Kevin's Watch

Paul McCartney turns Sixty-Four on Sunday.

When I get older losing my hair,
Many years from now.
Will you still be sending me a valentine
Birthday greetings bottle of wine.
If I'd been out till quarter to three
Would you lock the door,
Will you still need me, will you still feed me,
When I'm sixty-four.
You'll be older too,
And if you say the word,
I could stay with you.
I could be handy, mending a fuse
When your lights have gone.
You can knit a sweater by the fireside
Sunday mornings go for a ride,
Doing the garden, digging the weeds,
Who could ask for more.
Will you still need me, will you still feed me,
When I'm sixty-four.
Every summer we can rent a cottage,
In the Isle of Wight, if it's not too dear
We shall scrimp and save
Grandchildren on your knee
Vera Chuck & Dave
Send me a postcard, drop me a line,
Stating point of view
Indicate precisely what you mean to say
Yours sincerely, wasting away
Give me your answer, fill in a form
Mine for evermore
Will you still need me, will you still feed me,
When I'm sixty-four.

Happy Birthday!

Thank you x 64 for reminding me of this! I'd be a bad Beatles fan if that passed me by! I'll play the song (we know which one) this Sunday in celebration.

While I like Lennon's confessional lyrics and sense of rock better, I definitely gotta hand it to Paul for the production-melody-medley-crafting God that he is. Such an honor to be living in his time. Like being across the street from Beethoven or something. Well, okay, not that cool, but!

Apparently his family recorded their own version for his birthday, changing lyrics somewhat.

Lord Foul wrote: While I like Lennon's confessional lyrics and sense of rock better, I definitely gotta hand it to Paul for the production-melody-medley-crafting God that he is. Such an honor to be living in his time. Like being across the street from Beethoven or something. Well, okay, not that cool, but!

Funny thing is that "Sir" Paul would just be the sort of filthy rich patron of the arts that Ludwig van in his day would be getting commissions from.

Regarding McCartney's post-Beatles stuff, my familiarity with it rests almost solely on the Wings Greatest album, which my sis and I played to death back in the day. As an 8 or 9-year old, I was enthralled by, as you say, the production-melody-medley brilliance of McCartney. I never listened to any of his other material, because I played Wings Greatest so much that I got essentially burned out on McCartney. Also, by the early '80s other music was captivating me.

I'm aware that McCartney's latest album, Chaos and Creation in the Backyard, has gotten rave reviews, but after listening to it myself I'm sorry to say I don't get what all the fuss is about. The fact that McCartney got Radiohead studio wizard Nigel Godrich to work on the album didn't add up to much, in my opinion.

Well, maybe his energy just isn't there in the music anymore...he'd rather spend it on trips around the world, dissing countries like Canada. I'm sure occasional hiccups like a marriage dissolution won't stop him either. (As in Heather 'I got half of Paul's moolah ha ha!" Mills). Sorry, I'm being nasty. Heh.

McCartney's music is a constant source of inspiration to me; he is quite an innovative bassist!