He’s 64 today. Do we still need him? Should we still feed him?
(Thanks to Skipper Nancy for pointing out this momentous occasion.)
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He’s 64 today. Do we still need him? Should we still feed him?
(Thanks to Skipper Nancy for pointing out this momentous occasion.)
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I don’t know. Do we? Should we? Happy birthday to him.
Yay! Thanks GAPAs! Paul McCartney pwns. Great lyrics. Awesome playing. I think the world certainly still needs him, but I doubt he needs us to feed him.
Also, I just realised this- if he’s turning 64, he was born 1942
It’s amazing how perfect things are sometime, you know?
Woooooah. Yay for Paul. But I’m pretty sure that he can feed himself.
It’s sort of sad, him turning this important age, right when he is getting a divorce.
Paul McCartney serenaded Paul Simon with the song on Simon’s 64th, and he also broadcast a wake-up call for some NASA astronauts in space. It was the “Good Morning, Good Morning” track from Sgt. Pepper’s.
We need you, Mr. McCartney! You can feed yourself, though…I think he was never quite the same after Linda died.
who is Paul McCartney?
7- you odn’t know who Paul McCartney is? As in, the Beatle? As in, the so-called “cute one”?
6- Paul Simon is icky- he’s fairly cute, but he knows it and he acts like he knows it.
I personally like George better, but Paul’s still fairly good. And he’s alive, which is always a plus. So yeah, happy birthday, Macca. and many more.
Happy birthday, Sir Paul!! We love you!…
For the rock legend Paul McCartney (composer of sweet love-song, “When I’m Sixty-Four”), today is certainly a small milestone in his life. Told by his children not to be “on top of the world”, he has turned sixty-four indefinitly and all of his fans celebrate this day with him, with possibly more excitment than in the past. And with all of what he’s going through, splitting up with his wife Heather Mills of four years, it only seems proper for us to show our love and apperciation in this tough time.
So let me say just what you mean to us all, Paul. I’m sure I can account for more than myself.
Pushing aside the aesthetic label of “The Cute One” in The Beatles, you are the composer of many great works of that era: “Hey Jude”, “Let It Be”, “The Long and Winding Road”, “Blackbird”, “Eleanor Rigby”, “All My Loving”, “Here, There and Everywhere”, “Yesterday” and many others. Later came “Maybe I’m Amazed” and other sweet or rocking songs. You are a very talented musician and contributed much to the world of music not only with your partnership with the late John Lennon, but also in your solo career. Chaos and Creation In the Backyard has proved to be your most praised solo work in a long time. Still being attatched to your past by remembering The Beatles, Linda, George and John and linking that in your present (future?) compositions is a heartfelt way of keeping their candles burning for them (and all of us) in your own way.
You show an immense care for others, here or not. Playing at Live Aid alongside other beloved musicians (few parraleling yourself) and Live 8, using your talents to help others less fortunate than yourself is but one way you contribute to creating a better world for us all. The animal-rights work you did with Heather and Linda show a great concern you rightly posess for the well-being of others, even if they have always been in such horrific ways, you put yourself out to protect them and spread word. Associating yourself with such AIDS and poverty charities such as ONE and Make Poverty History also demonstrates your love and care for other members of the human race. The No More Land-Mines (you shall hopefully keep up?) is in a way carrying on John’s hope for world-peace, but also is just a fantastic way to show your view to end violence.
But that is not all: you were knighted; voted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame twice; you are the proud, loving father of four of your own children, one adopted, treating her as your own; a good friend to all; and have simply put a little joy in all of our lives.
All of us have “Macca Moments”, things of your devision that have stuck out in our memories, made our lives better or simply more enjoyable. These moments of happiness have given us all something pleasent to look bakc on. The older generations recall you in The Beatles, making your debut in America on The Ed Sullivan show; preforming to hoards of screaming and fainting teen-agers. They watched the show alongwith 17 million others, cried in joy as you strode onstage, sang to a happy love-song on the radio that topped the charts – they still love you. They have carried the torch to their chidren and grand-children, unless they have discovered (with great joy!) you all on their own. The younger ones sang and danced (and sing and dance) to a popular Wings song and we – the youngest –
explore all of what has gone before us and what you still give to us today. Be it a preformance, radio number, recording, interview or charity contribution, we have all loved and appreciated you from the start.
