Paul McCartney is Bored of Being a Beatle
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Paul McCartney admits he has grown “fed up” of being a Beatle.
The music legend — who recently enjoyed a lunch date with actress Jennifer Aniston — says he often tires of the fame he attracts from being in the 60s band.
“You get fed up being him,” McCartney tells the USA Today newspaper. “You’re always that guy.
“If I was Bruce Springsteen, I might get fed up being Bruce Springsteen. I might want to be the kid I was growing up, when I didn’t have that image to live up to.”
However, Paul insists he still loves playing songs from his back catalog because he is aware his fans will want to hear his biggest hits.
“If I buy a ticket to a show, I know what I want to hear the band play,” he added. “So I start with that – what would I want to hear me play if I was in the audience? Then we start rehearsing stuff I’d like to play or that we haven’t done for a while, or never done. That creeps in.
“We just learned a couple Fireman songs. That’s interesting, because they’re improvisational and you’ve almost got to rewrite them into a shape we can all understand. Say I fancy playing electric guitar – I work in a couple of excuses for that.”
Paul — who is divorced from former glamor model Heather Mills and is currently dating millionaires Nancy Shevel — says he tries his hardest not to pay attention to the intense interest in his private life.
“I’m in the public eye, so you notice my trials and tribulations,” he explains “Most people my age have been through similar things. They’ve lost loved ones. Lots of people have been divorced.
“You have to try to understand it and move on. It’s never easy. How do I do it? I remember the good times.”
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