Get back! 54 years on, Macca revisits teen home
IT’S been a long and winding road but t it’s finally led to the door of his s childhood home for the first time in n more than five decades.
Sir Paul McCartney lived at the house in the Liverpool suburb of Allerton as a teenager and wrote several of his hits there.
The 75-year-old was persuaded to return to film a skit over the weekend with comedian - James Corden for his US chat show.
The former Beatle, now with an £820million - fortune, strolled around his former r home which he last saw in 1964 in what is s said to have been an ‘emotional’ visit.
Tour guides told how Sir Paul gave an n impromptu rendition of When I’m 64 on the piano in the front room. ‘There was a
‘Worried that it’ll be too nostalgic’
coachload of tourists outside, just as there is every day, and suddenly Sir Paul looked out of the window and waved to them,’ said one, Kevin Buckley. ‘They couldn’t believe it!’
Sir Paul moved to the three-bedroom terrace, now owned by the National Trust, with his parents and brother Mike in 1955. A year later, his mother Mary died from breast cancer aged just 47.
In 2013, the music legend was asked why he had not returned. He replied: ‘I don’t know whether I will be a little worried that it’ll be too nostalgic or whether there will be a sadness about it that I don’t associate with it at the moment. But I think I will one of these days.’
In 1964, the singer used earnings from his Beatles success to buy his father Jim a house across the Mersey on The Wirral.