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 ...

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 ...

In April or May of 1956, a 14-year-old Paul McCartney started contemplating his future self and what it would be like one day, when he was in his 60s. Written inside McCartney’s family home at 20 ...

Paul McCartney wrote the song, “When I’m Sixty-Four” at the age of 16 and later recorded it in 1966. I have listened to it most of my life. I remember reciting the lyrics in my youth, thinking of the ...

I was just 10 years old when Paul McCartney wrote “When I’m Sixty-Four.” I remember it well. I was in primary school in England, where every Thursday during the lunch hour we’d be treated to a “disco” ...

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 ...