Paul McCartney admits he keeps forgetting Beatles lyrics

The singer-songwriter confessed that he sometimes needs his bandmates to remind him how to play his old tracks during rehearsals

Paul McCartney needs to remind himself how to play and properly sing many of his old Beatles tracks, he has confessed.

“I have to relearn everything,” the musician told The Mirror. “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 also told the newspaper that he firmly believes that most of his back catalogue has stood the test of time, explaining: “Some of the old songs you say, ‘Oh, that’s clever, I wouldn’t have done that’.”

Despite now being 77, McCartney has shown no signs of slowing down in recent months, most recently signing on to write his first stage musical, an adaptation of the Christmas classic It’s a Wonderful Life, and teasing an album of new material.

He is additionally releasing a children’s book in September. Titled Hey Grandude!, it is a picture book revolving around an intrepid elderly explorer who calls himself Grandude, who embarks on incredible adventures with his four grandchildren.