Paul McCartney’s Fury Over Rigged Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame

The moving tribute delivered by Paul McCartney inducting his old writing partner and Beatles bandmate John Lennon into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame was a sham!

A new book reviewed by The National ENQUIRER reveals the only reason Paul agreed to appear at the 1994 (alongside Lennon's son Sean and wife Yoko Ono) ceremony was because Hall of Fame founder Jann Wenner guaranteed the weed-loving Wings-man would be inducted the following year!

But McCartney wound up feeling like a "Fool on the Hill" after Wenner (right) — who promised the honor to Paul in return for inducting Lennon — double-crossed him, according to "Sticky Fingers," a new biography of the Rolling Stone publisher by Joe Hagan.

When Wenner didn’t admit Paul in 1995, the lovable mop top got spitting mad! “I rang Jann and said, ‘I’m getting all the papers — I don’t appear to be in. You $%#&@ bastard!” says Paul in the book.

Amazingly, Wenner didn’t make good on his promise the next year — or the year after that! It would be four long years before Paul finally got his individual plaque in the Hall of Fame — after his beloved wife, Linda, died of breast cancer.

“She really wanted this!” Paul said sadly, holding up his Hall trophy. The couple’s daughter Stella was less kind: She wore a T-shirt that read, “It’s About $%#&@ Time!”