McCartney plays the perfect birthday gig

A PAUL McCARTNEY fan received the birthday present of a lifetime on Saturday night when her husband hired the musician himself to play at her 50th birthday party for one million dollars.

Financier Ralph Whitworth invited the former Beatle to play a personal show for his wife, Wendy, a TV executive, at a party in San Diego, California. McCartney accepted the offer on condition that he could donate the fee to Adopt-A-Minefield, the anti-landmines charity backed by him and his wife, Heather Mills McCartney.

This was the first private concert McCartney has ever performed.