Paul McCartney Ain´t Down With MJ No More

McCartney Calls Michael Jackon 'Unusual'

Paul McCartney thinks his one-time close friend Michael Jackson is an "unusual guy" and wonders about his parenting skills. During a recent interview with the BBC, McCartney said he felt sorry for Jackson's children, "being brought up under those veils." He said his philosophy about raising children was the opposite of the private, sheltered life of Jackson's two children. McCartney said, "I was keen to send my kids to ordinary school and just throw them into the lion's den."

McCartney and Jackson were friends in the 1980s and even recorded two hit duets together in 1983--the Number One song, "Say Say Say" and the Number Two "The Girl Is Mine." When Jackson purchased the publishing rights to a large portion of the Beatles' song catalog, the relationship between the two superstars became strained.

There have also been rumors in the British press that McCartney's second wife, Heather, whom he married last year, is now pregnant. However, a spokesperson for McCartney told the New York Daily News that in the British papers "Heather has been pregnant seven times in the last four months."