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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"Fuck that, let them make way for themselves. If they're better than me, they'll beat me."
Twenty years ago, when Paul McCartney turned 50, he remembers his then-manager pushing the idea of retirement. "It's only right," he was told. "You really don't want to go beyond 50, it's going to get embarrassing." In June, McCartney will be 70 ("I'm never going to believe I'm 70, I don't care what you say," he says. "There's a little cell in my brain that's never going to believe that" , and he still has no plans to stop touring or recording. "You get the argument 'Make way for the young kids,' " he says. "And you think, 'Fuck that, let them make way for themselves. If they're better than me, they'll beat me.' Foo Fighters don't have a problem, they're good. They'll do their thing.
"If you're enjoying it, why do something else? And what would you do? Well, a good answer is 'Take more holidays,' which is definitely on the cards, but I don't seem to do that. I love what I do so much that I don't really want to stop. I'm just kind of casually keeping an eye on how I feel, and onstage, it feels like it's always felt. So for the time being, the band's hot, I'm really enjoying myself, still singing like I sang, not experiencing, touch wood, any sort of problems to speak of. If it ain't broke, don't fix it."
It doesn't hurt that his touring schedule has been reduced to shorter, intense bursts in recent years, largely because of his shared-custody arrangement for his eight-year-old, Beatrice. "We don't do the big sloggo tour, we don't do the big U2-Stones go-out-forever thing, and get a bit fed up with it," says McCartney, who's planning some dates for later this year. "What we do now is events and selective dates. Because of my custody situation, I can only do that. At first, we thought, 'Oh, God, is this going to be a problem?' and it's actually turned out to be some kind of a blessing."
He can see himself rocking well into his eighties. "I can imagine it," he says. "As to whether my imagination will come true, I don't know. The last couple of years, I've gotten into guitar so there's all sorts of little things that crop up that entice you forward, and you go, 'Hmm, I'd like that.'"
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"Fuck that, let them make way for themselves. If they're better than me, they'll beat me." (Original Post)
Amerigo Vespucci
Feb 2012
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Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)1. Talent steps aside for no one. There's plenty of room for talent.
No reason to step aside. It's not like a corporate division that can have only a certain # of employees.
Party on, Paul!
Morning Dew
(6,539 posts)2. Now there's a Paul I can support.
rec.
hfojvt
(37,573 posts)3. I stopped needing him about six years ago
But I never did feed him.
Ishoutandscream2
(6,662 posts)4. If you enjoy what you do, then why stop
Good for Paul. He will probably live a much longer life because of his excellent attitude. I'm very envious of that. Again, good for Paul!