Paul McCartney has confessed that he sometimes struggles to remember how to play old Beatles songs.
The Beatles released thirteen studio albums in their time. Add this to the 25 solo albums and records released with Wings, and you’re looking at 40 albums worth of music. It is therefore unsurprising that McCartney may struggle to remember the odd tune from his vault of songs.
“I have to re-learn everything. I’ve written an awful lot, you can’t retain them all. We go in rehearsal and I’m, ‘Oh yeah, that’s how it goes,’” McCartney confessed to The Mirror.
The Beatles legend may have forgotten how to play some of his old tracks, but that does not mean that he no longer considers them to be good music. When asked if he thinks his songs are “pretty good”, McCartney replied:
“I do, I really do. Some of the old songs you say, ‘Oh, that’s clever, I wouldn’t have done that’. It’s exciting to think that still works. We were a little rock and roll group from Liverpool, it just kept going.”
Currently, McCartney is working on his first musical, It’s A Wonderful Life.
