Sir Paul McCartney Reveals Junk Collecting Obsession

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.”