🎹 WHEN I'M 64 🎹 by The Beatles - Piano cover

Описание: I hope you will enjoy today's famous upload - my Piano cover of Paul McCartney's cheerful WHEN I'M 64 from the 196 Beatles' Album 'Sgt. pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band'

All the JANUARY 2026 Friday uploads will be mood-lifting feel good piano music and arrangements that instantly bring a smile and an audible warm fuzzy 'ah' when you hear them. You can find more of my Piano novelty covers in this playlist:

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WHEN I'M SIXTY-FOUR is a song by the English rock band The Beatles, written by Paul McCartney around 1956 when he was 14. Credited to Lennon–McCartney, it was released on the 1967 album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. The song was conceived and recorded in C major, but the final version sounds in Db major as it was sped up at McCartney's request to make his voice sound younger. It prominently features a trio of clarinets 2 x Bb and a Bass. My cover sticks pretty clearly to the original and I have therefore recorded it in Db major and tried to incorporate as much of the fruity Clarinet texture as possible.

The song is sung by a young man to his lover, and is about his plans of their growing old together. Although the theme is ageing, it was one of the first songs McCartney wrote. In 1967, John Lennon said of the song, "Paul wrote it in the Cavern days. We just stuck a few more words on it like 'grandchildren on your knee' and this was just one that was quite a hit with us." In 1972, he added: "I think I helped Paul with some of the words, like 'Vera, Chuck and Dave' and 'Doing the garden, digging the weeds". Lennon's contribution of the children's names were likely made in the studio. The song was nearly released on a single as the B-side of either "Strawberry Fields Forever" or "Penny Lane". It was instead held over to be included as an album track, as well as being included in the Beatles' 1968 animated film Yellow Submarine

With its cheery, optimistic bounce, 'When I'm 64' is regularly ranked amongst the most loved and best remembered songs by the Fab 4

Thank you for listening! - Gareth

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