So I don’t want to break the hearts of anyone that’s been on a hiking trip in Alaska for the past couple of weeks, but Michael Jackson has died. Now he has left us with his legacy as well as non stop TV bombardment of his life. I get it, people are big fans and all. I on the other hand am a little burnt out on it. I have watched a bit and I will admit that all the weirdness about him at the end, did make me forget how great a musician he was.

Today I found an article in Rolling Stone that addresses something that I’ve been thinking about ever since Jacko went tits up. Wouldn’t it be awesome if he left the Beatles songs to Paul McCartney in his will?

Now in case you didn’t know, Michael Jackson owned all the royalties to the Beatles songs. He had bought them when they went up for auction, outbidding both Paul McCartney and Yoko Ono in the process. McCartney and Jackson had been good friends for awhile. The pair even collaborated together on the eighties hits The Girl is Mine and Say Say Say. The craziest part is that it was McCartney himself that told Jackson that song royalties was a good investment. I remember McCartney recounting in an interview that Jackson had told him “I’m gonna buy your songs”. At the time McCartney thought he was joking and laughed it off.

Of course Michael Jackson never jokes around. McCartney was pissed as hell when his supposed pal then went and outbid him for his own songs. Recently the rumor came out, even before Michael died, that he was going to leave his stake in the Beatles royalties to McCartney. Now that his will has been unearthed, we can see that those reports were false. Michael Jackson was unable to redeem himself in death.

Then reports came out that McCartney was pissed off about it. He then had to go and refute those reports, but I think I sense a wee bit of bitterness in the englishman’s tone.

“Some time ago, the media came up with the idea that Michael Jackson was going to leave his share in the Beatles songs to me in his will which was completely made up and something I didn’t believe for a second. Now the report is that I am devastated to find that he didn’t leave the songs to me. This is completely untrue,” McCartney writes. “I had not thought for one minute that the original report was true and therefore, the report that I’m devastated is also totally false, so don’t believe everything you read folks!”

“Though Michael and I drifted apart over the years, we never really fell out, and I have fond memories of our time together.”

The way this sounds to me is that McCartney knew that Michael Jackson was too much of a piece of shit to leave him his royalties back so of course he didn’t expect it to happen. Now don’t go and throw one of your hissy fits Michael Jackson fans, I’m just talking about the vibe I get from Sir Paul. I can assure you he’s trying to be as nice as possible when he’s talking about a guy who just died. I can assure you that he’s toning it down, way down. He’s English on top of that and you know how they try and polite things up to the utmost as well. I can tell the guy’s pissed off and he has ever right to be.

It turns out that Michael was in big time debt, and yes those songs are quite a valuable asset to have, but I think his own songs are going to be more than enough to not leave his children with ANY of that debt. It would have been quite the honorable thing for Michael to have left Paul those songs.

So with all this praise that’s going on about Michael, I thought I’d bring up something that wasn’t so nice. Obviously no one cares about the whole child molester stuff, but the man was a bad friend. Everything in this world can’t be strictly business. McCartney was supposed to be his friend and then the bastard went and stabbed him in the back.

Since McCartney’s too dam polite, or too dam English, to say it. I’m gonna go ahead and say it for him. Fuck you Michael Jackson. Your an asshole of a friend and stabbed my ass in the fuckin back. I knew you too well to even think that you would return the songs, that I poured my life into, to me. I’d tell you to kiss my pasty white ass, but I think you’d enjoy that too much!