We still need you Paul, we still love you….And I think we HAVE been feeding you, all the profit you’ve made from touring and your new album!
Happy birthday, Sir Paul. Little could top what you’ve given to us all. We love you forever…
Also-
OBVIOUSLY we still need him!! *sighs in exasperation*
5- Yes, I feel very, very sorry for him that he’s going through this at this time….Ah, well, what can you do, huh? *cries at the depressing reality of it all8
6- Actually, they broadcasted “English Tea” from Chaos and Creation In the Backyard to the space station last summer. They also played “Good-Day Sunshine” from Revolver for the landing day of STS-114. Oh, poor Linda and poor, poor Paul for having to lose her like that…*sobs*
7- HOW DARE YOU NOT KNOW WHO SIR JAMES PAUL MCCARTNEY IS!! He was ONLY the bass player and composer for The Beatles, he was ONLY knighted a few years ago, he ONLY played at the Super Bowl last year, he ONLY wrote “Yesterday” and “Let It Be” and “Hey Jude” and “The Long and Winding Road” and “She Loves You”!! *curses*
1- YESYES!
I’m celebrating by listeing to “When I’m Sixty-Four” on repeat all day – nothing else.
Happy birthday Paul – I know I’ve said this a million times before – we still love you!!…
Also, contrary to what the post suggest, its actually today, Father’s Day, 18 June….Sorry, it was kind of bothering me.
Okat first, how is it even POSSIBLE not to know who Paul McCartney is? o.O
We still love you even if you married that dreadful woman. Hmph. I say a Lifetime movie about the relationship between Paul and his wife Linda and I can’t understand why he gets remarried. Wat happened to the whole time you were together, huh? -_-;;
But he’s a nice guy, so there’s that. Tholugh I too liked George Harrison.
w00t! Happy b-day! I had the long and winding road stuck in my head a few days ago. But then i went to sarah’s and did kareoke and now it’s B****. Which isn’t fractionally as good. Mebbe i start up the beatles now. XD Yes, we still need you, no, we won’t feed you. Mwahaha. lol jk
9-Wow. That’s loooooong…
Happy Birthday to yoouuuuu
Happy birthday to yoouuuuu
Happy BIRthDAY DEAR PAUL McCARTNY!
Happy birthday to yoooooooooooooooouuuuuuuuuuuuuuu
And many moooooooooooooooooore!!!!!
Thank you, thank you very much.
Happy birthday, Paul!
actually, I took the four portraits of the Beatles that come with the White album and put them up on my wall so now I have them staring at me.
what happened to linda?
She died in 1988 of breast cancer after fighting it bravely for many years.
I don’t like the beatles.
Right now i’m listening to “Smells Like Teen Spirt” very Very VERY LOUD!!!!!!!
Everyone in New England can hear it. And here come my parents to ground me…
Have you ever SMELLED teen spirit? I did in the locker room of my school gym. Yuck.
New england! I want to go there! I’ve never been out of my country.
YEEHAW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sorry about that…
I listened all the way through Help! Revolver, Rubber Soul, Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band and part of the White Album.
17- how can you not like The Beatles? They are like… Lavar Burton or heavily buttered toast.
well, to each their own…
18- what country do you live in? New England is in the U.S. so I’m guessing you live somewhere else. I’ve only been out of the U.S. twice and you live somewhere different. Cool
I had my dad sing “when I’m 64” for me but he stopped in the middle
“Number nine….Number nine….Number nine…” was me!!
Number twelve: NO KIDDING!!
Number sixteen: Umm, ’twas 1998, sorry, but false facts and typos like that annoy me, which is kind of ironic, because I have got to be the world’s worst typer…
Hmm, how about a birthday song, Beatles style?:
“Birthday” by John Lennon and Paul McCartney (as far as we know) of The Beatles from the The Beatles (a.k.a., The White Album) album.
You say it’s your birthday?
