Sir Paul McCartney has taken his meat-free campaign even further for his Canadian tour date in regina, by banning animal food products from his rider.
The vegan Beatles legend has asked all workers helping to set up his performance at the Mosaic Stadium, be given a vegetarian menu, according to Canadian Press.
The nutritional terms was reportedly one of the conditions for Sir Paul, 71, to perform in the province of Saskatchewan.
McCartney has been a lifelong supporter of animal rights, ever since his wife Linda – who wrote her own veggie cookbooks and is remembered through her vegan-friendly food range – converted him to vegetarianism in 1975.
And this isn’t the first time the singer has made sure his rider – a set of requests or demands that a performer sets as criteria for performance – is animal-friendly.
According to the Smoking Gun, McCartney’s demanded no furniture in his dressing room was made of any animal products, during his 2002 Driving USA tour.
‘It is crucial you do not provide furniture made of any animal skin or print,’ the rider reads. ‘Do not provide artificial versions of animal skin or print either. Only animal free materials are excepted. (cottons, denims, velour, etc.)’
And while Sir Paul has been touring around the world, he is getting set to win back the rights to The Beatles songs.
The veteran rocker lost ownership of the publishing rights to the songs he co-wrote with late bandmate John Lennon.
Sir Paul was furious when his former friend Michael Jackson outbid him to buy the Associated Television Corporation (ATV)’s back catalogue, which includes The Beatles’ tracks, in 1985.
The King Of Pop paid a reported $47.5million for between 160 and 260 Beatles classics, including Yesterday and Let It Be.