Denny Laine is sick. What should Sir Macca do?

I of course hope Dennys gets better, and I do hope Paul already has or will soon help out financially.

At what point can Paul not have to worry about the financial struggles of everyone he has been associated with?

As I said, both people involved in those past or current relationships, as well as people that are just spectators, surely all have different levels of empathy and sympathy.

Paul (as far as I know) doesn't *owe* Denny Laine anything. Denny was a bandmate and friend for a good decade. That may or may not mean anything to Paul at this stage.

*If* he helped Denny, it would be a kind, magnanimous gesture.

Paul paid for Neil Aspinall's treatments in 2007. No, Neil and Denny did not/do not have the same type of relationship with Paul. But Paul didn't owe Neil anything either.

I don't see anything weird about just saying I hope Paul helps Denny. Paul can afford it, Denny would need it. Maybe it would be a healing moment, maybe not. Maybe Paul doesn't need or want a healing moment. Heck, maybe *Denny* doesn't either! Maybe Paul sees no reason to step in. Maybe he would send money and still not really engage in an ongoing relationship/conversation. Lots of options. If Paul didn't or doesn't help Denny, that also would not make Paul a bad person or anything.

The only thing I would add is that I don't think anybody needs to worry about "people hitting up Paul McCartney for money." I think it probably very rarely happens (outside of his closest family members, who probably would never need to ask in the first place), and if it did, Paul's a big boy and can handle it. And also, to the degree it matters, he'd have to give a whole lotta people a whole lotta money before it made ANY actual financial impact on him. Millions and millions and millions and millions.

But I don't think most of that would even be at play. I don't know anybody that wealthy, and I don't run in circles with a bunch of wealthy people. But I know people who know very wealthy people, and I know people who know Paul's (and other very wealthy folks') situation very well, and I can say that when you're THAT wealthy, it's *very easy* to insulate yourself as much as you need so that, by and large on a day to day basis, nothing you don't want to happen/experience/deal with is ever thrust upon you. In other words, the type of people that would actually "hit Paul up" for money would rarely or never be able to get to him directly to even ask.

I'm not saying there's zero benefit to Paul helping someone and asking them to keep it quiet. Certainly if someone wanted to play a bit of hard ball and wanted to get money from Paul, they could *try* to guilt him publicly. But that would go sideways for all sorts of reasons.

So I think if Paul helps or doesn't, that's something that has to be okay. But out of the myriad of things to worry about, Paul giving money to someone and then being hit up for money from others is *not* something that I think would ever be an issue, and certainly not one worth anybody worrying about.

Au contraire. People like Paul are hit up CONTINUALLY. I know people who are quite rich and they endure an endless string of pitches and requests for money from acquaintances, former colleagues charities, etc.. At some point, you insert admin into the process, so that all requests are supposed to go through them. Still, some people try to circumvent the process. But someone like Paul who's both rich AND incredibly well known probably has it far worse than the people I know, who are rich, but not public figures.

You're right: Paul's a big boy, and unquestionably has a large infrastructure of people to shield him from these requests. But they're not rare.