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 ...
Paul McCartney said The Beatles’ “When I’m Sixty-Four” was meant to be a joke. In addition, he explained how The Beatles’ producer changed the song to give it some vitality. Notably, the tune was the ...
The book Lennon Remembers contains an article from 1970. In it, John was asked what he expected to do in the next three months. “I’d like to just vanish a bit,” he said. It wore me out, New York. I ...
Read how Paul McCartney's father's jazz-band past inspired the "rooty-tooty" style of the Beatles' "When I'm Sixty-Four." The elder McCartney got his showbiz start like his son: playing workmen’s ...
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 ...
PRAIRIETOWN — Beatles fans of all ages can walk down memory lane — and Abbey Road — at this annual festival this weekend. “When I’m 64 Festival,” from noon-8:30 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 11, with seven ...