Now he's 64: Paul McCartney celebrates that birthday

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LONDON (AFP) — Paul McCartney was just 24 when The Beatles first recorded their hit track "When I'm 64". Forty years on, and the former Beatle will finally find out the answers to the long list of questions contained in the song when he celebrates his birthday on Sunday.

Born in Liverpool in 1942, James Paul McCartney was still a teenager when he wrote the famous song, one of The Beatles' best-known, which was later included on the "Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" in 1967.

Today he and drummer Ringo Starr are the only living Beatles.

But McCartney's birthday celebrations are likely to be very different from the cosy but ordinary existence he imagined in the song, whose lyrics include the lines "we could rent a cottage on the Isle of Wight, if it's...