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When I'm Sixty Four

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Paul McCartney composed this track when he was approximately fourteen years old, likely during spring 1956. The song appeared on the 1967 album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. During recording, the composition was performed in an altered key and subsequently accelerated per McCartney's direction to give his vocal performance a more youthful quality. The arrangement prominently incorporates a clarinet trio.

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