Will you still need me, will you still feed me …
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John Lennon and Paul McCartney wrote “When I’m 64″ which was included in The Beatles’ Yellow Submarine album released in 1969.
Lennon would’ve turned 64 today. But he never got a chance to sing “Will you still need me, will you still need me” to his wife. He was gunned down in 1980.
Of the other three Beatles, George wouldn’t get a chance to sing the line to his wife Olivia because he died of cancer in 2001 at the age of 58.
Ringo Starr is also 64 this year, and while he didn’t get to sing the line to his first wife, Maureen Cox, as they divorced in 1975 and she died in 1994 of leukemia, maybe he sang it to his current wife, former Bond girl Barbara Bach.
As for Paul, he still has two years to go before he turns 64. But then, he won’t get to sing the line to his first wife, Linda, who died of breast cancer in 1998.
In the end, none of The Beatles got to sing the line to the women they were married to when the song was first released in 1969.
Sad …
On a happier note, when J, an Internet acquaintance, turned 64 last year, I emailed to ask if he sang the line to G, his partner, who was away on business during his birthday, and what was the response. J replied that G said, “Yes, oh yes!”
