When I get older: Paul McCartney going strong at 80

Paul McCartney turns 80 on June 18 and a week later becomes the oldest headliner to play at the Glastonbury Festival. There's even been talk of the ex-Beatle being made a lord before the year is out.

Not bad for a kid from a working-class family in Liverpool after almost 60 years topping the charts.

Between his years with the Fab Four, his work with Wings and his solo career, McCartney has written or co-written more than 50 top 10 singles.

During lockdown in 2020, "Macca," as he is affectionately known, recorded "McCartney III" on his own and it became his first U.K. solo number one album since 1989.

McCartney and The Beatles returned to the spotlight last year thanks to director Peter Jackson's eight-hour documentary "Get Back" about the making of their 1970 album "Let It Be."

With a string of 80th birthday events planned in Liverpool, British media have reported that McCartney could be made a peer of the realm 25 years after he was first knighted.

His knighthood from Queen Elizabeth II was upgraded five years ago to admit Sir Paul to the even rarer Order of the Companions of Honor, which recognizes outstanding achievement throughout the Commonwealth.

A source told The Sun newspaper in March that "the idea of offering him the chance to sit as a cross-bencher in the House of Lords has been mooted.

"He has given incredible service to British culture, so it could be a very fitting tribute and mark of all that he has done for his country."

McCartney married his third wife, US heiress Nancy Shevell, 62, in 2011, and has eight grandchildren, who he says call him "Grandude."

The Sunday Times Rich List estimates that the couple are together worth £861 million ($1.03 billion, 992 million euros).

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