Many people would like to see Paul McCartney’s head on a platter for the atrocious solo material he’s put out since The Beatles split up almost 40 years ago, but I doubt many expected to see it end up in a train station bin. But that is where a homeless man found it, and he’s been given a £2,000 reward for his trouble.

Last week saw Paul McCartney’s waxwork head left on a train by someone who was supposed to be giving it safe passage to London to be sold at auction. Joby Carter lost the wax head, which had been on display at Louis Tussauds museum in Great Yarmouth, on Thursday, and offered a reward for its safe return.

That safe return has now been secured, with the NME reporting that a homeless man by the name of Anthony Silva returned the head to its rightful owner after finding it in a bin at Reading train station.

He claimed the £2,000 reward for returning it, which for a homeless man has got to be an absolute fortune (that’s a lot of bottles of whiskey).

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Paul McCartney’s relationship problems have been rather well publicised over the last few years, with Heather Mills nabbing the multi-millionaire and managing to wheedle her way to a proportion of his hard-earned fortune in a long-running and acrimonious divorce battle.

You’d imagine that little experience would have put McCartney off women for a while but no chance, as he’s already embarking on another dalliance with the opposite sex, this time with US socialite Nancy Shevell.

But any thoughts that this was just a fling or friendship seem to be dashed after he apparently declared his love for her last week.

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Paul McCartney has had a mixed last few years, having been married to Heather Mills, and then going through a very messy, very public divorce.

While all of this was going on, he was still writing and recording music, and released Memory Almost Full in 2007.

The album has already sold 100,000 copies in the UK, but now everyone who wants a copy can do so for free, as it’s being given away with every copy of The Mail On Sunday tomorrow, May 18th.

The give-away was announced a couple of weeks ago, and I first read the news on fellow b5 blog The Beatles Invasion. I decided to wait until now to tell of my readers so that they wouldn’t forget about it and miss out on their copy.

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Paul McCartney finally managed to get rid of the “one-legged bitch”, (his words not mine allegedly) Heather Mills last month, when she was awarded almost $50 million to shut up and go away.

Although she seems to be determined to keep herself in the press by bitching about McCartney at every opportunity, he seems to be determined to move on, and to that end, is planning a huge world tour, probably to get away from her, and help pay the divorce settlement bill.

According to the NME, the tour is being planned for Autumn of this year, with countries being visited including the UK, the USA, Canada and Australia.

It’s claimed that McCartney’s representatives have been busy meeting concert promoters around the world to set up the tour. The 50,000 capacity Halifax Common venue in Nova Scotia, Canada, is thought to be a definite on the list of venues.

The tour dates are set to be finalised and announced in May.

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Ah The Beatles, they were great weren’t they? Probably the best band in the world ever, and the inspiration for a ton of music which has come and gone since.

So you’d think life would be pretty sweet for the former members of the group, well Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr at least, seeing as the other two are dead and all.

But it seems only one of the two is happy to be a former Beatle right now, and with all the gossip swilling around at the moment, it’s probably not the one you think it is.

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The Brit Awards are being held tonight at Earl’s Court in London between 8pm and 10pm GMT. They will be presented by Sharon and Ozzy Osbourne, and while Brit Music Scene won’t actually be present at the event, we will be live blogging it all from the comfort of our armchair.

The nominations were announced back in January, and you can check them out in full here, and then decide who you think deserves to win an award for their efforts over the past year.

I personally hope Mark Ronson, Mika, Take That, Arctic Monkeys and Muse all walk away as winners, but unfortunately its not up to me alone.

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The nominations for this year’s Brit awards have been revealed, and the wealth of nominees prove conclusively what a great year for British music 2007 was.

The Brit awards ceremony will be held at Earl’s Court in London on February 20th, and be hosted by Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne.

The front runners for awards this year are Leona Lewis, Mika, and Take That, all of whom are up for four awards each.

Arctic Monkeys, Kaiser Chiefs, Kate Nash and Mark Ronson are all up for three awards each, while Mercury Music Prize winners Klaxons will be fighting for two.

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The Heather Mills Versus Paul McCartney battle is doomed never to end, with the latest being a report in the News of the World newspaper claiming Paul called Heather “a one legged bitch”.

In her recent train wreck interview on GMTV, she claimed she had a box of evidence about her ill treatment at the hands of Paul and his family, that would be passed on to a certain person if anything were to happen to her. She was clearly suggesting that Paul or some of his people were out to get her and she feared for her safety.

Now a friend of Heather Mills has supposedly told the newspaper:

“There are other recordings Heather says prove Paul referred to her as a ‘one-legged bitch’. She’s hoping this shows people what she’s had to put up with, and will let the public make up their own mind about who was to blame for their split.”

There are also claims in the report of a recording existing of a phone call in which Paul’s daughter Stella is heard ranting “I hope you lose your other f***ing leg!”

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