Sir Paul McCartney was a teenager when he wrote the song "When I'm Sixty-Four," and only 24 when the Beatles recorded it in 1967 for "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band."
McCartney's lyrics delivered to the self-consciously youthful generation of baby boomers an enduring if satirical definition what their golden age might be like.
Today, many of those who embraced his vision of enduring love, caring, knitting and puttering in retirement - "Will you still need me, will you still feed me, when I'm sixty four?" - could not have been more wrong.
"The bliss of being with a lifelong partner, as expressed in 'When I'm Sixty-Four,' was shattered by his wife Linda's tragic death. "The little things expressed in the song, such as working the garden and going for a Sunday morning drive, reflects his life with Linda.
But far from the enduring love he described when he wrote the Beatles' classic "When I'm Sixty-Four", McCartney now finds his life in turmoil after he and second wife Heather Mills decided to separate after a four-year marriage.
Paul McCartney who turns 64 today, will find out how far the reality of life is against what he wrote then.
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