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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

I turn 64 in two days, which means I’ll finally be as old as the guy in that Beatles song. Here’s what those lyrics mean to me these days, and please, sing along if you can: When I get older, losing ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...