Paul McCartney is 64 today
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Now he's 64: Paul McCartney celebrates that birthday
by Olivier Lucazeau
Sat Jun 17, 11:54 AM ET
LONDON (AFP) - Paul McCartney was just 24 when The Beatles first recorded their hit track "When I'm 64". Forty years on, and the former Beatle will finally find out the answers to the long list of questions contained in the song when he celebrates his birthday on Sunday.
Born in Liverpool in 1942, James Paul McCartney was still a teenager when he wrote the famous song, one of The Beatles' best-known, which was later included on the "Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" in 1967.
Today he and drummer Ringo Starr are the only living Beatles.
But McCartney's birthday celebrations are likely to be very different from the cosy but ordinary existence he imagined in the song, whose lyrics include the lines "we could rent a cottage on the Isle of Wight, if it's not too dear" and "you can knit a sweater by the fireside, Sunday mornings go for a ride".
McCartney's first wife, Linda, died of cancer in 1998 at the age of 56 after 29 years of marriage. And a month ago, he announced the end of his marriage to his second wife, Heather Mills, 38.
The singer-songwriter has not spoken about the details of the separation, although British journalists have not been so discreet.
Mills' lawyer recently announced that once the divorce is complete, his client plans to sue over allegations about her past life made in the tabloid press.
The British Daily Mirror newspaper said McCartney planned to celebrate his birthday on Sunday at his home in Peasmarsh in Sussex, southern England, with his two elder daughters, Stella, the renowned fashion designer, and Mary, a photographer.
The famously down-to-earth former Beatle is expected to take his usual place in front of the barbecue, accompanied by his son James, his adopted daughter Heather and his brother Mike.
Mills may also be there -- the tabloid reported that she hoped to be with her future ex-husband and their daughter, Bea, two, on fathers' day, which Britain celebrates on Sunday.
But McCartney, a major celebrity who has sold more than 400 million records and had more than 50 number ones, probably wouldn't have any problem affording the rent on that cottage in the Isle of Wight. His personal fortune is estimated at 825 million pounds (1.2 billion euros, 1.5 billion dollars).
Nonetheless, while he may not yet be losing his hair, McCartney does bear some resemblance to the figure he describes in his famous song.
He has three grandchildren, although unlike those in the song they are not called Vera, Chuck and Dave. And he has always lived a relatively simple life, in which "doing the garden, digging the weeds" would not be entirely out of place.
But the answer to the question "will you still be sending me a valentine, birthday greetings, bottle of wine?" will, it seems, probably be no.
Now he's 64: Paul McCartney celebrates that birthday
by Olivier Lucazeau
Sat Jun 17, 11:54 AM ET
LONDON (AFP) - Paul McCartney was just 24 when The Beatles first recorded their hit track "When I'm 64". Forty years on, and the former Beatle will finally find out the answers to the long list of questions contained in the song when he celebrates his birthday on Sunday.
Born in Liverpool in 1942, James Paul McCartney was still a teenager when he wrote the famous song, one of The Beatles' best-known, which was later included on the "Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" in 1967.
Today he and drummer Ringo Starr are the only living Beatles.
But McCartney's birthday celebrations are likely to be very different from the cosy but ordinary existence he imagined in the song, whose lyrics include the lines "we could rent a cottage on the Isle of Wight, if it's not too dear" and "you can knit a sweater by the fireside, Sunday mornings go for a ride".
McCartney's first wife, Linda, died of cancer in 1998 at the age of 56 after 29 years of marriage. And a month ago, he announced the end of his marriage to his second wife, Heather Mills, 38.
The singer-songwriter has not spoken about the details of the separation, although British journalists have not been so discreet.
Mills' lawyer recently announced that once the divorce is complete, his client plans to sue over allegations about her past life made in the tabloid press.
The British Daily Mirror newspaper said McCartney planned to celebrate his birthday on Sunday at his home in Peasmarsh in Sussex, southern England, with his two elder daughters, Stella, the renowned fashion designer, and Mary, a photographer.
The famously down-to-earth former Beatle is expected to take his usual place in front of the barbecue, accompanied by his son James, his adopted daughter Heather and his brother Mike.
Mills may also be there -- the tabloid reported that she hoped to be with her future ex-husband and their daughter, Bea, two, on fathers' day, which Britain celebrates on Sunday.
But McCartney, a major celebrity who has sold more than 400 million records and had more than 50 number ones, probably wouldn't have any problem affording the rent on that cottage in the Isle of Wight. His personal fortune is estimated at 825 million pounds (1.2 billion euros, 1.5 billion dollars).
Nonetheless, while he may not yet be losing his hair, McCartney does bear some resemblance to the figure he describes in his famous song.
He has three grandchildren, although unlike those in the song they are not called Vera, Chuck and Dave. And he has always lived a relatively simple life, in which "doing the garden, digging the weeds" would not be entirely out of place.
But the answer to the question "will you still be sending me a valentine, birthday greetings, bottle of wine?" will, it seems, probably be no.
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~it is shining it is shining~
Thanks for being a part of my life through your music.
I wish you the best. 64 and still going strong.
You’re on the outside, never bound by such a spell.
Together in the darkness, alone in the light.
I took it upon me to be yours, Timmy,
I’ll lead your angels and demons at play tonight......»
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