Solo Sir Paul McCartney stuns rail passengers

HE’S a music icon and an actual billionaire - but this candid snap of Beatles legend Sir Paul McCartney shows the 75-year-old musician in a new light.

SIR Paul McCartney has stunned rail passengers in the UK after hopping on a train without any form of security.

The Beatles star was spotted on-board a train travelling from London to Hastings and seemed pretty relaxed as he kicked back in the small First Class carriage, The Sun reports.

Despite topping Forbes’ Richest Musicians list last year, there was not a bodyguard in sight as the train left Kings Cross station.

Sir Paul’s fellow passengers couldn’t believe their eyes as he then got out an old school Nokia mobile phone from his pocket.

There’s a Beatle on the train! Picture: SWNS / MEGA

After checking for texts and calls, the world famous musician began reading the paper.

The scenes were a far cry from Sir Paul’s Beatles heyday, where he was unable to step foot out of the door without being mobbed by screaming fans.

During his career, 72-year-old Sir Paul has sold a staggering 500 million albums worldwide.

The musician’s worth is estimated at a whopping $1.2 billion.

Sir Paul recently gave a candid interview about his time in The Beatles.

To celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the album Sgt Pepper, he opened up to The Sun and admitted there was a time when he had become disillusioned by it all.

Sir Paul on stage — the music icon has just announced his first Australian tour in decades. Picture: Getty

Speaking about how he and his band mates felt by the 90s, Sir Paul confessed: “We were fed up with being Beatles.

“We really hated that f***ing four little mop-top boys approach.

“We were not boys, we were men. It was all gone, all that boy s**t, all that screaming, we didn’t want it any more.

The Beatles in 1964. Picture: Getty

“Plus, we’d got turned on to pot and thought of ourselves as artists rather than just performers.”

Last month, Sir Paul showed his support to the people of Manchester following the horrific bomb attack at an Ariana Grande concert.

This story originally appeared on The Sun and is republished here with permission.