Ringo Starr and Paul McCartney pose together in 2016.Photo:Fred Duval/Getty
Fred Duval/Getty
Paul McCartneymay have wanted to share two birthday posts this week, but it made more sense for them to “Come Together.”
The legendary singer-songwriter, 77, took a few moments on Friday to celebrate two very important men in his life on their shared birthday:BeatlesbandmateRingo Starr, and his late father James McCartney.
“Happy Birthday to two of my heroes,” McCartneywrote alongside photos of both men.
“It’s Ringo and my Dad’s birthday so let’s have a great day to celebrate these two great people - Paul”
Throwback image of Paul McCartney’s parents.Paul McCartney/Instagram
Paul McCartney/Instagram
Ahead of his 83rd birthday, Starr caught up with PEOPLE this week to discuss the milestone and hisannual Peace & Love event, during which heencourages fans to spread a little peace and loveacross the globe at noon.
“Nothing makes me feel old. In my head, I’m 27,” he said. “Wisdom’s a heavy word. [Getting older] is what happens, and you try and keep yourself busy.”
“Really without thinking, I said, ‘I would like them all to go, ‘Peace and love,’ at noon on my birthday, 7/7, seventh day of the seventh month,” he added of the tradition, which began back in 2008.
“That’s how it started. We’ve been doing it now for so many years. And now I’ve upped it a bit because I say, ‘You can say peace and love or you can just think peace and love.’ So any way, you’re winning.”
Ringo Starr.Scott Robert Ritchie
Scott Robert Ritchie
Starr and McCartney might beheard on some new music together soonas well, as McCartney teased new Beatles material during an interview withBBC Radio 4’sBest of Todayjust last month.
During the chat, Sir Paul explained that AI was used to “extricate” late bandmateJohn Lennon’s voice from an old demo, and he’s since clarifiedhis recent revelationabout the “final” Beatles record on Twitter.
“Been great to see such an exciting response to our forthcoming Beatles project. No one is more excited than us to be sharing something with you later in the year,” McCartney later wrote to Twitter.“We’ve seen some confusion and speculation about it. Seems to be a lot of guess work out there,” he continued. “Can’t say too much at this stage but to be clear, nothing has been artificially or synthetically created.”
“It’s all real and we all play on it. We cleaned up some existing recordings — a process which has gone on for years.”
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The iconic cover of The Beatles “Abbey Road” album.Apple Corps Ltd.
The song was initially a demo belonging to Lennon, who wasshot and killed in December 1980at the age of 40. “We were able to take John’s voice and get it pure through this AI. Then we could mix the record, as you would normally do. So it gives you some sort of leeway,” McCartney said during the initial interview.
The BBC reportedthe song to be a 1978 track Lennon wrote called “Now and Then,” which he recorded on a boombox shortly before his death and whichYoko Ono, Lennon’s widow, famously gave to McCartney on a cassette labeled, “For Paul.”
The Beatles attempted to record the song in 1995 for their Anthology series, whenGeorge Harrison, whodied in 2001at age 58, complained of the sound quality.
“It didn’t have a very good title, it needed a bit of reworking, but it had a beautiful verse and it had John singing it,” McCartney toldQ Magazinein 1997. “[But] George didn’t like it. The Beatles being a democracy, we didn’t do it.”
source: people.com
