Paul McCartney is another year older and wiser, with the musical legend celebrating his 82nd birthday Tuesday (June 18).
To commemorate the occasion, the Beatles star shared a photo of himself onstage via Instagram. “They say it is my birthday,” he captioned the snap. “I’m looking forward to being spoilt rotten by my loved ones! – Paul”
The night prior to McCartney’s big day, Austin Butler revealed that he’d recently attended a party — which may have been the former’s birthday bash — at the Wings frontman’s house. The gathering was also attended by Ringo Starr, Mick Jagger, Bruce Springsteen, Meryl Streep and Taylor Swift, who at one point DJ’d the festivities, according to the Elvis star.
“That was insane,” Butler told Jimmy Kimmel, who also attended the celebration, on the comedian’s late-night show Monday (June 17).
Kimmel agreed that it was “the craziest party I’ve ever been to in my whole life.”
Four days before his birthday, McCartney and Wings released their new live album, One Hand Clapping. The star also recently unveiled his Eyes of the Storm photo exhibit at The Brooklyn Museum in New York City, featuring a sprawling collection of his own behind-the-scenes snaps from the early days of Beatlemania with Starr, George Harrison and John Lennon.
In November, McCartney unveiled “Now and Then,” a previously unreleased Beatles track recovered from a low-quality tape. The “Silly Love Songs” singer worked with audio specialists to lift Lennon’s vocals from the recording using AI, a process he called “magical” at the time.
“When we were in the studio, we had John’s voice in our ears,” he added in an interview with BBC Radio 1 last year. “So you could imagine he was just in the next room in a vocal booth or something and we were just working with him again … It’s very special for me to be singing with John again.”