It’s my birthday, too – yeah
They say it’s your birthday
We’re gonna have a good time
I’m glad it’s your birthday
Happy birthday to you
Yes we’re going to a party party
Yes we’re going to a party party
Yes we’re going to a party party
I would like you to dance (birthday!)
Take a cha-cha-cha-chance (birthday!)
I would like you to dance (birthday!)
Daaaaaaaaaaaance!!
You say it’s your birthday?
It’s my birthday, too – yeah
They say it’s your birthday
Happy birthday to you
And because it’s a SPECIAL birthday for Sir Paul:
“When I’m Sixty-Four” by Paul McCartney of The Beatles from the Sgt. Pepper’s Lonly Hearts Club Band album
When I get old and losing my hair
Many years from now
Will you still be sending me Valentines, bithday greetings, bottle of wine?
If I’ve 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 handy, mendinng a fuse
When your lights have gone.
You could 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 could 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 and Dave
Send me a postcard,
Drop me a line
Statinng point of view
Indicate precisely what you mean to say
Yours sincerely, wasting away
Give me your answear, fill in a form
Mine forever more
Will you still need me
Will you still feed me
When I’m sxity-four?
Hoo!
Can we do this for George Harrison and Ringo and John Lennon, too? And Freddie Mercury’s birthday is 5 September. He would’ve been sixty. And 20 June would’ve been Ilan Ramon’s (the first Israeli in space – he died onboard STS-107 Columbia) fifty-second. 1 July would’ve been Kalpana Chawla’s forty-fith – again, she died on Columbia.
oh, that;s sad about linda…
Ringo is in a Monty Python episode.
George Harrison wrote one of my favorite Beatles songs- Taxman.
9-We also admired his self-restraint and the way he never savaged the Monkees, even though they were pathetic losers who never would have been possible without the Beatelian innovations. Do Sir Paul, Sir Mick, Sir Elton and Sir Ringo ever get together and have a round table? Because that would be really froody.
That song would never have been possible without Randy Newman. Face it. It would not have been! No one gives Newman enough credit, and Alan Gibson the same way.
Sir Mick? Sir Elton?
Oh wait. Never mind.
24- Which song?
23- Which Python episode? And I know George was the executive producer of Monty Python’s Life of Brian.
Sir Ringo? I know he (along with the rest of The Beatles) recieved a MBE in 1965….But I don’t recall hearing that he was knighted.
24- um, Ringo was never nighted. Paul was the only one of the Beatles that was.
28- yeah, they did, although John gave his back..
For those of you that don’t know the song…
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.
27-“When I’m Sixty-Four.”
The world would be a better place if people sold all of the Beatles records, and their recordings from the Hamburg years. I have to borrow my friend Robin’s (I’m at his Brussels apartment now) records and play them. I think the neighbors are getting upset-there’s a woman yelling in Norwegian, but I can’t understand what she’s saying, and I don’t think she’s talking to me because it’s muffled.
My favorite B-song is “You’re Gonna Lose That Girl.” I just like it. “Here, There, and Everywhere” is also good, and “The Hippy Hippy Shake” is so lame it’s funny.
Why didn’t they knight Ringo? Because of Pete Best, or because the manager put him in? Has anyone seen The Rutles? I LOVE THAT MOVIE!
24- Well actually, Paul wrote that when he was about 17, it was recorded when he was 25. What does Randy Newman have to do with anything? We’re obviously not giving him enough credit because: who the heck is Alan Gibson, anyway?
31- I’ve always wanted to listen to them before Eppy dressed them up in uniform, back when they were the rough Teddy-boys in Hamburg. “The Hippy Hippy Shake” sounds interesting just in the title, by the way.
32-What the zark do you mean, what does Randy Newman have to do with anything? He’s totally underrated-everyone was influenced by him but no one credits him. And go look up Alan Gibson on Wikipedia. I’ve heard the Teddy-boy years were pretty awful, but I want to hear them anyway. Poor Kinks-they got stolen from by the Beatles, and no one sympathizes.
“Killer Queen” was kind of a lame song. I dunno-I’m not the biggest Queen fan you’ll ever meet. I didn’t like what they did to Talking Heads.
