Today's reality check. What Paul McCartney thought his life might be like at 64:
Doing the garden, digging the weeds,
Who could ask for more.
Will you still need me, will you still feed me,
When I'm sixty-four.Every summer we can rent a cottage,
In the Isle of Wight, if it's not too dear
We shall scrimp and save
Grandchildren on your knee
Vera ,Chuck & Dave
And the reality as Sir Paul actually turns 64:
Yesterday, as the former Beatle celebrated reaching the age he immortalised on the Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album, he could reflect with satisfaction on a year in which he made an estimated £48.5m from record sales and a tour of the United States - a welcome addition to an accumulated estimated fortune of £825m. He also, of course, retains a decent head of hair.
