Mills' lawyer recently announced that once the divorce is complete, she plans to sue over allegations in the tabloid press that she was formerly a prostitute. In honor of Sir Paul McCartney’s birthday (June 18), Billboard looks back at his top 40 biggest songs on the Billboard Hot 100 as a solo artist and with his band Wings. The singer-songwriter has not spoken about the details of the separation, although British journalists have not been so discreet. Recorded live at Knebworth, 30 June 1990 THEY SAY ITS YOUR BIRTHDAY, ITS MY BIRTHDAY TOO, YEAH THEY. You say it's your birthday It's my birthday too, yeah They say it's you birthday We're gonna have a good time I'm glad it's your birthday Happy birthday to you Yes we're going to a party, party Yes we're going to a party, party Yes we're going to a party, party I would like you to dance (birthday) Take a cha-cha-cha-chance (birthday) I would. McCartney's first wife Linda died of cancer in 1998 at the age of 56 after 29 years of marriage.Ī month ago he announced the end of his marriage to second wife Heather Mills, 38. Birthday (Live / 1990) Lyrics: You say it's your birthday / It's my birthday too-yeah / They say it's your birthday / We're gonna have a good time / I'm glad it's your birthday / Happy birthday. Today he and drummer Ringo Starr are the only living ex-Beatles.īut 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 can rent a cottage on the Isle of Wight, if it's not too dear" and "you can knit a sweater by the fireside, Sunday mornings go for a ride". After the encores, McCartney made a surprise appearance, performing the Beatles' song 'Birthday' with Starr's band. Paul McCartney was just 24 when The Beatles first recorded their hit track When I'm Sixty-Four.įorty years on, the former Beatle finally found out the answers to the long list of questions contained in the song as he celebrated his landmark birthday on Sunday.īorn in Liverpool in 1942, James Paul McCartney was just 15 when he wrote the famous song, one of The Beatles' best known, which was later included on the legendary Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album in 1967. On 7 July 2010, Starr was performing at Radio City Music Hall in New York with his All-Starr Band in a concert celebrating his seventieth birthday.