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When I get older: Paul McCartney going strong at 80
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Paul McCartney introduces Foo Fighters during the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony in Cleveland, Ohio, US October 30, 2021. (Reuters/Gaelen Morse)
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aul McCartney turns 80 on Saturday and a week later becomes the oldest headliner to play at the Glastonbury Festival. There's even been talk of the ex-Beatle being made a lord before the year is out.
Not bad for a kid from a working-class family in Liverpool after almost 60 years topping the charts.
Between his years with the Fab Four, his work with Wings and his solo career, McCartney has written or co-written more than 50 top 10 singles.
During lockdown in 2020, "Macca", as he is affectionately known, recorded "McCartney III" on his own and it became his first UK solo number one album since 1989.
McCartney and The Beatles returned to the spotlight last year thanks to director Peter Jackson's eight-hour documentary "Get Back" about the making of their 1970 album "Let It Be".
With a string of 80th birthday events planned in Liverpool, British media have reported that McCartney could be made a peer of the realm -- 25 years after he was first knighted.
'Grandude'