Has anyone seen the movie “Backbeat”?
31- they didn’t actually knight any of the beatles except for Paul. I so think they should have done a post-whatsitcalled for John and George.. who cares that they weren’t military.
My favorite Beatles song is currently fluctuating between “Girl” and “Maggie May”. Although I also like basically all of George’s late period songs.. and Brainwashed is a pretty good album..
weeell, i guess we could keep him around a little longer. anythtngs better than elvis.
*lurks blindly*
Hey, i like Elvis. I can related to some of songs. But yesah, lets keep him around just a little bit loneger.
36-Hey, i like elvis! And the beatles. Weird me, i know. *gasp* Horror.
The hippy hippy shake is fun to freak your friends out with. The first time i heard it, i couldn’t believe my ears. After that, things got interesting. “Hey, come hear this song! It’s really cool!” “Ok *puts earphone in ear* *Beatles moosik* “You like it?” “Um…*backs away slowly*”
35-Wha? I associate “Maggie May” with Rod Stewart.
Elvis was not my thing-I love jumpsuits, but his voice was really weird. All pseudo-everything, you know?
Yoko Ono regrets the “Bed For Peace” episode. I have no idea why.
33- There’s no entry for Alan Gibson on Wiki and how do you know Paul was inspired by Randy Newman to write that, or anything, for that matter? The inspiration is known solely by the composer. And I myself am a big Kinks fan, I’m not just one of those A Hard Day’s Night girls (although I used to be and I did act uncannily like them at the concert); I enjoy a variety of bands. Also, if per chance “Killer Queen” happens to be about a man (which it just might be), I’d like to clarify that I am a girl. “Killer Queen” is a grand song, although not exactly as up to other standards Queen set, with their wonderous work in “Bohemian Rhapsody” (if you say THAT song is lame you just might BECOME a talking head!!)
But TECHNICALLY I’m “Keep Yourself Alive”. But if my name on here was “Lola” for the song, that’d give you reason to wonder.
GAPA- I’ve been wanting to see it, to get the full story, but my meager allowence and the retail/shipping/handling price on the one place I found it was TOO high. *sigh*
“Maggie May” was on the Let It Be album and is actually a Liverpudlian folksong about a prostitute on Lime Street. It wasn’t orginally going to be released, though. “Don’t Let Me Down” was orginally going to be on the album in its place.
Randy Newman is brilliant in any case. His recent songs for movie soundtracks don’t do him justice at all.
yay! so mccartney is 64
and he wrote that song
and that is so cool.
happy birthday!
gosh, i am so late
Alright, but I’m saying that he is not necessarily the sole inspiration for the song. He might’ve inspired other songs, but is the working force behind “When I’m Sixty-Four”.
nice joke!
Paul McCartney is the best. He is defienently a keeper. His more recent “solo” music is great.
37- Elvis?!?!?! Well, there’s no accounting for tastes or something…
Let it Be was a kind of strange album- it was recorded a year before it was released, so it was actually released after Abbey Road, and so much of it was Spectorized.. And then Abbey Road is a completely different mood or idea or something…
Has anyone on here besides me seen any of the Beatle movies (Hard Day’s Night, Help, yellow submarine, or magical mystery tour)? I’ve seen HDN, Help, and YS..
45- I LOVELOVELOOOOOOOOOOOVE A Hard Day’s Night, having practically memorised the script and Magical Mystery Tour is SOO funny and radical all-around….A live preformance of “I Am the Walrus” automatically makes it ROCK!! Yellow Submarine is really awesome=) Jeremy is kind of annoying, though….I haven’t managed to find Help! anywhere, though I did get a second-addition Help! book from the used-book store. I’ve also been trying to find Let It Be, despite the fact that it’s supposed to be really depressing, as they’re all fighting and such…
46- “And who’s this Susan when she’s at home?” I love that scene, with the shirts.. Help is really good, although a bit cheesy.. there’s a really good website with soundbites and deleted scenes and summarys and whatnot.. I think it’s called something like “Help is on the way” or something..
the beatles are awesome
Beatles rock. Revolution and Helte Skelter were the first metal songs.