

Personnel per MacDonald except where noted Notes Robert Burns, Henry MacKenzie, and Frank Reidy – two clarinets, bass clarinet.Paul McCartney – vocal, backing vocal, bass, piano.If "When I'm Sixty-Four" had been issued as a B-side, it probably would not have appeared on Sgt. The single did not make #1 in the UK, breaking a string of #1 singles going back to 1963. Instead, Martin decided on a double-A-sided-disc. The song was nearly released on a single as the B-side with either " Strawberry Fields Forever" or " Penny Lane" as the A-side. McCartney says, "I wanted to appear younger, but that was just to make it more rooty-tooty just lift the key because it was starting to sound turgid." Release Martin remembers that McCartney suggested this change in order to make his voice sound younger. The Beatles recorded the song in C major but the master take was sped up in order to raise the key by one semitone at the insistence of McCartney. The clarinets were recorded on 21 December. There were multiple overdub sessions, including the lead vocal by McCartney on 8 December and backing vocals by McCartney, Lennon, and George Harrison on 20 December. The song was recorded on 6 December 1966, during one of the first sessions for the as-yet-unnamed album that became Sgt. this was just one that was quite a hit with us." In his 1980 interview for Playboy he said, "I would never even dream of writing a song like that." Recording We just stuck a few more words on it like 'grandchildren on your knee' and 'Vera, Chuck and Dave'. Lennon said of the song, "Paul wrote it in the Cavern days. Pepper in December 1966 because his father turned 64 earlier that year. Both George Martin and Mark Lewisohn thought that McCartney may have thought of the song when recording began for Sgt. The Beatles used it in the early days as a song they could play when the amplifiers broke down or the electricity went off. Although the theme is aging, it was one of the first songs McCartney wrote, when he was sixteen. The song is sung by a young man to his lover, and is about his plans of growing old together with her. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.Īccording to Ian MacDonald, the song was "aimed chiefly at parents, and as a result got a cool reception from the group's own generation." Composition It was released in 1967 on their album Sgt. It was written by Paul McCartney (credited to Lennon/McCartney). " When I'm Sixty-Four" is a love song by The Beatles.

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