country.
“But his management came back and said Sir Paul was dead
against it.”
Sources say the rejection came straight from Macca, who is
on tour in the US but due back for the June 3 bash in London.
He has told pals he does not believe in Pop Idol and wants
nothing to do with it.
The star recently said he hated today’s charts,
complaining it was mostly “synthetic music, boy bands and a lot of girls not
wearing much”.
Ironically Sir Paul is set to make as much as £1million
from the TV talent show’s huge success.
He owns the publishing rights to runner-up GARETH GATES’s
No1 — THE RIGHTEOUS BROTHERS’s Unchained Melody — and is quids in every time
the song is played.
Meanwhile, Will, Gareth and fellow Pop Idol finalist
Darius Danesh have been made ambassadors for the Prince's Trust to work on
youth causes.
Ó The Sun