When I'm Sixty-Four (arr. Leo Silva) by The Beatles Sheet Music for Violin Solo at Sheet Music Direct

Product Details

Artist The Beatles

Score Type

PDF, Included with PASS

Composer John Lennon Paul McCartney

Arranger Leo Silva

Format Digital Sheet Music

Pages 2

Arrangement Violin Solo

Publisher MP Sheet Music

Level 2

Product ID 1742625

Genre Jazz Pop Rock

Instruments Violin

Product Description

"When I'm Sixty-Four" is a song by the English rock band The Beatles, written by Paul McCartney (credited to Lennon-McCartney) and released on the album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, 1967.

It was one of the first songs McCartney composed; he was about 14 years old, probably in April or May 1956. The song was recorded in a different key than the final version; was sped up at McCartney's request to make his voice sound younger.

In 1987, McCartney recalled: "Rock and roll was about to happen that year, it was about to break out, I still had a bit of a cabaret mentality", and in 1974, "I wrote a lot of stuff thinking it would end up in cabaret, not realising that rock and roll in particular was going to happen. When I was fourteen, there wasn't much of an idea that it was going to happen."

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