Sat 17 Jun 2006
McCartney learns what it's like to be 64
By Adrian Croft
Paul McCartney performs during the 48th annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles February 8, 2006. As a young Beatle, Paul McCartney wondered what it would be like to be 64. On Sunday he will know. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson.
LONDON (Reuters) - As a young Beatle, Paul McCartney wondered what it would be like to be 64. On Sunday he will know.
But far from the enduring love he described when, as a teenager, he wrote the Beatles' classic "When I'm Sixty-Four", McCartney finds his life in turmoil after he and second wife Heather Mills decided to separate after a four-year marriage.
The separation is being played out in the full glare of publicity as intense as anything McCartney experienced during his days as a member of the world's most famous rock group.
Mills, 38, has been the subject of a torrent of tabloid allegations about her past life and has pledged to sue one British newspaper.
"One of the worst aspects of going through what Heather and I are currently going through is the malicious spreading of rumours and made-up facts that is happening in some areas of the media," McCartney said in a recent message on his Web site.
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