The Beatles Song Of The Day is “When I’m Sixty-Four.” “When I’m Sixty-Four” appears on The Beatles “Sgt.Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” album. The song was written by Paul McCartney. Paul wrote the melody when he was 15 years old on the piano at the McCartney home on Forthlin Road, Liverpool. At that time Paul looked at the tune as being written out of respect for the music of the twenties and thirties. At the time of Sgt.Pepper, Paul dusted the tune off and with his father in mind wrote the song. Jim McCartney was 64 at the time. John didn’t care too much for the tune. claiming he would never write anything like that. John Lennon: backing vocal and guitar/ Paul McCartney: vocal, piano and bass guitar/ George Harrison: backing vocal/ Ringo Starr: drums and bells/ Robert Burns, Henry MacKenzie and Frank Reidy: clarinets. The song was recorded on December 6th,8th, 20th and 21st, 1966 at Abbey Road. Producer: George Martin.

Rating “When I’m Sixty-Four” on a scale of 1 to 5 stars ****

• “When I’m Sixty-Four” did not make Rolling Stone Magazine’s “The Beatles 100 Greatest Songs’ list or Spignesi and Lewis’ “100 Best Beatles Songs’ list.
• Length of song 2:37.
• “When I”m Sixty-Four” was nearly released as a b-side for either “Strawberry Fields Forever” or “Penny Lane” but they decided to make that a double A side single and put “When I’m Sixty-Four” on “Sgt.Pepper” instead.

When I’m Sixty Four {Lennon-McCartney}