If “When I’m Sixty-Four” sounds so simple a child could have written it, that’s what kind of happened. A very young Paul McCartney wrote the original version of this bouncy tune at the family piano ...
When Paul McCartney was a teenager, he wrote a song that looked decades into his future. “When I’m Sixty-Four” appeared on The Beatles’ 1967 album Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Heart’s Club Band. Years after ...
The song was released when John Lennon was 26, Paul McCartney was 24 and I was 11. “When I’m 64” was introduced to huge success in May of 1967, The Social Security Administration, restaurants with ...
According to the story, McCartney wrote this song when was 16 and forgot about it until his father turned 64, which happened to be as the Beatles were recording 'Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.
McCartney grew up in a working-class family in Liverpool, England. While they couldn’t afford the latest and state-of-the-art instruments, his family had a piano in his house, which his dad played ...
The Beatles‘ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, which Rolling Stone named as the best album of all time, turns 50 on June 1st. In honor of the anniversary, and coinciding with a new deluxe reissue ...
What would have been different about The Beatles’ ”When I’m Sixty-Four” if Paul McCartney wrote it during another time in his life 2006 was an interesting year for Paul. The Los Angeles Times reports ...
Q: Ever since The Beatles released their first song, I’ve been an avid fan. Fifty years later, they are still my favorite band. I have a question about the song "When I’m Sixty-Four." Is there any ...
A 14-year-old Paul McCartney penned the beginnings of what would become “When I’m Sixty Four.” Though he was a ways away from hitting that milestone when he wrote it, it feels markedly tender now that ...
Paul McCartney has spent decades crafting some of the most beloved songs in music history, but even legends have regrets.