McCartney learns what it's like to be 64

[norml]

Sat 17 Jun 2006

McCartney learns what it's like to be 64
By Adrian Croft


Paul McCartney performs during the 48th annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles February 8, 2006. As a young Beatle, Paul McCartney wondered what it would be like to be 64. On Sunday he will know. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson.

LONDON (Reuters) - As a young Beatle, Paul McCartney wondered what it would be like to be 64. On Sunday he will know.

But far from the enduring love he described when, as a teenager, he wrote the Beatles' classic "When I'm Sixty-Four", McCartney finds his life in turmoil after he and second wife Heather Mills decided to separate after a four-year marriage.

The separation is being played out in the full glare of publicity as intense as anything McCartney experienced during his days as a member of the world's most famous rock group.

Mills, 38, has been the subject of a torrent of tabloid allegations about her past life and has pledged to sue one British newspaper.

"One of the worst aspects of going through what Heather and I are currently going through is the malicious spreading of rumours and made-up facts that is happening in some areas of the media," McCartney said in a recent message on his Web site.


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http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=893912006

[norml]

1. Where's the love?

[Arugula Latte]

2. I remember when I was a kid I calculated when Paul would turn 64.

2006 seemed incredibly far in the future ... like it would never happen.

[Floogeldy]

3. Paul did not write "When I'm Sixty-Four" as a "teenager."

Whoever wrote that article needs to do a little more research.

[mwb970]

5. Are you sure? Every source I can find agrees on this.

One example:

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McCartney didn't equate old age with death in "When I'm Sixty-Four," but his song is nonetheless revealing in the way it views the autumn years from a spring chicken's perspective. The ex-Beatle has told interviewers he wrote the song when he was "about 16," placing it in the late-'50s, eight or so years before the Beatles finally recorded it for their landmark album "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band."

The Beatles actually used to perform it in their earliest years when they were playing clubs in England and Hamburg, Germany. "When the power would go out and they didn't have anything to amplify their stuff, that's the song they would play on their acoustic guitars," said Gregory Alexander, aka "Professor MopTop" on Chicago radio station WXRT-FM's Sunday morning "Breakfast With the Beatles" show.

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http://www.austin360.com/music/content/music/stories/2006/06/17paul.html

[Beware the Beast Man]

7. Snap!!!

;)

[asthmaticeog]

6. Um, yes he did. nt

[bumblebee1]

4. It's great Paul lived long enough to be 64.

John Lennon, George Harrison and scores of other rock n rollers didn't get that chance.