"Hope I die before I get old," Roger Daltrey of "The Who" and many other rockers used to say – before finding out there might be some delights yet ahead.
Not so the Beatles. Each in his own way envisioned a peaceful faraway future – and none with as much public enthusiasm as Paul McCartney, who 39 years ago began singing "When I'm 64" on the landmark 1967 album, "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band."
"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?" he sang, painting an idyllic view of a pleasant, settled-in life. "Will you still need me, will you still feed me, When I'm sixty-four..."
--CBS News
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/...n1719957.shtml
Happy Birthday, Sir Paul.
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